Shelf Erfahrungen

Excellent resource for maintaining quality control and communication across our organization

Kommentare: My overall experience with SHELF has been incredibly positive. First and foremost the customer service and personal attention has been wonderful. I never go more than a few hours without answers to my questions and they are always ready to listen and work on any issues I am having no matter how minor. I really feel like they take their clients wants and needs into account as they develop updates and the response that I have gotten from my own organization has been overwhelmingly positive.

Vorteile:

This software is incredibly user friendly and I have really appreciated the ability to create separate libraries for all of the different stakeholders in my organization. It makes the navigation of the resource super intuitive for my staff and allows everyone to put their hands on what they need exactly when they need it. The ability to store and share a multitude of different file types as resources has also been invaluable.

Nachteile:

There is not much I don't like about the software but one update that I am eagerly anticipating is the ability to upload and have a master copy of a resource in my organization library and have it replicated in other libraries. This will cut down on the amount of uploads and also allow us to have stronger version control on resources that we use across the organization and across our different regions.

Excellent Knowledgebase Management Tool

Kommentare: I have been using Shelf for a long time and I am extremely impressed with its knowledge management and content organization capabilities. The software allows for quick search and categorization of all our files and information. This greatly reduces time and improves efficiency because there is no confusion about outdated or incorrect material. It is easy to manage permissions and sharing. My company likes to use it to onboard new employees since it is easy to set up a series of well-documented product and training guides. Overall, it's an excellent knowledgebase management tool and the Shelf team has been very supportive.

Vorteile:

The product is intuitive and straightforward. Shelf provides admins with detailed analytics and control features. It also integrates well with the other applications that my organization uses. For typical users, the software's design as well as search make finding documents quick and seamless.

Nachteile:

The knowledgebase management tool is great for any textbase documents, but it lacks features that can be improved if it offered better functionality and scaling of specific file types.

Cloud Based Knowledge Management System

Kommentare: We wanted a product that would help us manage our knowledge better. The product is good , but the overall speed / refresh rate is poor in-spite of us using more than 50 mbps.

Vorteile:

The search features , quick customer care responses and online tutorials.

Nachteile:

The speed and the sense that they were learning the functionalities of the product on the job.

The Best Knowledge Base Software

Kommentare: SHELF has been great! Before SHELF I created a website knowledge base for us to use, noting my website didn't have a good search feature, the ability to create folders, nor the real feel of a knowledge base. Getting SHELF helped us finally step into the real world of knowledge bases, and the work they have put into this web based software is superior. I am enjoying my time with it, and the ease of use of SHELF has made it an outstanding product.

Vorteile:

One of the features of this product is its online! I love the option of having it web based, and not downloaded onto your PC, giving access where ever I go. The Ease of use is fantastic! It doesn't take much to learn, and has the ability for anyone to be able to pick up and use. If you are familiar with social media (Twitter for example) you will feel right at home with the hashtag feature.

Nachteile:

The only issue ive had with the software would be, my agents didn't care to much for the intergration with NiCE Incontact. We tried this and the window would be to small or to big, causing the agents frustration when answering calls. It would always pop up, and the agents would of liked the ability to be able to click it when they need it, instead of the popping up with every call.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: HubSpot Marketing Hub und LiveAgent

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Shelf: The ease of use! the others didn't have the robust features we need like SHELF had. SHELF was easy to use, and it just had better layouts than the others we looked at.

Shelf Partners with OPEX

Kommentare: Great team to work with and I look forward to the next several years of this partnership.

Vorteile:

I love the application, but I really love the partnership I have with my Shelf Team. They have been a great resource for us building this tool.

Nachteile:

Honestly I have not found anything I don't like. It's easy to manage and build.

Shelf is a real game changer

Vorteile:

I use Shelf mainly to bundle internal knowledge and make it available to other departments and external providers. I especially appreciate the versatile and yet simple use of Shelf.

Nachteile:

For me there is no contra in the use of Shelf. Before we used another knowledge management tool which I was not convinced of in many points. Shelf on the other hand has everything I expect.

Our 'walled garden' called Shelf

Kommentare: We were searching for a archiving solution that would package our company's offline and online resources (designs, documents, ideas, etc.) into a value add, easy to find, easy to use tool for our customers. Shelf provided the exact solution. Similar to how Google provides valuable search options, Shelf give us (the originator) a way to package resources and then offer in a secure walled off 'garden' , so our customers can 'harvest' those resources.

