uKnowva is an enterprise collaboration platform that boasts of extensibility and loads of customization options, in addition to its host of features. However, there are 2 strong contenders who can stop uKnowva from making it big in the market. These are SharePoint and uKnowva. Let's see how they compare with each other:
| Source Code and Ownership | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parameter | Sharepoint | Yammer | uKnowva | uKnowva Advantage |
| Licensing | Proprietary license | Proprietary license | GPL License | With uKnowva under GPL license, MPA becomes the owner of the code deployed @ MPA's premise unlike the other proprietary license which do not allow you to change anything in their code as per your requirement or will. |
| Ownership of source code | Is with Microsoft | Is with Microsoft | Is with the end user, .i.e., MPA | uKnowva is open source. So, with uKnowva, if you plan to do some development at your end itself, then it is surely possible as you become the owner of the source code as soon as the code is depolyed in your premise. With proprietary licesnsing model, it is not possible to do so, you are vendor dependant. |
| Platform Independence | Sharepoint is Microsoft centric, so to run Sharepoint you have to use Microsoft platforms only and each one has its own licensing cost | Yammer is Microsoft centric, so to run Yammer you have to use Microsoft platforms only and each one has its own licensing cost | Platform independent | uKnowva can run on any OS like Linux, windows, etc. It is completely platform independent |
| Cost Effectiveness | With proprietary licenses and other supporting software licenses, proprietary solutions become very expensive | With proprietary licenses and other supporting software licenses, proprietary solutions become very expensive | Since uKnowva is platform independent and is under GPL license, it is truly a cost saver for any organization | You end up paying more and getting less at the end of the day in case of propreitory softwares, which is completely vice cersa in GPL License |
| Readiness for use | Sharepoint is available as a framework; to make use of it for any application, you need to first devlop the complete application and then you can deploy and use it | Yammer is available as a framework; to make use of it for any application, you need to first devlop the complete application and then you can deploy and use it | uKnowva can be deployed and started for users within 48 hours | So, within 48 hours, you can start using all in built features of uKnowva, i.e., Knowledge Management, Document Management, Social intranet, Calendars, Chat, polls, etc. |
| Ready add ons | Most of the add-ons for such software have a licensing cost in themselves and are not readily available for use | Most of the add-ons for such software have a licensing cost in themselves and are not readily available for use | uKnowva has many addons like Project management, Lead management, etc that can be easily installed by just click of a button and most of them are free | We have a separate Extension store where many extensions are listed which can be easily installed by click of a button. Visit our extension store: https://uknowva.com/extensions |
| User experience | Most of these software still have many primitive UI elements for select list, radio buttons, etc. hence resulting in poor user experience | Most of these software still have many primitive UI elements for select list, radio buttons, etc. hence resulting in poor user experience | uKnowva has its own library for latest UI elements which provides rich user experience in terms of look and feel as well as functionality, thus resulting in a great user experience | The UI of uKnowva is the crux of the product and it uses the latest HTML5 / CSS3 based technology which makes the application very user friendly and responsive |
| Ease of Administration | To Administer Sharepoint, you need a skilled resource separately | To Administer Yammer, you need a skilled resource separately | It can be easily administered by any person who knows how to use a browser | uKnowva's configuration and administration options are so user friendly that any person who knows how to browse a website can easily administer it |
| Ease of Development | You need specially trained resources to develop in Sharepoint | You need specially trained resources to develop in Yammer | PHP developers can easily develop applications in uKnowva | uKnowva is built on PHP, so anyone knowing PHP can easily program / alter uKnowva based applications |
| Integration capabilities | Being Microsoft dependant, such software provide integration support only for Microsoft-based applications | Being Microsoft dependant, such software provide integration support only for Microsoft-based applications | Easily integrates with open source as well as proprietary softwares | uKnowva is platform independent and hence can integrate with all kinds of application. For Example: When you are using sharepoint, etc. AD integration is easily possible, but integration with OpenLDAP (which is an open source alternative to AD) is difficult, but both can be easilty integrated in uKnowva |
| Support | Support is very dependent on Microsoft/vendor | Support is very dependent on Microsoft/vendor | Support is directly from developers and it is not vendor dependent | uKnowva is developed by Convergence IT Services PVT LTD. Having their team on board, you can be sure of excellent support as the main developers themselves would be assisiting you for any technical support. If you have an inhouse support team for PHP, then you can easily support the application by yourself, this makes you vendor independent |
| Features | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Features | Sharepoint | Yammer | uKnowva |
| Social Intranet | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Knowledge Repository/Discussion Forum | No | No | Yes |
| Documents Repository | Yes | No | Yes |
| Project Management | Yes | No | Yes |
| Polls | No | No | Yes |
| Company/Employee Directory | No | Yes | Yes |
| Extension Store | No | No | Yes |
| Instant Messaging | No | Yes | Yes |
| Third Party Integration | No | Yes | Yes |
| To-Do List | No | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic Notifications | No | Yes | Yes |
| Mobile App | No | Yes | Yes |
| Access Control | Yes | No | Yes |
| HRM | No | No | Yes (available as an extension) |
| CRM | No | No | Yes (available as an extension) |
| Employee Calendar | No | Yes | Yes |
