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HCL Connections Reviews & Product Details

Connections delivers a collaborative platform that keeps your employees connected and engaged. Connections helps create a personalized, well-designed, digital office with role-based content and tools to keep your teams focused on achieving business goals and objectives. Connections offers a cohesive framework based on transparency, engagement, application interoperability and knowledge transfer. Connections focuses on how your employees actually work, not on tools and applications, and integrates seamlessly with existing applications to breakdown these silos. It puts people, not content, at the center of how your teams collaborate. Facilitate rich interactions and learning opportunities between leadership, management and employees. The built-in features of Connections allow for two-way communication, giving employees a voice and managers real insight. Count on enterprise-grade security and control, whether in the cloud or on-premises. You can customize levels of access to content and files for both internal and external users, and the robust security and privacy features ensure effective compliance and lower risk.

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HCL Technologies

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Product Description

HCL Connections has exponential ROI: increased employee productivity, improved HR efficiency, reduced IT costs.

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Daniel Allen (Customer-driven marketing and business development professional)

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

4 months

Return on Investment

18 months

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HCL Connections Media

HCL Connections Demo - Create Flexible Workspaces for Your Teams

Communities organize your teams and content around common goals or projects to get work done faster and create a natural collaboration channel for team members.

HCL Connections Demo - Integrate the Power of HCL Connections with Microsoft 365®

Leverage the value of your Connections people-powered communities and content into your Microsoft tools.

HCL Connections Demo - Get Your Projects Done on Time

Huddo Activities Plus provides project management tools to assign tasks, share activity progress, and display the status of every project in real-time.

HCL Connections Demo - Gain Immediate Access to Relevant Information

Orient Me delivers a personalized homepage bringing your most relevant tools, apps, and updates right to you.

HCL Connections Demo - Go Mobile - Work From Anywhere

Access Connections content on your iOS or Android mobile device

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Verified User in Food & Beverages

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/26/2021

"HCL Connections"

5/5

What do you like best about HCL Connections?

I like how easy and efficient it is to communicate with other users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCL Connections?

I dislike the help support, takes too long to get answers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ajinkya B.

Senior Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/15/2020

"HCL Connections review"

4.5/5

What do you like best about HCL Connections?

HCL Links is an awesome tool which allows us to create tags to any section and kind of the material by these positive comments, that also greatly makes it easier to find websites with contacts, promotes a better workflow and simultaneously saves a considerable amount of time, that exclude that it is possible to view official documents within and through this platform with sophistication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCL Connections?

As significant drawbacks to the HCL connections, we can describe that the quest for linkages is incredible poor, it often fails to perform this function, once data enter this platform, if you have a clear relation, or if you do not have a structure to assimilate it into this service, you will never find it again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering HCL Connections:

In both fundamental ways, it is an incredible tool that is very good for organizations, in partnership with the social networks system based exclusively and mainly on business, as the software helps you perform ones tasks by involving those who are correct to produce highly-importanceful results for you in your business, not exc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HCL Connections solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use the HCL Connections service in sales and digital markets, because it gives us the possibility to publish through its platform to buy more products from customers focused on this section of the browser, in general terms, because it is premised on a lesson of social media, and yet mainly business, so that we receive a great return on investment from the green market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Louise F.

Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/2/2020

"A versatile support for all work areas of your company."

4.5/5

What do you like best about HCL Connections?

This software maintains the accessibility of creating user profiles that are of utmost importance for the operators who are registered in these facilities, as it allows us to find and connect individuals and show where they fit in a particular organization, being a very useful tool, to the daily performance that each company executes, through the network, including its totally reliable and easy-to-use virtual meeting room programming, this peculiar feature being one of my favorites at a general level, in relation to HCL Connections. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCL Connections?

