Sqwiggle Online Collaboration Software: A Review
To enhance the power of communication, and to overcome the issue of physical presence overlooking the distance factor, now Collaboration Tools are offering wonderful facilities. Among these latest online collaboration tools, Sqwiggle has made its own mark in bringing people together on a virtual platform.
Intro
Today a strict office time schedule is not sufficing the ever increasing workload, in most cases, the employees have to bring their office work at home. The other scenario which is picking up a fast pace in the modern industries is letting their employees work from home without any hard and fast commitment to report at the office premises at a particular time. But that doesn't mean that the employees are working all alone by themselves. Rather with the latest technological advancements, they are catching up with the team workers better than ever before. With a virtual presence of the team members, now every place can be converted into the office cubicle, where people can conduct meeting, can collaborate, exchange their data, share them instantly and above all feel their presence almost as real, as it is not only a stale avatar or profile picture they would be seeing of each other, but it would be an updated click of every second that passes by.
The software is newly launched by the Sqwiggle Company based in San Francisco, CA, USA in February 2013 by Eric Bieller, Matt Boyd and Tom Moor. It could be one of the ideal social networking collaboration software that allows quick collaboration, video chatting, and file sharing. It gives the users a great working experience where they can meet up people from the same team, they can see and also feel the presence of their colleagues with whom they can interact and collaborate whenever and wherever they are placed. Sqwiggle also extends the facility to talk to many people at a time. You only have to click on their face icons, and instantly join in a group chat. You can even join a chat in the middle of a conversation.Key Features
Continuous Video Conferencing
Sqwiggle stands different from the existing video conferencing applications because of its ability of sending photo snapshots of users constantly that get updated in every few seconds. It is not just static profile pictures or avatars, that they could see of each other, users can also know about their team members who are really working at their computers or in their individual workstations or even through their mobile devices, can talk to them and interact at any point of time. It is almost like being amongst them in the same office room. This brings back that team spirit which was going missing in a work-at-home scenario. It creates a team presence where each team member feels better, and gets a lot of motivation by working with their co-members.
Group Chat and Video
Sqwiggle also gives a chat facility where you can get a preview of images, links, codes and tweets, and every other element. With Sqwiggle, collaboration has become easier and much more effective than the basic text chat features. What more, you can also start a group video without undergoing any hassles of the complicated process of setups and configurations.
Drag-and-drop File Sharing– Sqwiggle is a really effective team productivity tool, where they have thought about the convenience of the users where they can upload a file and instantly share it with their team members with the same interface along with the perfect security. And with the technology to optimize minimal bandwidth, it is efficient even with large teams. It works on the iPad and an API is also available for those who work with integration, apart from the existing integration applications like Zapier, GitHub etc. The primary communication between the coworkers never gets broken, irrespective of where they are located.
Social Network Presence
Stay tuned with your all other favourite social networking sites, while you are logged in Sqwiggle, like Twitter, Facebook, Google+, YouTube, LinkedIn, Target Market. Sqwiggle is also an ideal tool for any company or organization who work with remote, virtual and distributed teams in many branches.
Pricing
The Sqwiggle online collaboration software has one free and two premium plans. In the free plan you get unlimited 1-on-1 video chat, till 5 chat streams, and also a 5GB of file storage.
The Plus plan is available at a price of $9 per month and per user that includes up to a number of 4 group video chats, with unlimited chat streams, a 15 GB storage, and an user and team management feature. The Admin security controls the priority support system. There is also an Enterprise Plan that starts at $25 per month, per user with a 20 GB file storage, and a dedicated support representative along with all other basic features.
Pros
Sqwiggle creates a consistent online workplace for any remote team to come together virtually and work throughout the day.
• One can instantly get to see and hear other members without making any call and share whatever is important with this easy to use application.
• The product uses minimized bandwidth by taking still images in every 10 seconds.
• Users are allowed to create multiple workrooms and share files, codes, photos and videos.
Cons
Sqwiggle interactions are generally for 2 minutes on average in comparison to 27 minutes of Skype.Wrap Up
In a nutshell Sqwiggle brings you the latest advantages of a collaboration software along with every social networking facility, which you can get in quite a reasonable price and even FREE of cost.
