Love Skykit!
Avantages
I love that it is directly integrated with G Suite and Google Slides, Drive, etc.
Inconvénients
My only complaint so far is I can't figure out how to add things that will auto-update, like the current date and time for example.
Used to be better
We loved it at first. It was a great way to showcase content to our office and keep them informed on updates. The last few months of using it, though, it became more of a nuisance than anything.
Avantages
It's fairly intuitive and the UI is nicely designed.
Inconvénients
The syncing from Google Slides to Skykit used to be a lot better. My office used Skykit for about 2 years, and in the last several months Skykit stopped registering the updated slide's changes. You would see the update in Skykit when you looked at the slide, but then when it played on the screen it would be the old one. Eventually I realized that the publish date was still the old one, and I figured out a workaround where had to go in and change the length of the time the slide would play. Only then would the system register the updates and publish with the new content.
The other con is the playlist functionality is quite klugy. It takes forever to move slides around because the screen lags and doesn't place them where you're aiming your mouse. It also doesn't scroll with your cursor, so if I wanted to move a slide way farther up on the playlist, I could either move it up only 5 at a time, or I had to zoom way out on my browser.
SkyKit Review
Overall it has been pretty easy to setup and implement. It seems to be a bit harder to troubleshoot and manage, with a lot of maintenance having to be done on the SkyKit side, and not as much management and control on the administration side as a customer.
Avantages
The best thing about the software is its scalability as well as its ease of use.
Inconvénients
The fact that I am not able to centrally manage the chrome OS side of the chromeboxes that are used to run the SkyKit Content. The SkyKit Content however I feel can be expanded with extra features that can help with organization of displays, better content management within the console, as well as better overall performance improvements with content getting updated.
One of the best overall CMS.
I have beat up on a lot of CMS systems in the past year. SkyKit is very user friendly. It has a 5-five tech department. Between Customer Service and DevOps. They are on the for front of making Content Management easier than any others out there. You can tell that they believe whole heartily in SkyKit; and it shows in everything they do. From taking request and fixing problems. Even the most trivial is not over looked with them.
I enjoy that the people are not one to ask for help from others in their own company; instead of giving you a blank answer that raises more questions.
We are currently swapping our old outdated CMS for SkyKit and the transformation is seamless. If you even want that down home feel from an advance CMS Company? SkyKit is for you.
Respectfully,
Theodore "Ted" Burch
Technology Support Technician
Avantages
The help that comes along with it.
Inconvénients
What I have least liked about it. SkyKit has or is fixing as I type this.
Skykit Platform Review
Our experiences in schools and small businesses has been overall very satisfying.
Avantages
The integration between Google accounts and their CMS portal is great. As people get more comfortable with Google: Docs, Sheets, and Slides, having that integration makes building presentations very intuitive and easy.
Inconvénients
Having a live display of what is broadcasting, kinda like a hub view of the different screens would make this software better. Relying on what the "content" is titled and visual checking of screens is a bit annoying.
Awesome
Everything that I do in my job at school is working really well. Awesome software :)
Avantages
Skykit is a really good program to use. It's so easy to understand the program and works great with the projects I work on at work.
Inconvénients
The software sometimes could be really slow. I dislike that it signs me out of it so many times during the day.
High School Teacher
Avantages
Easy to use for the kids and myself. I like the fact we can schedule content for the future. I also like that multiple people can add content from anywhere.
Inconvénients
There needs to be a way to sort content into folders within the site. It gets to be a lot when you have to scroll to find content we have used in the past. Also, be careful of the remove/trash can buttons they move around and you may accidentally delete a playlist you have spent tons of time creating.
Napa Valley College went from a complex system to a very easy to use and user friendly.
Avantages
Napa Valley College like the most of skykit is how easy the system is to use. the end user who use the system didn't have to have IT back ground to use skykit.
Inconvénients
After using skykit, Napa Valley College would like to see a couple of more option added to the system. the ability to have video streaming, would be a great option to have because different departments could stream classes, show, guest speakers through out the campus.
Best user interface of any CMS. Easy to use with powerful features.
An easy solution for our customers
Avantages
Simple user interface, yet lots of features. Completely responsive design that can be controlled from a smartphone as easy as a laptop.
Inconvénients
A little pricey for the market but when you add in all of the news and weather feeds the price balances out. It would be good to offer a cheaper version without the feeds for users that don't need them.
I love Skykit!
We communicate important and fun information in our break rooms. Some of our locations don’t have time so I’m able to manage for them quite easily.
Avantages
Ease of use, ability to display individualized content along with common material. Programs and playlists save me so much time and duplication of effort.
Inconvénients
The only con, which is not a big deal, in my opinion is that the automatic update doesn’t work for us. It could be our set up (lots of restrictions)
Great Media Broadcast System - with steep learning curve
We have been quite pleased with the overall experience. We do find that our audience takes notice of the media feeds and really like the ability for multiple users to manage content.
Avantages
One of the biggest pluses of the software is ease of access from any web-enabled device (and by multiple users). This allows for updates on the fly from just about anywhere and the speed with which programs update is impressive.
Inconvénients
The learning curve with the interface is fairly steep and not as intuitive as it could be. While there are good "help" resources on the site, understanding the differences between programs, content, etc. isn't as obvious and organizing material is a bit clunky. The way the software platform is sorted out makes for some trial and error to understand the workflow.