The screens of the interactive operations carried out through this software are not so explicit and do not provide a good perspective, in terms of graphic resolution, including their support functions, as they are not very intuitive and some processes that They are carried out with this software, they require some tutorials or simply the necessary learning for the effectiveness of a particular job, emphasizing that it presents several failures and errors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering HCL Connections:

It is very suitable for the saturated work in the committees of a company, including organizations that maintain multiple departments that need to create transparency in their operations, as this software goes to solve all these needs, since it adapts to each work environment , offering tools that will allow you to drastically increase the collaboration of your company to surprising levels and never seen before, which proposes extraordinary and very effective results in your executive processes, HCL Connections performs both in production areas up to high-ranking boards in the company they own. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HCL Connections solving and how is that benefiting you?

We can make it known that we use this software throughout the organization, since its uses are versatile, and adapt to all labor and executive fields of the corporation, being a quite considerable and useful feature, since it is promoted from, editions , sharing document versions instead of nefarious enduring processes through emails, allows us to make reports at a general level, for the various situations that arise and even daily progress obtained in productivity and advances, and among many others functions with which we use this system, solving large-scale needs, which is a sophisticated program, to increase the labor collaboration of our entire business establishment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/15/2021

"HCL Connections - so so experience"

3.5/5

What do you like best about HCL Connections?

Has several integrated features - could be useful if managed properly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCL Connections?

Everything is somewhat disoriented and jumbled. You don't get to make the most of the tools because they're not properly laid out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering HCL Connections:

Make sure you have IT staff who is prepared to handle the layout and functionality because if features are not properly integrated, nothing works well together. It has great functionality if it's well managed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HCL Connections solving and how is that benefiting you?

It handles employee engagement which is great as we move to a more remote platform across the board. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pamela S.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/14/2020

"HCL Connections a multifunctional tool."

4.5/5

What do you like best about HCL Connections?

HCL Connections' mobile consumption is very good and is improving rapidly over time, as new versions for mobile devices are being integrated monthly, which means a significant advance in these installations, which fixes the errors, and adds new functionalities each time these modernization are carried out, which means a constant improvement in the servers of this application, accessing a better source, faster and more comfortable to work, from anywhere, with internet connections. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCL Connections?

Specifically, this system has flaws, it is in its user interface, since it needs a better design, to make general changes, since currently its main facilities transmit an incoherent perspective and of a very low technological range, when we go to modernization , highlighting that it acquires old aspects in its dynamic illustrations, also lacking colors for a striking appearance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering HCL Connections:

HCL Connections is ideal for environments where self-service is supported and the end user wants a well-structured content storage interaction, to ensure the data that must be encrypted, to later be processed and used, including that this software also adapts to extract knowledge from emails received in your mailbox, through this medium, or alternative documents that are also usually very useful for an analysis of a whole system or some peculiar social network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HCL Connections solving and how is that benefiting you?

We implement this system for a more strategic and fluid collaboration desire, so that most of our teams can increase their productivity skills and offer a more significant performance at business scales, highlighting that thanks to this service we acquire a better exchange of knowledge, to establish a unique and engaging position in the cloud, highlighting that it addresses different problems in each of the departments we have available, but mostly we use HCL Connections to massively disseminate information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

John M.

Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/2/2020

"Connect with HCL Connection and live a unique and irreplaceable experience."

4.5/5

What do you like best about HCL Connections?

HCL Connections is an amazing tool that allows you to add tags to any page and sort the content according to these compliments, which greatly facilitates the search for websites with relationships, promoting a better fast workflow and at the same time a Significant time savings, without excluding that the viewing of office documents is possible within and thanks to this platform, with sophisticated environments, and with consistent, extraordinary and adaptable functionalities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCL Connections?

As significant disadvantages about HCL Connections we can describe, that the search for connections is incredibly poor, it commonly fails, once the data enters this platform, you never find it again, unless you have a direct link, or a system to integrate it with this service, to exercise this function formidably, but in the same way, it can be an annoying inconvenience in large qualifying quantities about the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering HCL Connections:

It is an excellent platform in both fundamental senses, which are very useful for companies, both in collaboration and the system of social networks based solely and mainly on business, with business amplitudes, since the software will help you to do your work by engaging the right people to deliver results, which are extremely important to your business establishment in large proportions, not excluding that it is cloud-based and promotes a solid exchange of knowledge and decisions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HCL Connections solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use HCL Connections in the sales and digital marketing departments, because it allows us to enter publications through its platform, to acquire more purchases of our products, by customers who are concentrated in this part of the web, at a general level, since its system is based on a class of social networks, but based mainly on business, which allows us a good source of income due to the great features and tools that this software contains, which are not of immense help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ray H.