Vorteile:

Having a "Google like" (search by tags) generated system of classifying and organizing online/offline content onto one cloud platform is transformational. By allowing the end user (in our case, customers) to search via tags, then find>view>download any and all content relating to our relationship with them, the overall 'findability' and value of our resources increases expotentially. The value increases because it's not just sitting in some obscure Dropbox, it's growing and being harvested in "our walled garden" by our customers. For genre specific content, we can upload new content, tag with appropriate genre related tags and automatically 'push out' the material. Soon as the tags are applied, then all members of that genre have access to the material AND are automatically notified. Versus the old method of copy>paste individual files into each customer's Dropbox folder. The thumbnail display, which is truly amazing, provides a visual reference to the items searched for and shortens the final mile of the search to the speed of light. Tagging is an art and Shelf customer onboarding walks you through the learning curve (changing from the file folder based system).

Nachteile:

Still working on versioning, but the workaround works for us.

Shelf helps our marketing team be more collaborative and efficient

Vorteile:

- Shelf is great for project research and managing advertising versions and sales collateral for our marketing team - Easy to organize various iterations and revisions with custom and company tags, badges, groups, organization library, folders, etc - A powerful search tool that keeps what the team needs within reach. We can search inside documents & images and filter by version, date, users, content type and even different locations - Shelf has been an Evernote replacement for our team. It's a much easier and intuitive way for marketing and product teams to collaborate on content research.

Nachteile:

Cons; would like to see an integration for Slack. Our team uses Slack and it would be helpful to be able to pull in our attachments and links into Shelf so we have a more comprehensive experience.

Great experience, friendly, knowledgeable, no sales pressure which was AWESOME and APPRECIATED!

Kommentare: Easy CMS for users with NO TECH experience. Deepens our value to our members by providing not just our content but valued content from external sources in 1 easy to find, easy to search, and easy to share online platform.

Vorteile:

We like the ease of sharing files and different resources across our membership. The ease of adding both internal content via OneDrive and external content with their Web Clipper is not found on any other product. Having the ability to customize user groups with specific roles in their group is a great feature. Allows us to promote people to roles in a group but not on the overall platform. The ability to make certain things public and certain things private allows for easy sharing and linking from website and social media. The search feature is the most impressive feature, allowing users to search from a wide variety of content across the entire platform. Don't forget about the ability for authors to get emails alerting for new comments to easily respond and address certain questions.

Nachteile:

The lack of a built in CRM tool and/or linking via api keeps the product from certain users but is the best CMS on the market.

Unique

Vorteile:

Shelf lets me put everything in one place and synchronize with other apps like Dropbox. It has a slick interface and was easy to learn. It's nice that I have both private areas and areas that I can share with an organization. I like how the tags work.

Nachteile:

I haven't really found any big downsides with Shelf. My main online storage areas are Dropbox and Google Drive and those are covered. It does take a little playing with Shelf to understand how to maximize its benefits, but there is good customer support available. My questions were answered quickly.

Shelf Knowledge Management

Kommentare: Overall it has been a very smooth process, the staff are friendly and approachable, the system works well and is consistently being improved.

Vorteile:

Shelf is easy to use both for agents and admins. Working in a regulated industry where processes can change frequently and significantly it's of vital importance that our front-line agents are kept up to date with current processes. Using other knowledge management solutions we found that usage was not as high as we would have liked, that we were unable to track who was and wasn't looking at articles and when articles were no longer in date. Shelf resolves these issues in straightforward and convenient ways.

Nachteile:

It can be difficult to get some front end elements to appear as desired and additional options such as carousels or accordions would be useful.

Great Product and sevice

Kommentare: Shelf has helped out customer service operation drive real impact to our customers globally. our agents are able to navigate interactions with customers much easier, find useful information at a touch of a button and also improve the overall quality of their interactions with our customers and clients.

Vorteile:

Shelf is a very user friendly product , easy to set up, easy to maintain and delivers real impact

Nachteile:

there aren't any areas of shelf that I do not like

Vital Team Resource- Saves an incredible amount of time and helps foster internal/customer insights

Kommentare: I've used Shelf for over 3 years now, and was blown away at the level of personalized assistance for helping me to set up a virtual company "library," as well as provide me with tips, tricks, and ideas for leveraging the software to achieve multiple knowledge sharing goals. I rely it it daily to act as a collection hub of collaborative information for special teams and projects, and as the best way to allow my team to "be on the same page," and have access to all the most recent studies, trends, decks and pertinent industry articles and data sources. No more searching on shared drives, or trying to figure out where someone may have filed something that contains multiple flavor, channel, food types. Just file, tag and go. It's our internal company "Google."

