Klaxoon
Klaxoon helps organisations work better and boost team engagement. With a unique range of 10 collaboration & productivity tools, Klaxoon empowers employees to drive high levels of participation in and beyond meetings, boost productivity and shape an innovative workspace for workers anywhere.
Features
- Infinite Digital Whiteboard including mindmapping features
- Interactive presentation tool for meetings & training
- Live polling & audience-engagement tool
- Mobile learning & Gamified courses
- Survey & Quiz builder
- Infinite group workspaces
- In-app library of +150 templates
Benefits
- Turn hybrid meetings into engaging teamwork moments
- Achieve high levels of participation with small & large audiences
- Run efficient and fruitfull brainstorming sessions synch & asynchronously
- Accelerate decision-making with real-time feedback collection
- Centralise and keep track of your project deliverables progress
- Ease cross-team communication both in and beyond meetings
- Improve training outcomes with gamified mechanisms
- Save time with ready-to-use templates
- Optimise IT budget with 9 tools embedded into one platform
Pricing
£25 a licence a month
- Education pricing available
- Free trial available
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
2 6 8 4 5 8 6 1 4 1 7 7 2 3 8
Contact
Klaxoon
Harry Harvey
Telephone: 07798641727
Email: harry.harvey@klaxoon.com
Service scope
- Software add-on or extension
- No
- Cloud deployment model
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- Public cloud
- Private cloud
- Service constraints
- Since Microsoft announced the end of support of Internet explorer 11, Klaxoon no longer support this browser.
- System requirements
- Browser: Chrome, Firefox, Edge, or Safari
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- Questions are answered in a minute or less from 8 am GMT to 2 am GMT on weekdays
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- No
- Phone support
- No
- Web chat support
- Web chat
- Web chat support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support accessibility standard
- None or don’t know
- How the web chat support is accessible
- Web chat is accessible via the website or the mobile app.
- Web chat accessibility testing
- None
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
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Klaxoon offers you a comprehensive offer of support on which you can build your success:
Onboarding: via self-services ressources and weekly instructor's led webinars (free of charge).
Account Management: our Customer Success Managers (CSM) team is your single point of contact for the duration of the plan. CSM provide guidance and share best practices to drive your project to success exploiting usage data, industry benchmarcks and product expertise (included into every plan - premium services extra)
Training Services: via our Consultant team, we provide ad-hoc workshops, full training program & certification according to our client's needs (specific sizing & extra cost).
Change Management services: via our Consultant team, we also provide tailor-made services to help our client implement participative and highly collaborative methodologies in their meetings & trainings (specific sizing & extra cost).
Custom services: via our Consultant team to answer specific client needs (specific sizing & extra cost). - Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
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There are complimentary ways to onboard new users in Klaxoon:
Welcome Tour: contextual pop-ups appear in the platform to 1st-time users to present key elements of the interface
First Step: user guide based on use case with a step-by-step approach is also available in the product.
Video tutorials
Help center: most frequent questions asked and relevant answers, with a search engine to quickly find the info you need.
Discovery sessions: instructor-led webinars are sheduled on a weekly basis
Custom onboarding path: co-designed by our CSM team and the client to best fit the end-users needs (limited to enterprise plan)
Training plan: Klaxoon can also provide remote or onsite training workshops. - Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
- HTML
- End-of-contract data extraction
- At any given time, users can extract their data in several different formats by using the export button
- End-of-contract process
- At the end of the contract, licences can be renewed or terminated.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Supported browsers
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- Microsoft Edge
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Safari
- Opera
- Application to install
- No
- Designed for use on mobile devices
- Yes
- Differences between the mobile and desktop service
- Klaxoon works the same way on mobile and desktop
- Service interface
- No
- User support accessibility
- WCAG 2.1 A
- API
- Yes
- What users can and can't do using the API
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Klaxoon provides APIs to integrate Klaxoon further into your ecosystem, whether you're an IT professional or not (via Zapier app). Klaxoon's API are available from our Developer Platform, centralizing access and relevant documentations.
Multiple API allows to connect third-party products or services to Klaxoon and exchange data programmatically (API Board, Embed API, Results API).
