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Overview Presentation
MangoApps is a secure enterprise collaboration platform that aims to provide employees all the tools they need to effectively work together. It is a flexible platform that can be delivered as software-as-a-service on a shared or private cloud, or installed on-premise behind the customer’s firewall. The needs of the workers and the workplace have changed. This online collaboration and social intranet software aims to satisfy these needs which cannot be handled by simple email or other outdated and restrictive collaboration tools. It is a virtual place where people can talk about work and do work at the same time.
Features, Benefits, Product Strengths
Group & Projects, Task Management, Events & Calendar – Users can create and manage as many groups and projects as needed. They can invite unlimited guests to projects that can be designated as public, private, or secret. This becomes the central repository for all project-related documents. The task management features allow users to create, assign and manage unlimited tasks and track its progress from assigning to completion. Tasks can be classified as unassigned, started, finished and with other statuses, and then be searched and filtered according to its status. Users can also create unlimited events, invite guests, and see these scheduled events on a calendar view.
Company Intranet, Social Networking, Online Meetings – MangoApps make it easy to set up a company intranet and create private intranets for each company department. Information, announcements, and policies can easily be shared to all with just a few clicks. No programming is required to maintain the intranet pages. It also offers secure social networking and integration with LinkedIn, so users can transfer their existing profiles or start from scratch. It uses 256-bit AES encryption and other advanced security options. However, it also provides instant connection with online meetings, IM and group chat options.
Idea Management, Wikis & Documents, Multi-platform – The enterprise collaboration software can hold the place for the company’s brain storming sessions. With multimedia features, users can attach images, videos and other files for clarity and greater presentation. Others can vote for or against the idea that can be tagged and searched easily. Also, approved ideas can be converted to projects. Users can store and share different types of documents and create wikis using computers, mobile devices, tablets or smart phones. Cloud subscribers can even choose the location of their data centers.
Pricing
MangoApps unified collaboration platform is offered as a shared cloud application in three plans. The Basic Network plan is completely free for unlimited users. This free plan already includes a private, secure enterprise social network, company and department intranet pages, project management, task management, document management and more features. The Business plan is priced $5 per user per month or $50 per user annually. All the basic features are included with the addition of video conferencing, MS Office and Outlook integration, choice of data center, support and 10 GB storage space per user. The Enterprise plan is priced at $8 per month or $80 per year per user with 20 GB storage space per user and more advanced security features. Private cloud and on-premise deployment is available for 50 or more users.
Social Network Presence
Twitter
Facebook
Google+
YouTube
LinkedIn
Target Market
MangoApps online collaboration and social intranet software can be adopted by a company of any size, although it targets the mid-sized enterprise market. With its affordable plans and a wide range of deployment methods, it can be used by startups, geographically dispersed teams, departments of large companies, international non-profit organizations and public or private institutions.
Supported Languages
The software supports over 250 languages. Users can submit translations with an inline translation voting system.
Some of their Clients
Clients include Panasonic, Sony, Christie’s, Arizona State University, United Way, NTT Data, Fujitsu, Infosys, UNICEF, Everest Business Engineering, IDG, and Regernersis.
Testimonials
Jim House of United Way described as wonderful the ability to set up groups and projects and then add external users. He is also impressed with excellent support and quick response times on tickets.
Brad Ehlert of Burnham Holdings liked that its features combine file sharing, intranet pages, knowledge base, project management, and discussion groups all in one application.
Why MangoApps
The modern work environment needs modern tools that are intuitive, collaborative, and comprehensive. MangoApps is a unified intranet and collaboration platform with these characteristics and has helped more than 10,000 companies streamline their communication, improve their teamwork, and boosted productivity.
Company Info
MangoApps is built by MangoSpring, Inc., a communication and collaboration solutions company with offices in Bellevue, Washington; London, Great Britain; and Pune, India. It was founded in 2007 by Anup and Christina Kejriwal and Vishwa Malhotra. Frustrated with a lack of good collaboration tools at work, they set out to build an enterprise social networking platform that makes it easy for teams to work wherever they are. What started as an enterprise group IM application in 2008, under the leadership of CEO Anup Kejriwal, the enterprise social collaboration suite MangoApps is now at version 8.2. The company continues to be dedicated to its goal of making work life easy by providing employees a single tool for all their communication and collaboration needs.
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