Vorteile:

I've worked with Shelf for 3 years now, and they are constantly upgrading the software capabilities to increase ease of use, and enhance our ability to use the platform in many innovative ways to both share and find information quickly internally, as well as house best practice materials that we can share directly with customers.

Nachteile:

The one function I could use most would be a "batch tagging" capability, which they have been working on.

Overview of Experience with Shelf

Kommentare: The benefits are agents/supervisors being able to see processes and guidelines in a timely manner to provide accurate information. In addition, we also provide documents to assist with our QA program (i.e steps to a collections call, welcome call, etc). Provides steps to have a better flow and also show agents how to be more "customer centric" to provide better customer service. Assists our learning and development to create training documents, save "good/bad" calls based on call types/scenarios to reference for future training classes or agents that have opportunities to grow.

Vorteile:

The ease of loading/updating a document and making it accessible to our agents. Enables agents to reference policies and processes quickly to provide optimal customer service and resolution to customer concerns. Searching for a document is easy. Providing invites to new agents/users is very simple to do. Creating folders to organize information is simple.

Nachteile:

The issue i have is Shelf may have issues recognizing certain formats such as some PDFs, Excel. Basically, it may not recognize a document that can be updated (i.e. an excel sheet). Doesn't seem to like docs that aren't static.

Status quo - using Shelf

Kommentare: I really love to work with Shelf. I think it is modern design, easy to use and really good search-function.

Vorteile:

I really like how easy it is to create and manage content in Shelf. It is also easy to invite new users, create usergroups and change userroles. Maintenence function with directly feedback from user is so good and help us to structure and document all kind of changes we do. I think the sync between Feedback and CPW could be better, because you need to be an collaborater to solve the connection between feedback/publish function. Maybe it also is because I do not know how i should use it correct, though..

Nachteile:

I miss the possibility to create a even more personal business layout at the front page. I want to explain for all the users how Shelf is build for our company, how you should use it and it when they should use it. I also miss an function where you can assign GEMs directly to owner of the document. For example there should be an function when you create a GEM to select an user who is responisble for keeping that document up to date or that other people in the organization could know easier who is responsible for this manual/routine.. Now they only can see who's created or last changed the document.. That is not good enough for us so we have started to use the category-function for assignee different document to different "users/teams/departments"

So much is great, and everything else is up for discussion!

Kommentare: Shelf offers us exactly what we need: an internal knowledge base that is easy to update and maintain. Many different teams use Shelf to store their resources, and I find it very easy to separate all the info into the right libraries/categories.

Vorteile:

Love: The different kinds of gems, especially decision trees; it's so easy to format it exactly the way you want; the templates and accordions are very helpful; the Insights feature; the Announcements featureLike: The Libraries; User Groups/Org Units; it's very easy to customize who gets access to view which features (for instance one team might get to view Announcements data but not Insights data)

Nachteile:

There are sometimes bugs with formatting that make it difficult to work. (Full disclosure: They are always very timely and helpful in resolving the bugs.) I don't agree with this, but many of the agents who use Shelf struggle with the search algorithm; when they use a search term to find something specific, the result they want is sometimes the 3rd or 4th result, not the 1st.

Shelf - It's easy

Kommentare: We use shelf everyday and that speaks for itself! This product, along with it's support staff, has always been a VERY positive experience.

Vorteile:

Like my title says. It's easy! My reasons: Easy to use; easy to maintain; easy to get support; easy to collaborate; easy to find your information; easy to add remove access; easy to create either a basic post or a complex decision tree; easy to see usage statistic. Easy to collectively work together to have a solid knowledge base. I have not discovered anything in shelf yet that is frustrating. I know shelf is working and it's currently the best tool that we've used so far as a knowledge base because of one aspect, our agent are using it and frustration with knowledge base products is non existent.

Nachteile:

I have not explored every feature shelf can offer because of our organization needs, but so far I love everything about shelf.

Content Management for Newbies

Vorteile:

For a person who is fairly new to content maintenance platforms, Shelf is very easy to use. Even as an Administrator user, I enjoy the capabilities of being able to track the number of interactions other users have with certain content. The Shelf team also does a great job of constantly making new enhancements to the software so the user experience is always improving.

Nachteile:

Since many features are interconnected, sometimes electing to only enable certain features can be difficult. Because all Shelf features are not applicable to us, we try to only use what makes sense to use, but when certain features have to be enabled in order to get others to work, this forces us to go through additional steps we may have wanted to avoid.

User Friendly with Great Features and Functionality!