Flawless Tool
We have been using SkyKit for well over two years now. With the current setup we are able to easily update content and slides with zero interruptions. It is very reliable and super intuitive.
Avantages
Zero downtime,
Very easy to use.
Quick and easy setup
Inconvénients
No Cons.
Easy to Communicate
Super easy to use and control content. Look slick.
Avantages
I love these sky kit TVs. We have a few offices and we have found our younger workforce doesn’t like reading email so we have to be creative in getting information out. Sky Kit TVs are in our break rooms and key visible locations. We used them to promote things like holiday parties, visitors, open enrollment, contests etc. it’s one part of our comprehensive communication channels. We create all our documents in power point on our branded templates and then convert to pdf to ensure formatting stays intact.
Inconvénients
We couldn’t figure out how to run videos with subtitles. That’s ok.
Great digital signage platform
I have worked with the development team and been amazed at the future development. This is the easiest platform to navigate and use with most amount of features while keeping things simple.
Avantages
Ease of use
Inconvénients
Could be more logical in the order menus are laid out and need a search function for tenants along with better portrait zone layouts.
Overall great product
At first it can be confusing to know the difference between playlists and programs. But once I got that down it was easier to learn everything else. One thing that can be frustrating is that skykit makes a copy of your slides and uses that instead of the original document. I never fully understood why this was the case. I also know for us we had to make multiple copies of the same program because we wanted it to play multiple times between other parts of the playlist. This can be a bit time consuming to edit since we have to edit multiple instances of the same document to make it consistent throughout the program.
Avantages
Great way to keep our company updated about current events going on in our organization.
Inconvénients
It can be confusing to navigate through sometimes, I never remember off the top of my head the difference between playlists and programs. I have to click on each one to see if it takes me to where I am wanting to go.
SkyKits!
Allows us to display company changes/events/client showings etc. Devices again are incredibly simple to use =)
Avantages
Overall easy access/control of these devices. Especially for individuals who are not tech savvy, they are able to manipulate the device to their liking
Inconvénients
Overall nothing to mention. Typically systems are hard to access/change settings, but Skykit resolved that issue
SkyKit Review
Avantages
Skykit is very easy to use, and to me seems very self explanatory in terms of functionality and use.
Inconvénients
I would like to be able to see a live screen preview, that way you could see that changes have happened and also see what's being displayed on the screen right from a home screen dashboard or something of the sort.
Skykit is a Great Product and a Great Value
We have been using Skykit for displaying slides and video content since October of 2016 in all of our pizza shops (22) and recently added a display to our coffee shop. While there is a bit of a learning curve to using the web-based CMS system for managing the displays and content, it really is easy to use once you understand the basic concepts and workflow.
Support has been fantastic and quick to respond and fix any problems we've run into. I really appreciate that Skykit is constantly being improved and feature requests are actively solicited from customers and taken seriously.
I highly recommend Skykit!
Avantages
Easy to use. Clean, simple interface.
Inconvénients
Could use some improvement in sorting and filtering of content elements. It can be cumbersome finding the element you want to edit or the display you want to manage.
User Friendly
Avantages
Ease of use is amazing. Our students can use this with no problem
Inconvénients
Would like more "periodic" training on new features
A Promising and Powerful Piece of Software
We are very pleased with the pricing and the ease of use of the interface of SkyKit. The ability to link with Google Drive and edit slides and presentations on the fly is very helpful when trying to train and give access to a number of different people. Very easy to use and train on. To be completely transparent, we are currently experiencing some issues with one of our particular usages -- but tech support has been great in helping us out. I feel great confidence in the SkyKit team and the future development of the product.
Avantages
The user interface is simple to understand and use. It's ability to link to Google Drive is a huge plus. It allows non-"power users" to use the software.
Inconvénients
For our particular usage, scheduling date-specific content out for the entire week is a cumbersome process. There is no batch upload. Also, the playlist functionality is currently having lots of hiccups. We have to manually set it every day.
Great product that does the job well.
Great product that does the job well. A little tricky to use at first but once you get to using it on a consistent basis it flows well. I use the Chromeboxes from Skykit and it is just plug in and go! I would definitely recommend the product.
Avantages
Plug & Play. Comes pre-loaded with everything I need. The Chromebox form factor is easy to place.
Inconvénients
I find the cloud application a bit confusing until you learn the "jargon". I think it could be layed out in a more intuitive way.
Skykit
Avantages
Easy setup easy to use. Straight forward platform with a high level of functionality.
Inconvénients
The having to publish each time any action is done. should be able to directly upload to program and then item is added to the content list as opposed to vice versa.
Looses connection occasionally and have to refresh. Email should be sent notifying the moderator of such outages.
Great solution
It's been great, easy to use and we have it deployed world wide, support is excellent, helpful and fun!
Avantages
Ease of use, adding and maintaining content
Inconvénients
Sometimes the boxes don't cycle through the playlists properly(or at all) frustrating to say the least. Would love to have the ability to reset the content cache with out a ticket. Also permission levels would be great.
Easy to use
Avantages
Skykit is easy to use and the integration with Google Slides makes it simple to ensure things are branded correctly.
Inconvénients
I wish that gifs were supported - not a huge deal but would be nice
Monitor for lobby
Only scratch the surface of all the features you have. I'm sure I would learn more if I had the patience. We just leave it on and let it run. :/
Avantages
Ease of use.
Inconvénients
Not comfortable making changes.
Great support. We love it.