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Virola Messenger

Score8.5 out of 10

2 Reviews and Ratings

What is Virola Messenger?

Virola Messenger is a corporate messenger for secure team collaboration.

Both self-hosted and cloud Virola servers are available.

Main features:

  • private and group chat rooms
  • file transfer and unlimited storage
  • reactions, mentions, replies and discussions
  • continuous voice and video meetings
  • voice meetings recording
  • live avatars
  • issue tracking with task board
  • screen sharing
  • remote control
  • meetings scheduling
  • flexible permission framework

Client apps for major desktop and mobile operating systems are available.

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Virola Messenger desktop and mobile client apps
Issues and discussions in Virola Messenger
Virola Messenger mobile client app
Task board in Virola Messenger
Screen sharing and remote control in Virola Messenger

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Top Performing Features

  • Chat

    Instant messaging tool allows users to communicate with select other users in real-time threads.

    Category average: 8.8

  • Video files

    Supports video file types

    Category average: 7.6

  • Audio files

    Supports audio file types, such as .mp3, .mp4, and .wav

    Category average: 8

Areas for Improvement

  • Task Management

    This includes the ability to plan, track, collaborate and report on tasks.

    Category average: 7.7

  • Mobile Access

    Mobile access is the ability to access the software from a smartphone or tablet.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Search

    Users can search for related materials across files, discussions threads, schedules, etc. using project keywords or tags.

    Category average: 7.5

Brings an office together, even when the employees are remote

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

With the pandemic, our office was looking for a messaging platform that could connect all of our employees so we could have conversations. Emails were not effective, and text messaging was not great either. Virola Messenger was a platform that we used, and it is great. We could create chat logs, allowing for both formal and informal conversations between employees out of the office. Unlike text messages, we found the ability to turn conversation points into "issues" to address was a great unanticipated feature. We could create action lists from our conversations within the program. Also while we could screen share prior, being able to do it within the same program was great.

Pros

  • Messaging
  • Creating Action Lists
  • Screen Sharing

Cons

  • A cleaner interface.
  • More intuitive for older generations.
  • Customizable notification tones

Most Important Features

  • Messaging
  • Making Action Lists
  • Screen Sharing

Return on Investment

  • Kept everyone in the loop
  • Allowed for seamless project discussions from inside and outside the office.
  • Great way to share screens which was very important.

Other Software Used

Zoom, Microsoft Teams

An effective and secure messenger tool for your teams and organization!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Virola is one of the newest and very handy collaboration tools or messengers I have used in the organisation to enable effective communication among teammates, colleagues, and peers for secure chats and discussions and efficient file transfer and resource sharing among cross-functional teams for business purposes. It is really user-friendly and lives up to expectations.

Pros

  • Secure chatting
  • Chatrooms
  • File transfer/ sharing

Cons

  • better Data management enhancements
  • efficient chatting/messaging features
  • integrations

Most Important Features

  • Data security
  • chatrooms
  • price
  • resource sharing

Return on Investment

  • better communication
  • task scheduling and management
  • data security

Alternatives Considered

Slack

Other Software Used

Slack