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There's been a few questions about Unily and how they compare to LiveTiles. I found this article which outlines some differences and advantages LVT has over Unily.

Granted ContentForumla are a LVT reseller, so the option may be slightly biased. But some good insight none the less.

https://www.contentformula.com/blog/unily-competitors/



Five ways Wizdom is different to Unily
Of course, every product has its own particular features and there are several ways in which Wizdom is different to Unily and indeed some of its competitors.

1. Wizdom is a ‘SharePoint native’ application

One notable difference between Unily and Wizdom is that Unily is not actually built using SharePoint, it is a separate application that simply uses SharePoint to store data. Unily leverages a third-party CMS technology called Umbraco. Conversely, Wizdom’s base technology is SharePoint itself and it works within SharePoint. This may seem very technical but Wizdom’s native approach brings a number of benefits that are very tangible both to the intranet manager and the end-user:

• Wizdom’s close alignment with SharePoint and Office 365 means that many Office 365 features are available right within Wizdom. For example, when you want to build a page or news article with Wizdom you have access to all the SharePoint widgets (known as ‘webparts’), the Office 365 widgets and of course the Wizdom ones. This gives you a lot of power. Want to build a page with a left-hand nav, FAQs, video, social feed and org chart? No problem!
• As a general rule, when Microsoft brings out a new integration between SharePoint and Office 365 that integration is immediatelyavailable with Wizdom. This is unlikely to be the case with Unily and you will have to wait for Unily to build the integration into their platform.
• Wizdom leverages SharePoint Modern’s editing interface. This is a pleasure to use. It’s fast, intuitive and carefully thought through unlike the old SharePoint Classic editor experience which can be pretty clunky.
• If you want to build intelligence into your pages, such as workflows or automation you will find it much easier with Wizdom because of its SharePoint native architecture.
• Extending Wizdom is also a lot easier. You won’t have to go to the Wizdom vendor or partner to do this. You could get your own developers to do it. This is because effectively you just have to extend SharePoint. This is one of the key things that SharePoint was built to do.

2. Wizdom’s Power Panel

Wizdom’sPower Panelis consistently singled out by digital workplace teams (but also users!) as one of the stand-out features of the platform. It is a unique, configurable personalized toolbar that can

link through to different applications, create content, display data and even expand to a dashboard, that can also follow you application to application. This means you have a true gateway to the entire digital workplace, from wherever you are.

3. Collaboration governance

Wizdom has industry-leadingcollaboration governancehard-baked into the product that means you can control your collaboration platform to avoid site sprawl, drive adoption and provide best-in-class collaboration templates to use for different scenarios.

Wizdom’s powerful collaboration provisioning engine is super-flexible, allowing you to create custom workflow and approval for site creation, enforce polices such as naming conventions, establish central directories of sites, allow different tools (MS Teams, Yammer groups, Wizdom communities etc. ) with different templates to be set up for different users and more. If for example you’re rolling out MS Teams, Wizdom’s features helps make your platform easier to manage and more sustainable going forward.

4. Integration with Teams

The world seems to be leaning on MS Teams right now and in some organisations that is where the work really happens. Wizdom for Teams is an app that installs inside Teams and brings the core elements of your intranet into the Teams environment. This means you get access to your powerpanel of tools and links and things like news, all targeted and personalised to the user. This all means employees have less places to go to access all the information they need. If sections of your workforce are spending all their time in Teams then this is an essential capability to help drive intranet adoption.

5. Unique employee directory software

When Wizdom was acquired by LiveTiles it opened up additional functionality to Wizdom customers. One of the most unique is the AI-driven employee directory software that identifies where there are gaps in your employee directory and AD data, and then uses bot technology to ask individuals to fill in the gaps. This unique approach is extremely effective, driving richer and more complete employee profiles and also better content targeting on your intranet. You can expect to see more LiveTiles products come on board that operate seamlessly with Wizdom.