Huddle as a SharePoint Alternative

There are many apps out there today that claim to be a SharePoint Alterative but most just don’t make the grade. Huddle is one of those that do offer a real viable alternative. Huddle is a collaboration and content management application suitable for enterprise.

When SharePoint was first released it was one of very few document management tools. These days however many competitors have sprung up such as Huddle. It is a lot more agile than SharePoint with feature and bug updates released every few months, compared to years with SharePoint. In an ever changing technological world, quick updates are crucial. Customers want to be able to work faster, more efficiently and be able to integrate different applications to work better together.

Huddle satisfies these needs. The tool incorporates all the features that can be found in other content management and collaboration tools, whilst providing it in an easy and simple to navigate user interface. Huddle is also available as a mobile app for iPhone, Blackberry and Android. It also integrates with social networking sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Ning and Xing. You can also download desktop apps from the huddle.com website, which has plug-ins for Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint and open API’s.

There is also a Huddle SharePoint Connector which joins up separate instances of SharePoint allowing external users to use either their own SharePoint site or Huddle to work together.

Huddle also has its benefits when it comes to cost and installation. With no large upfront investment needed and truly ‘out of the box’ usability, Huddle offers a powerful solution, with great ease of access and which is ready to use straight after sign up. The cost is based on a monthly fee of $15 per user meaning you are not tied into a long term commitment. It also means that the Huddle tool is scalable for growing companies and large corporations.

In comparison, SharePoint is very complicated and can involve huge costs, making it viable only to corporations with mega IT budgets. The costs involved are the initial hardware costs and often the cost of hiring the suitable staff needed to set up and configure SharePoint servers for the company. The high level investment needed makes it a longer term commitment and so reduces a firm’s flexibility.

So as time has moved on and technology has improved, agile, more intuitive, competitive alternatives, led by Huddle, have emerged offering tools just as powerful but at a lower cost.