Vorteile:

The top 3 features of Shelf for CMDW, Inc include Sync, Search and Sharing. Shelf syncs with Google Drive and Dropbox to help users better organize and access files. Once files are synced, users can search for files via keyword(s) - even if you don't remember the title or when it was created. It's quick and easy to drag and drop files or folders to an updated private or shared folder from there (or simply leave in the current folders, as Shelf retains the original filing properties/locations during sync). Shelf is already setup with four permission levels - along with a "groups" feature to making sharing at specific access levels a breeze. I should also point out that Shelf works well with all types of files and media, including documents, audio, video and more - which is especially important for the creatives on our team! There are plenty of organization and collaboration tools out there - I've tried several, but Shelf has hit the UX (user experience) nail on the head. It's visually appealing and less intimidating for my clients and team members who are less tech savvy. The onboarding process for me was actually pretty fun. The demo was informative and tailored to my unique organizational needs. Customer rep really listened to my challenges and showed me how Shelf can solve many of our current problems. I'm really excited to finally have a functional solution for file management. No more lost hours searching and starting over from scratch!

This is not a drill: A user case that lead to early adoption

Kommentare: Using Shelf in support of my consultancy/advisory tasks related to the development of an incubator hub in Belgrade, Serbia. Tasks require a lot of information coming in and out and disseminated to a wide variety of management, staff and stakeholders. We have been extremely glad to get our hands on the program. Not only does it support our organizational ethos of trying out new information technologies whenever we can and as they become available, its also been ideally suited and fit for our purpose. Its really smoothed and integrated our workflows and was just what we were looking for.

Vorteile:

Shelf is really easy to set up and get going very quickly and is incredibly intuitive to use. Its a great tool not only for managing knowledge inputs in a wide variety of formats but also for group and task based working. The web clipper is great for capturing information on the go and actually a lot of fun to use. The file permissions system is super efficient for setting up and breaking down work/interest groups. It ensures everyone gets what they need to know and gets a chance to appropriately share and contribute. Its strongly supportive of the informational needs of the multi layered management structure of the organization as well as for disseminating information and updates to its general membership and stakeholders.

Nachteile:

Although its already integrated with the three most important cloud storage sites and we hear more are on the way, we've already become firm Shelf fans and will continue to use so we'd like to see some fast-tracking so more become available sooner than later. We also hear email integration is on the way. Right now and until it comes, it would be useful for user email lists to be generated internally.

Shelf has been helping us avoid some costly mistakes.

Vorteile:

Shelf makes it easy for us to capture content using the web clipper and then forget about it until we need it again. The search features make it easy to locate stuff without knowing the name or the exact folder location. They have tags, a tag library and customized badges.

Nachteile:

I wish the web clipper enabled us to capture slideshare presentations and podcasts. I wrote to their customer service team and they said that it was in the works.

Easy to use platform for busy teams

Vorteile:

From adoption the platform was noticeably very clean and unique in terms of design and I felt like I had a direction immediately. Many other tech apps are stressful to adopt and you are never quite sure you are utilizing the most important features. Not only was it easy for me to figure out, but getting my relatively small team on my Shelf was just as easy. We created our own folder structure to suit our needs and organization preferences and everything has been smooth and I can find everything I upload very easily, especially when I know who uploaded it.

Nachteile:

I wish we can collaborate on documents inside of Shelf, but there really is not much a problem because they integrate with Google Drive directly so we can just upload it after.

Shelf Admin Experience

Vorteile:

As an Admin for Shelf, there are always improvements in the pipeline and we are made aware of improvements that are live or will be live soon. Feedback is definitely always welcome with Shelf.

Nachteile:

From an admin perspective, I would love to see the ability to make custom reports in shelf.

Team Leader of Customer service

Kommentare: With Shelf I'm solving everyday issues that occurs with our partners and clients. Shelf helps a lot to secure crucical informations at the moment.

Vorteile:

With Shelf I'm solving everyday issues that occurs with our partners and clients. Shelf helps a lot to secure crucical informations at the moment. Its helpful and easy to use for all agents.

Nachteile:

So far i did not noticed any missing featuers on this program.

Shelf usage

Vorteile:

It is easy to use; There is a possibility with CRM integration; Wide range of functions related to knowledge base management.

Nachteile:

Sometimes it takes some time to create decision trees, but I believe it is a force of habit.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Guru

Warum Shelf gewählt wurde: It was a company's decision.

Zuvor genutzte Software: Helpjuice

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Shelf: It was a company's decision, don't know :)