I'm impressed with the level of customer support we receive, not just if and when things go wrong. Our customer success manager has given us some excellent advice and examples of how we can get the most out of the platform. The service desk is responsive and Interact are quick to flag any service issues. On a technical level, the intranet has good integrations with some of our business applications (OneDrive, SharePoint), which helps it feel like a natural extension of the productivity tools we already use. The site looks great, is pretty simple to use, and is easy to look after as an administrator.
Product development isn't straightforward - ideas raised via the client site won't always make it to development, and it sometimes feels as if relatively trivial functionality is introduced at the expense of improving longstanding pinch points. Some functionality feels slightly old fashioned, and improvements could be made to make the inbuilt analytics richer, especially as many organisations need to evidence staff engagement and impact of comms. Tools like the calendar are underpowered (users can't create recurring events) and don't match up with functionality available in other applications.
We have a dispersed workforce with a wide variety of role types: we need a space that reflects our shared values, mission and organisational culture, and has information that keeps us going. The Interact site we're using does this well, as it's accessible to all staff and looks fresh and modern.
The ease of use for non-technical people is a great benefit of the system and administrating it is pretty quick and easy, allowing time to be more creative in other areas. It has some wonderful features like the Room & Resource Bookings, Form Approvals, Staff Directory, Teams and Timeline and love the additional quizzes and sports challenges for staff. There is a lot of features for a reasonable cost. The Community pages are great and the Support goes above and beyond.
Some features take a long time to be enhanced/improved which can get frustrating, but I understand that sometimes priorities lie elsewhere. More design flexibility of system and digest in administrator hands would be of huge benefit to adoption too.
Internal communication is always an issue for us as we are a global company and offices can feel silo'd. Interact allows us to easily communicate what we require with added flexibility to hide what we don't wish to show per office. The system is pretty basic and intuitive meaning training and onboarding is pretty easy.