Why Mural beats Microsoft Whiteboard — even within the Microsoft ecosystem
Microsoft Whiteboard is a quick fix. Mural transforms productivity, connection, and innovation, revolutionizing teamwork across the enterprise.
Trusted by over 95% of the Fortune 100
Need secure, scalable visual collaboration? Choose Mural over Microsoft Whiteboard.
Integrates seamlessly with the way you work
Mural is the only comprehensive visual work solution for the Microsoft ecosystem—including Teams, Outlook, Office and Copilot — as well as seamless integration with popular external apps and platforms such as Jira, Figma, Adobe, and Zoom.
AI capabilities focused on the future of collaboration
Quickly generate ideas, create mind maps, cluster information, and more with our built in AI. We also integrate with Microsoft Copilot for powerful AI functionality across the Microsoft ecosystem.
Enhanced control for external collaborators
Mural gives you unmatched control when working with external collaborators. Unlike Microsoft Whiteboard, Mural makes it easy to manage guest editing and access duration. Collaboration is seamless with Mural, whether it’s within your team or with external partners.
A platform and a system, all in one
Smart teamwork practices — based on the proven LUMA System™ — are embedded in Mural through tools and templates that help teams get to the good stuff, faster.
4 Things Microsoft Whiteboard customers miss out on by not choosing Mural
A transformation partner
Mural’s customer success team is by your side to ensure a smooth implementation, while the professional services team can create custom workflows and use cases tailored to your organization’s needs. We’ll help you transform your teamwork through the power of visual collaboration for greater efficiency and productivity across the organization.
Intuitive and easy-to-use design combined with powerful Al
Mural is intuitive and user-friendly without unnecessary feature bloat. Our human-centric Al features help teams generate ideas, group information, and streamline tasks. With Mural, teams can get started quickly and conquer the blank page to solve problems and reach unexpected conclusions.
Comprehensive system and design
Mural’s LUMA System™ offers a unique blend of advanced teamwork practices and thoughtfully-designed templates to accelerate innovation, resources, and training while enhancing productivity and creativity. We’re the only vendor dedicated to giving our customers not just a better tool, but a better way to work.
High performance and collaboration capabilities
Mural’s unique set of features for those conducting workshops and meetings helps facilitators save time, stay in control, and keep sessions engaging. They allow for interactive guidance of participants, reduction in bias through private mode, and control of the experience through custom toolbars.
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The business value of Mural
80%
of surveyed Consultants describe their customer success-led onboarding experience with Mural as easy.
100%
of surveyed Fortune 500 organizations said Mural increased team engagement, improving their collaboration process.
79%
of surveyed organizations saw an increase in team engagement following the implementation of Mural.
88%
of surveyed organizations who work in an office full time said 51-75% of time spent doing teamwork with Mural is done synchronously.
Why our customers prefer Mural
"Mural enhances our ability to create a safe space for people to collaborate and contribute, whether they’re introverted or extroverted, in person or remote. Meetings are more engaging and inclusive, and ultimately, diverse perspectives lead to more innovative, impactful solutions.”
"Mural has been critical in deploying IBM Design Thinking across the whole company. We now have people in more than 50 countries collaborating daily.”
"We went from collaborating on whiteboards in person to working remotely, and our customers, partners, and internal teams don't always share a common set of tools. We needed a flexible, easy way to collaborate visually among all parties - and we found that with Mural."
"If it's just several days of one-way monologues, that's not incredibly engaging. It doesn't facilitate the type of teamwork and collaboration we needed. We needed a way for everyone to connect and interact with one another."
"It’s not often we find tools that can operate in the highly regulated environments in which we work. Mural has allowed our teams to seamlessly collaborate with our clients and engage with them in a whole new way.”
“The logistics were wildly complex. It was a multiday, interactive conference. If someone got lost amidst dozens of concurrent sessions, how would they reorient themselves? The goal became ease and transparency.”
“Mural is the tool that fuels our remote design studios at GitHub. For us, design studios are an alignment tool for our distributed marketing team. They enable us to rally around a shared understanding of the customer challenge and proposed solution so we can move forward with confidence together. We couldn’t do that without MURAL.”
“You need parity to the face-to-face experience to sustainably adopt hybrid working, so that being remote is not a barrier to productivity, inclusion, and belonging. And that requires a healthy work environment with a strong foundation of trust and safety.”
