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About

Event management software that enables conferences to become knowledge producers. Conferences produce new knowledge. However, with so much that goes into managing a conference, one can focus on engaging participants and producing new knowledge only when right tools & enough resources are available. Using our cloud-based, all-in-one event management platform, event organizers can collect abstract submissions & create program schedule, send email campaigns, sell tickets online and build event websites, resulting in huge savings in time, cost & effort.

About

OpenWater is an all-in-one software platform that lets your organization collect and review any type of application and provide for online review. OpenWater is a software platform that helps grow your awards, abstracts, fellowships, grants, and more! The OpenWater Growth Stack has been battle tested and is capable of handling the most demanding application and review processes for awards, grants, scholarships, fellowships, abstracts and more. Provide your audience with an intuitive and engaging virtual conference experience through OpenWater software. Our enterprise grade virtual event software delivers high quality broadcasts at scale. We are a proven partner here to help you grow through a remote conference platform.

Platforms Supported

Windows Not Supported
Mac Not Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Supported
iPad Supported
Android Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Platforms Supported

Windows Not Supported
Mac Not Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Audience

Academic conferences, nonprofits, symposiums

Audience

Organizations of all types in need of a powerful Accreditation Management platform

Support

Phone Support Supported
24/7 Live Support Supported
Online Supported

Support

Phone Support Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported

API

Offers API Not Supported

API

Offers API Not Supported

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$1899.00/year
Free Version Not Supported
Free Trial Supported

Pricing

No information available.
Free Version Not Supported
Free Trial Supported

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 1.0 / 5
ease 2.0 / 5
features 4.0 / 5
design 2.0 / 5
support 4.0 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 0.0 / 5
ease 0.0 / 5
features 0.0 / 5
design 0.0 / 5
support 0.0 / 5

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Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • It has a lot of functionalities, very complete, but not really delivering what was promised in the beginning

Cons

  • This is our underwhelming experience with Dryfta in our international conference held in Spain this year in March: - Multilingual issues: although it is advertised as multilingual, it didn’t really work as such. The many issues that popped up throughout the conference preparation were fixed little by little to our cost in time, help desk emails and struggles with the unfriendly UX. - Admin pages reloaded everytime you clicked on a button (their developers seem to ignore Ajax technologies) therefore being time consuming and requiring constant page searches. - Inflexibility in many of the supposed functionalities it offers. - Certificates were not modifiable nor custom when we had to send them (it was solved months after the conference finished when we were surprisingly contacted by the help desk). - Problems with size of images to be displayed on the site, very small fonts and limited options to display content. We had to hire a professional developer in order to get a graphically consistent and presentable website. - Very poor mobile version: too big margins, unreadable texts, endless text blocks and lists, distorted pictures. - Issues with the ordering of the authors’ names for the different proposals (authorship being so important in research). - Fixed inflexible fields in the contact sheets, speakers info and so on. - Special character issues (due to latin characters and other types used in linguistic research). - Not being able to include links in the HTML editor due to DRYFTA unadverted decisions to block them. - Only one superadmin user allowed to access the full functionalities of the platform, so we had to share it (consequently not knowing who did each action). - Problems with the generation of reports and very high complexity in their interface. - Some issues on the mandatory anonymity: the double blind review process not fully respected due to unclear user info and options, with other issues coming up on the go such as unwanted info in automated notifications and messages in welcome dashboard. - Not really willing to help with Paypal instant payment notification’s issues during registration and not being able to use the other payment method on the platform because they were incompatible with the conference country. - Missing information and time wasted when creating events for sessions with info already existing in the server that randomly failed to be picked. These issues were reported even with video proofs (help desk didn’t believe us), and were never solved. We had to repeat the same processes again and again, never knowing what was going on. All these issues showed up as the different steps in the organisation of a conference were taken. Some of them were solved… most of them too late, once the conference was already over. Considering that the platform was supposed to have been used already for many other conference teams, we do not understand how all these issues came up in ours. We were not asking for anything unusual but rather for issues all conference organizers must go through during the preparation and celebration stages. It is true that whenever we came across some problem and notified it to the admins, their answers were quick, but they were in many cases unsatisfactory, didn’t meet our deadlines or were even disregarded due to their “impossibility to add our requests to their roadmaps” on time.

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Supported
Live Online Supported
In Person Supported

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Supported
Live Online Supported
In Person Supported

Company Information

Dryfta
Founded: 2015
United States
dryfta.com

Company Information

OpenWater
Founded: 2007
United States
www.getopenwater.com

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Categories

Categories

Event Management Features

Attendee Management Supported
Badge Management Supported
Conferences / Conventions Supported
Exhibit / Vendor Management Supported
Gamification Supported
Room Block Management Not Supported
Social Media Promotion Supported
Sponsorship Management Supported
Surveys & Feedback Supported
Ticketing Supported
Volunteer Management Supported
Weddings / Parties Not Supported

Accreditation Management Features

Collaboration Supported
Compliance Management Supported
Document Management Supported
Higher Education Supported
Requirements Management Supported
Reviewer Portal Supported
Self Assessment Not Supported
User Access Permissions Supported
Workflow Management Supported

Board Management Features

Agenda Time Management Not Supported
Approval Process Management Supported
Board Assessment Not Supported
Calendar Management Not Supported
Collaboration Not Supported
D&O Questionnaires Not Supported
Document Management Not Supported
Electronic Signature Not Supported
For Nonprofits Supported
Member Directory Not Supported
Minutes Management Not Supported
Polls / Voting Supported
Role-Based Permissions Not Supported
Roles and Terms Not Supported
Single Sign On Not Supported
Skills Tracking Not Supported

Contest Features

Awards Management Supported
Blind Judging Supported
Entrant Management Supported
Entry Fee Processing Supported
Entry Management Supported
Forms Management Supported
Fraud Detection Supported
Judging Management Supported
Scoring Supported
Skills Contests (Photo, Essay, Design, etc) Supported
Social Media Management Supported
Social Promotions Supported
Sweepstakes Not Supported
Timeline Management Supported
Voting Management Supported

Grant Management Features

Compliance Management Not Supported
Contract Management Not Supported
Grant Application Management Not Supported
Grant Award Tracking Supported
Grant Opportunity Search Not Supported
Self-Registration Not Supported

Scholarship Management Features

Applicant Management Supported
Applicant Portal Supported
Commenting / Notes Supported
Customizable Forms Supported
Interview Management Supported
Recommendations Management Supported
Reviewer Management Supported
Scoring Supported
White Label Supported

Virtual Event Platforms Features

Alerts/Notifications Supported
Attendee Management Supported
Customizable Branding Supported
Event Management Supported
File Sharing Not Supported
Lead Capture Not Supported
Live Audio/Video Chat Supported
Live Text Chat Supported
Mobile Access Supported
Moderation Not Supported
Pre-made Templates Not Supported
Presentation Tools Supported
Q&A Supported
Reporting/Analytics Supported
Social Media Promotion Supported
Surveys/Polls Supported
Virtual Booths Not Supported
Virtual Lobby Not Supported

Integrations

Novi AMS Not Supported
Salesforce Not Supported
Zoom Webinars Supported
iMIS Not Supported

Integrations

Novi AMS Supported
Salesforce Supported
Zoom Webinars Not Supported
iMIS Supported
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