HCL Connections vs. Microsoft Viva Engage

HCL Connections

52 Reviews and Ratings

Microsoft Viva Engage

324 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
HCL Connections	Score9 out of 10	N/A	Connections from HCL Technologies (formerly from IBM, acquired by HCL in 2018) is a collaboration tool and employee digital workspace with key features like social analytics, blogs, document management, and a social network.	N/A
Microsoft Viva Engage	Score7.8 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft Viva Engage, formerly Yammer, is used for private communication within organizations or between organizational members and pre-designated groups.	$24 per year per user

Pricing

HCL Connections

Microsoft Viva Engage

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Microsoft Viva Employee Communications and Communities: $24
per year per user
Microsoft Viva Suite: $144
per year per user

Pricing Offerings
HCL Connections	Microsoft Viva Engage
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Microsoft Viva Engage is also available in some Microsoft 365 packages.

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	HCL Connections	Microsoft Viva Engage
Considered Both Products	HCLSoftware Jeremiah Miller Associate Director IT Infrastructure in Information Technology at Mennonite Central Committee (Non-Profit Organization Management, 1001-5000 employees) Chose HCL Connections IBM Connections offers a complete package of tools that can be useful but it doesn't integrate well with other services. Competitors like Yammer offer slightly fewer features but are cheaper and much easier to maintain. If we were making a decision today we probably would … Incentivized Helpful? Victor Toal Chief Solutions Architect in Information Technology at ToalSystems (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose HCL Connections Better integration points with third party products, most functionality is part of the core product. Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft Ilya Popovich QA Test Lead in Quality Assurance at Action-MCFR Mediagroup (Information Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Microsoft Viva Engage Yammer created very important and reliable social network across the whole company. We used to have MS SharePoint, but since Yammer became available via Office 365 we moved to Yammer. IBM Connections is difficult to maintain + costs are higher. Incentivized Helpful? Jeremiah Miller Associate Director IT Infrastructure in Information Technology at Mennonite Central Committee (Non-Profit Organization Management, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Microsoft Viva Engage IBM Connections has a more mature set of features however it is expensive and difficult to maintain. Traditionally IBM Connections require an on-premise installation which required a large capital investment and an ongoing level of expertise to maintain. Although now IBM offers … Incentivized Helpful? Tom Krühlmann Zero Email evangelist in Corporate at Atos (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Microsoft Viva Engage blueKiwi : yammer does well in terms of user experience, initial ram, up, but less so in total feature set Jive: since Yammer is SaaS, some customers will be unable to use yammer Sharepoint: although not a direct competitor, Microsofts own solution has some overlap on Yammer as … Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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Features

HCL Connections

Microsoft Viva Engage

Comparison of Project Management features of HCL Connections and Microsoft Viva Engage
Feature	HCL Connections - Ratings	Microsoft Viva Engage 5.4 41 Ratings
Task Management	00 Ratings	6.025 Ratings
Gantt Charts	00 Ratings	7.013 Ratings
Scheduling	00 Ratings	3.019 Ratings
Workflow Automation	00 Ratings	2.021 Ratings
Mobile Access	00 Ratings	8.039 Ratings
Search	00 Ratings	8.039 Ratings
Visual planning tools	00 Ratings	4.023 Ratings

Comparison of Communication features of HCL Connections and Microsoft Viva Engage
Feature	HCL Connections - Ratings	Microsoft Viva Engage 7.6 44 Ratings
Chat	00 Ratings	8.040 Ratings
Notifications	00 Ratings	7.044 Ratings
Discussions	00 Ratings	8.043 Ratings
Surveys	00 Ratings	6.034 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase	00 Ratings	9.033 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting	00 Ratings	7.314 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts	00 Ratings	6.713 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook	00 Ratings	8.632 Ratings

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of HCL Connections and Microsoft Viva Engage
Feature	HCL Connections - Ratings	Microsoft Viva Engage 5.0 37 Ratings
Versioning	00 Ratings	7.025 Ratings
Video files	00 Ratings	5.032 Ratings
Audio files	00 Ratings	4.030 Ratings
Document collaboration	00 Ratings	1.031 Ratings
Access control	00 Ratings	3.031 Ratings
Advanced security features	00 Ratings	5.028 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive	00 Ratings	8.014 Ratings
Device sync	00 Ratings	7.024 Ratings

User Ratings
	HCL Connections	Microsoft Viva Engage
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (20 ratings)	7.0 (54 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	7.7 (7 ratings)	6.9 (10 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (4 ratings)	8.0 (4 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (1 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	9.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (4 ratings)	7.0 (12 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (2 ratings)
Implementation Rating	7.3 (1 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	7.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)