We also provides Enterprise API's (limited to Enterprise plans): Audit Logs API allows monitoring of specific events happening in the client's Klaxoon environment; SCIM API allows seamless provisioning, management, and de-provisioning of Klaxoon user accounts within a company using the SCIM protocol. - API documentation
- Yes
- API documentation formats
- HTML
- API sandbox or test environment
- No
- Customisation available
- Yes
- Description of customisation
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Klaxoon provides several possibilities of customization within it's platform:
Branding - add your logo to the Klaxoon homepage
Graphic design themes - Klaxoon provides specific services to design and integrate tailor-made graphic design skins for some of its tools (Adventure, Mission, Board - extra cost).
Templates - All Klaxoon activities can be turned into a template.
Security - Advanced settings are available for security features (Enterprise plan only).
Scaling
- Independence of resources
- Klaxoon cloud platform is scalable by nature. A supervision team is in place to analyze traffic and load-balancers are used to optimize it. In addition, in order to ensure a consistent performance and support increase in customer demand, sizing is anticipated and planned to meet medium and long term growth needs.
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- Yes
- Metrics types
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Klaxoon provides a comprehensive set of metrics to both user and admin roles.
Each activity provides metrics to its owner (participants, engagement rates, number of interactions, scores)
Each admin console have a dedicated insight page with individual and collective consolidated usage metrics (active users, audience, distribution of activities). - Reporting types
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- API access
- Real-time dashboards
- Regular reports
- Reports on request
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- None
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- No
- Datacentre security standards
- Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
- Penetration testing frequency
- At least once a year
- Penetration testing approach
- Another external penetration testing organisation
- Protecting data at rest
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- Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v3.0
- Physical access control, complying with another standard
- Encryption of all physical media
- Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
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- Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
- Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
- Equipment disposal approach
- Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001
Data importing and exporting
- Data export approach
- Depending on activities, users can export data in various formats: CSV, JPG, PDF, or KLX (Klaxoon proprietary format that can be stored and shared for import in Klaxoon). Each activity is separately exportable.
- Data export formats
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- CSV
- Other
- Other data export formats
- JPG
- Data import formats
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- CSV
- Other
- Other data import formats
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- JPG
- GIF
- PNG
- Office Suite Files ( Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace documents)
- SVG
- MP4
- KLX - Klaxoon proprietary format for sharing files in Klaxoon
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- Data protection within supplier network
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- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
- Klaxoon annual availability rate commitment is 99%, excluding scheduled maintenance time. The observed annual availablility rate is above 99.5%.
- Approach to resilience
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Klaxoon cloud platform infrastructure offers automatic horizontal scalability and high resilience, critical software components are redundant on separate servers.
Klaxoon service instances (application and data) are distributed across multiple availability zones. If a disaster impacts an instance, another instance in another availability zone will handle the requests. The failover is automatic.
Moreover, Klaxoon incrementally backs up transactional data several times a days, and the entire platform every 24h. Backups are also distributed and encrypted, they are stored for 4 weeks. - Outage reporting
- In case of outage, stakeholders may be notified by email, depending on the severity of the incident.
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
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- Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
- Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
- Management and support access to Klaxoon infrastructure is limited to a specific IP address range in HTTPS / SSH mode and performed with strong authentication (dedicated password policy, centralized digital vault and MFA).
- Access restriction testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Management access authentication
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- 2-factor authentication
- Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
- Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
- Dedicated link (for example VPN)
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long user audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- Users contact the support team to get audit information
- How long supplier audit data is stored for
- At least 12 months
- How long system logs are stored for
- At least 12 months
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- No
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- Yes
- CSA STAR accreditation date
- 30/01/2024
- CSA STAR certification level
- Level 1: CSA STAR Self-Assessment
- What the CSA STAR doesn’t cover
- N/A
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- No
- Cyber essentials plus
- No
- Other security certifications
- Yes
- Any other security certifications
- SOC 2 Type II
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- Yes
- Security governance standards
- Other
- Other security governance standards
- SOC2 Type2
- Information security policies and processes
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Klaxoon has implemented and maintains a comprehensive information security policy consisting of several policies applied to security controls implemented throughout the organization.
The structure of security policies is based on the ISO 27001 standard and the ISO 27002 best practice guide, as well as the best security practices of the most reputable cloud providers.
Changes to policies are made periodically, to ensure that it is relevant to the evolution of Information Security risks. They are validated by the management.
Security governance:
A Security Committee is in place and meets at regular intervals. It is responsible for approving the security policies and their evolutions, and for making arbitrations at a strategic level.
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Configuration and change management approach
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Klaxoon Change Management Policy is inline with ITIL referential and compliant with SOC2.
