Miro Software

Overview Presentation

Miro is a collaborative whiteboarding platform for distributed and remote teams. Users are presented with an infinite blank canvas which they can fill up with smart widgets for any type of collaborative work. It has templates, folders, communication tools, and integration with many apps to provide a complete productivity solution. So, no matter where your teams are, they can work together smoothly to build better things.

Features, Benefits, Strengths

• Faster Creation and Innovation – Miro provides an infinite canvas where users can unleash their creativity and work the way they want. It also has pre-built templates and smart frameworks to get them started up quickly. A robust set of widgets where they can utilize sticky notes, freeform pen, shapes, arrows, smart drawing, and more are available to help initiate discovery and brainstorming. The entire toolkit allows users to create user stories, customer journey maps, wireframing, roadmap, sprint planning, retros, and more.
• Easier Collaboration – The whiteboarding platform offers digital workspaces where distributed and remote teams can brainstorm, and go through processes, workshops and decision making as if all are in the same room. With simple mouseovers, users can see how collaborators and team members engage with their boards. Sharing screens and presentations is easy and directly from the platform. With embedded video, chat, and commenting tools, they can get feedback, reviews, and approvals from multiple communication options.
• Centralized Communication – Miro enables users to create a hub for cross-functional work. Easy folder organization and structure helps them find boards faster. Account and user administration tools allow for easy management of accounts and user permissions across the company. They can further streamline their workflow by integrating with more than 20 apps such as Slack, Jira, Google Drive, Sketch, Zapier, Microsoft Teams, and others. Security is implemented with SSL encryption, SSO, advanced user management, and more, as well as compliance with SOC-2, GDPR, and PCI policies.

Pricing

Miro offers freemium pricing plans. The Free plan is a simple way to get started in the software. It includes 3 editable boards, unlimited team members, premade templates, and about a dozen core integrations such as Slack, Trello, Gmail, Zapier, and more. The Team plan priced at $8 per user per month billed annually (or $10 billed monthly) is for teams of 5 and above, and includes all Free plan features, unlimited boards, projects, custom templates, Kanban framework, Jira, Confluence, and Asana integrations. The Business plan for 20 users and above is at $16 per user per month billed annually. An Enterprise plan for 50+ users is also available with custom pricing. A Consultant plan for individual consultants or agencies working with client teams at $12 per user per month billed annually is also available.

Social Network Presence

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Linkedin
• YouTube

Target Market

Miro is for individuals, teams, and organizations. It is a solution for product development, for lean and agile teams, for UX research and design, for innovation and ideation, for strategy and projects, and for mind mapping. Users in the education, marketing and advertising, design, and software development industries, among others, are deriving great benefits from using the platform

Supported Language

English

Some of their Clients

Clients include Netflix, Twitter, Upwork, IKEA, Cisco, and Logitech.

Testimonials

Shipra Kayan explained that they were struggling in sharing large design artifacts like Journey Maps to their team. About 70 percent of their team members who needed to see these artifacts were remote. This was solved by having every team member use Miro for collective clustering, prioritization, and brainstorming. Sometimes, it can even serve as a backup when their other collaboration application like Hangouts was out of service.

Kevin Yang stated that the collaborative whiteboarding platform helps his product team ship multiple large-scale releases. They are able to decide on design changes quicker, enabling them to ship 20 percent faster. Since the technology industry moves fast, having that extra 20 percent speed allows them to stay ahead of the competition.

Why Miro

Miro is an ideal collaborative platform for brainstorming and creativity. It is a modern and centralized workspace for ideas and innovation. It provides flexibility as well as structure so that ideas can be refined and revised, and be transformed into real products using standardized processes. Currently, over 3M users are taking advantage of the features and tools of the platform.

Company Info

Miro is a product of RealtimeBoard, Inc., a privately held computer software and services provider based in San Francisco, CA, USA, and with offices in Los Angeles, CA; Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and Perm, Russia. It was founded in 2011 by Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin in Russia. As more companies compete for talent, teams are now composed of talents from different locations, and many companies have distributed teams, especially product development teams. Miro was created to be a visual collaboration platform that enables people working on whiteboards instead do it in digital space. It can also serve as the bridge between other collaboration platforms used by companies.