What is Vulcan?
Vulcan is a complete visual knowledge management and team collaboration platform.
Key features and unique differences of Vulcan to perceptively similar tools, which on the surface may appear to have a similar value proposition.
The Similarities
Let's begin with acknowledgement of where Vulcan is similar or at least consistent with other visual collaboration and digital whiteboard tools.
- Administrative abilities to create Companies, Projects and Charts with role-based access controls (RBAC) and granular permissions
- A pannable, zoomable canvas that contains your individual or company content.
- Digital whiteboard tools, such as sticky notes and
- Drawing tools like shapes and arrows.
- Sketching tools (coming soon).
- Real time collaboration with multiple users editing the Chart simultaneously.
- Reusable templates for capturing best-practices and commonly used visual assets for easy reuse across the organisation and even in the global marketplace.
- Embeddable charts for presentation inside your preferred knowledge tools (Notion, Confluence etc.)
- Upload files from your computer.
- Comment everywhere.
- Smart templates (coming soon).
- Integrations.
- Image search and picker.
- Full text search across Projects, Charts and Object content.
How Vulcan is DIFFERENT
Vulcan is much more focussed on the challenges of the day-to-day collaboration between remote teams that are working individually most of the time, yet need to share progress, status, ideation and narrative while avoiding excessive meetings and video calls.
The building blocks of this approach are integral to Vulcan.
Closer to the Knowledge
Vulcan is purposefully positioned closer to the deep, rich knowledge base concepts that teams use (and misuse) to capture organisation knowledge. Too often these tools are used for ideation, when they are not designed for this purpose.
- Embed support for Vulcan into common knowledge base tools, such as Confluence and Notion.
- Visual and interactive storytelling with Wayfinder
- Deeper information tools natively in Vulcan via the Editor, a block-based and customisable text editor that is available for most Object types.
- Editor tools, such as entity recognition and closer integration with the visual canvas.
Async First
Existing visual collaboration tools place emphasis on live in-person collaboration via remote workshops. Vulcan, on the other hand, is primarily focussed on the work that happens in between these sessions - when people go away individually to DO the research and preparation, take the follow up actions, the continuous iteration, the design process, and related project work takes place.
- Better for deeper research with combination of visual tools and richer, deeper dynamic information tools.
- Human-based storytelling, via video capture, that is connected to your Vulcan content.
- Interactive video conversations with async video-based discussions.
- Connecting the story to the content with timeline based effects and animations.
- Dynamic, personalised storytelling with conditional journeys - different paths for different audiences.
- Tools for creating powerful, reusable stories through the knowledge base.
- Developer tools platform for supercharging stories with dynamic components and increased interactivity.
Extensibility Focussed
Vulcan was built with Extensibility in mind. We provide rich functionalities that are simple to use for Developers* to customise Vulcan.
- Customer Editor Block Components
- Component Builder interface in the Vulcan Web Client
- Local Developer environment for building custom Components
- REST API
- Custom Object type builder(Coming Soon)
- Chart Embeds SDK (Coming Soon)