The request management process follows a workflow: requests are tracked from the time they are submitted to their validation for production (formalization and registration of the request, scheduling, testing, impact analysis, rollback procedure, etc.), assessment of the request, validation or refusal, implementation, monitoring of the impacts/benefits of the change, and closure of the request.
Throughout the process, security impacts are assessed to ensure that a change to one or more components does not give rise to a vulnerability or impact the availability of services or platform. - Vulnerability management type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Vulnerability management approach
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Klaxoon's Vulnerability Management Policy is proactive and based on:
- Software and infrastructure components monitoring for known vulnerabilities and obsolescence, alert mechanism is in place;
- Active security watch (CVSS, editor alerts, specialized press): vulnerabilities are analyzed, IT teams are alerted for resolution;
- Obsolescence management jointly with the cloud platform provider;
- Infrastructure hardening following security agencies recommendations;
- A Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure policy (CVD).
Vulnerabilities are analyzed by Klaxoon security team. The latter relies on the CVSS score and their knowledge of Klaxoon's platform to determine the urgency and impact. Critical vulnerabilities are patched as soon as possible. - Protective monitoring type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Protective monitoring approach
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The platform is continuously monitored, a mechanism is in place to detect certain behaviors and alert the Operations team, who can act accordingly.
Klaxoon provides a 24/7 automatic alarm based on-call duty. In case of detection of an exceptional and critical incident compromising the Service and/or Client data outside working hours, an emergency procedure is triggered to take the necessary actions to mitigate the incident. - Incident management type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Incident management approach
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Klaxoon Support desk is the entry point for any incident whether it is detected by the customer, internally or by an external source. The incident is traced in an internal incident management tool and confirmed by Klaxoon Support specialists.
Support contact: through Klaxoon in-app web chat or via email : help@klaxoon.com
The customer user is informed when the incident is taken into account. Klaxoon Support specialists may contact users directly if needed to get information or perform tests.
The customer user is also informed when the incident is solved or when it needs deeper analysis.
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Conforms to a recognised standard, but self-assessed
Public sector networks
- Connection to public sector networks
- No
Social Value
- Social Value
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Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Covid-19 recovery
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
Every day, we strive to reduce our carbon footprint, promote energy efficiency and support environmentally friendly initiatives. We carried out a carbon assessment in 2021, and this year we are carrying out a new assessment for the 2023 financial year. We have set up an energy-saving plan, communicated an eco-gestures guide to our employees and launched a program to raise awareness of climate issues with the "Fresque du Climat" training course.Covid-19 recovery
Here are the measures implemented during the pandemic :
• Introduction of teleworking for all employees, followed by a gradual return to our premises with a 50% occupancy rate until February 2022.
• Social distancing measures in offices, closure of cafeteria
• Self-test kit available, FFP2 masks, wipes.
• Reinforced housekeeping instructions in premises for cleaning contact points.Tackling economic inequality
Klaxoon has chosen to play a role in the "Wi-filles" project by welcoming groups of girls aged 14 to 17 on our Campus to inspire them in their choice of future profession: discovery of our workspace, testimonials, workshops The Wi-filles project aims to break down stereotypes about digital professions.
In addition, the klaxoon product is offered at a preferential rate (-50%) to schools and educational associations.Equal opportunity
Right from the recruitment process, we are committed to preventing discrimination and ensuring total equality of opportunity. Furthermore, to reinforce our commitment, we make it compulsory for our employees to take part in awareness-raising and dialogue programs on diversity and inclusion.Wellbeing
We pay particular attention to our employees' health, quality of life and working conditions. A happy workforce is a driving force for innovation and success. We are committed to creating a healthy, balanced and inclusive work environment.
• Klaxoon makes a point of respecting its commitments to protecting and improving working conditions for its employees.
• We have a telecommuting charter that enables everyone to organize their working time between home and the office.
• We have chosen to provide our employees with quality equipment such as ergonomic chairs, supplies, adapted mice, double screens …
• We provide employees with accessible, efficient, adaptable and inspiring workspaces.
• Self-service fruit, coffee and tea for all teams, and access to a connected fridge for meals.
Pricing
- Price
- £25 a licence a month
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
- Free trial available
- Yes
- Description of free trial
- Freemium Klaxoon offers the functionality of Klaxoon with some restrictions around usage of templates, number of open activities and number of guests on a session
- Link to free trial
- https://shop.klaxoon.com/en/freemium/1-step-new-email