Vantaggi
Hard to add a pro as the base product is essentially a dashboard, with lot's of extra 'apps' that are hard to decipher what the difference is as they kind of do the same thing...boring
Svantaggi
Where to begin, well another post put it very well in that the core product is a 'nice-to-have' and the person who would make the business case would likely want to spend money on more important IT infrastructure than a building 'dashboard' - quite frankly this company is an example of the 'frothy' market in the Bay Area right now. All of the senior management is not trying to build a great company or product mind you, no they are trying as hard as possible to 'pump and dump' Lucid so they can sell it to some unsuspecting company that only learns of all the lies that have been said after they buy the company. If Lucid could focus instead on building something great and not spinning so many artifacts of illusion that all they really have is a dashboard and not an actual operating system, as they try so hard to convince people it is. Calling it an OS or operating system is just silly, their OS does not operate anything....it's not like Windows or a Mac operating system at all. Lucid is losing traction in trying so hard to convince building owners to buy a product that is a 'must-have' - uhm, no it's actually not. And what they make is not really patentable and there exits is no barrier of entry that someone else with deeper pockets and better technology could come along and displace what Lucid is doing. What others have said is true, the founders and senior managers of the company have not ever worked anywhere else besides Lucid. Because of this they have tunnel vision in terms of how to run a company, manage talent and generally work in the business world. So many times I was surprised by the total lack of even the most basic inter-office business communication skills i.e call handling and phone presence, conference calls and things that once you have worked in a professional setting, you learn and know the proper way to conduct yourself in a professional office setting. Finally the management, again as other posts have stated. The Lucid management 'team' have lost their souls and now are firmly under control of the VC firm, where everything is focused on using people, and loving money instead of the other way around. Beneath the veneer of being a green company and we're going to help save the earth is a company that is trying desperately to be something it is not and instead is being run by greedy evil persons that have a vapid sense of how to be a good human and do the right thing. Oh and by the way - ignore most if not all of the positive reviews or posts as they were manufactured by persons still within the company that were specifically told to do so to help counterbalance the true negativity of the 'real' reviews.