Systems Analyst

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/23/2020

"A large-scale communication flow."

4.5/5

What do you like best about HCL Connections?

I feel like it in great quantity due largely to its general ease of the design it contains, most of all in its navigation in the very simple system, underlining that the newsfeed function conveniently adds to the organization, updates from the communities, without exclude that the various applications that this integrated software acquires can be used for various purposes, since creativity helps a lot to establish what type of information can be useful for the pedagogical benefits of a company, which is one of the characteristics that most calls my attention. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCL Connections?

It would be a good update, which will improve the way in which HCL Connections works with images and media, as this is the area where you should focus on modernizing the program to improve the product, underlining that knowing different websites can be overwhelming with all the unnecessary options it offers, which is sometimes confusing when we do a search in this way and the option we are looking for does not appear. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering HCL Connections:

Connections are totally useful between those who are in the company and in the field as such, especially if it contains employees geographically dispersed throughout a nation, being an excellent tool when a department or a business establishment needs to share large amounts of information , to other organizations or agencies that contain internally in their workspace, highlighting that HCL Connections is designed for large companies looking to save time with these social and collaboration-based solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HCL Connections solving and how is that benefiting you?

HCL Connections is used throughout our organization as an essential tool to keep everyone internally well informed about any new news that occurs in the company, which most employees must know to have a synchronized work order, since this software allows us that members of different departments can join different communities, with different people, with the same interests, and in the same way to create and keep up to date with the next events to be held. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sjill E.

Analyst

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/19/2020

"Connect in an easy way from different areas for effective collaboration in communications."

4.5/5

What do you like best about HCL Connections?

First of all we can emphasize that I like this software since the security features it contains are excellent, which transmit confidence when carrying out work on this platform, including that the connections provide a unique place to store project documents, or In the same way, they can be images and emails to collaborate in real time with their teams, guaranteeing an incredible work set that accesses an extreme and great fluidity, mentioning that it has a very easy-to-use design, which those new to the system can get to understand your tools quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCL Connections?

They have numerous disadvantages presented in their system, that is, they lack many essential functionalities that they must have in this branch that acquire options similar to that of software, one of these indeterminacies that they obtain are surveys and forms, which are basic tools and very necessary, including the notifications of the emails arrived in the inbox, highlighting that it does not have them in availability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering HCL Connections:

HCL Connections is designed and created for the adequate adaptation for larger companies that need to seek to save time with social and collaboration solutions, for a greater performance in the productivity of each of these highly developed business establishments, which have multiple departments of different statistics and who really need to create transparency in each of these, having recommendable rights on a virtual scale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HCL Connections solving and how is that benefiting you?

Connections is used on a large scale throughout our organization, being very flexible since it is available to us from an internet browser through the cloud, in short, this software is the tool we use to connect and collaborate in various areas, which are, project management, knowledge management, and collaboration and exchange of ideas, highlighting that it also covers virtual rooms to communicate, with commercial objectives, which is an option that is frequently used in my company's facilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ethan M.

DevOps Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/2/2020

"Excellent easy corporate social platform."

5/5

What do you like best about HCL Connections?

HCL Connections is a simple collaboration product providing various new unique functionalities for easy coordination with an organization.

The tool provides a secure channel for quick sharing of different important documents, ensuring that all the documents are very well updated.

HCL Connections is also a great management tool for real-time communication within the organization and it allows the user to simply upload various photos on the platform.

Video conferencing is amazing with the tool and the best on effective real-time chatting and documents editing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCL Connections?

The tool usage learning is almost very simple to any user, and they offer training help online through various methods. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering HCL Connections:

Very powerful tool for easy and fast collaboration on different things with different members or groups and excellent on information sharing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HCL Connections solving and how is that benefiting you?

Contact and documents management.

Great collaboration environment.

Sharing of different folders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.