Birdview reviews

Professional Services Projects and More!

Opmerkingen: It's really nice to have a product that keeps getting better and better and just works for our team. Very little bad news ever. We love Birdview!!

Pluspunten:

I love that it's geared towards Professional Services Projects, which is really just mass project management with customers where most Project Management is for internal projects. This really understands the needs of the Service based project.

Minpunten:

I could name a feature that it doesn't have, but I fear that would be released before I found my next missing feature.

Why to chose birdview

Opmerkingen: Not great, but not bad as well, overall it's a good tool with all the essentials, could have a better visual design but that also might depend on how the company sets it up and uses it

Pluspunten:

It's easy to find your task and project, it's a simple visual tool and easy to understand

Minpunten:

could use somekind of task time tracking, it would be helpful to have something like a stopwatch assign to a task or something

Can be difficult

Opmerkingen: I do not use it often but when I do I feel like I am constantly struggling to find what I need quickly.

Pluspunten:

It is nice to put project requests for outside teams all in one place.

Minpunten:

I feel like I have a hard to knowing that a submitted a project request correctly. It is also difficult to find old and current projects on this platform.

Great system to organize busy workload

Opmerkingen: As a project manager of over 700 projects a year, this is an essential tool in prioritizing our workload. Our past system didn't allow us to shift dates, run reports, customize tasks that work for our team. Our organization has been using BV since 2017 and I couldn't imagine using another project management system.

Pluspunten:

Birdview is a great way to organize our team and projects. This allows us to keep all communications in one place to track progress. It allows us to easily identify when a project gets off track. It's increased our productivity and communications.

Minpunten:

There is nothing negative I can say about BV. I love that BV is always looking for input and ways to improve their system based on the ways their customers use the product.

EZ Projects

Opmerkingen: I think it works pretty good to track all of my projects.

Pluspunten:

Helps me to keep track of all of my projects and can store attached files.

Minpunten:

does not track in real-time. It does not help me when looking at the timeline of my projects.

A Bird's Eye View of Birdview

Opmerkingen: Birdview has greatly simplified my time tracking and project progress. I spend a lot less time pulling together my time spent and goals achieved from my old system of handwritten post-its all over my monitor.

Pluspunten:

I like being able to see at a glance the time I've dedicated to a given project. I also appreciate how easy it is to log that time.

Minpunten:

It can occasionally be frustrating to balance too many vs not enough project categories to properly capture all the work effort I use on various projects.

Birdview Earthbound Trading

Pluspunten:

It is an affordable method of project management

Minpunten:

Access to closed projects is very cumbersome and difficult to manage when we need to refer to an old project.

Birdview's Flexible Modular Approach

Pluspunten:

Birdview is flexible enough to cater to individual workflows and thinking styles.

Minpunten:

Birdview's powerful modular approach can also present a hindrance depending on its user's preferred working conditions. For those who function well under stricter parameters, Birdview will be great for you once you get it off the ground and running, however - until then, it might present a bit of a learning curve because its pliability makes for multiple organizational approaches that might require some time for familiarization.

Simple and Intuitive

Opmerkingen: Overall experience with Bridview has been great. It is intuitive. Its Reporting features are excellent.

Pluspunten:

Its ease of use. No one likes time recording/writing. Birdview makes it simple and easy to do. I also like the feature to rollover your time data every week.

Minpunten:

To not be able sort the timesheet based on project/client.

Birdview Review Higher Education Use Case

Pluspunten:

I like being able to add in tasks and projects and see everything in an organized manner. I like being able to enter data and information to keep the owners and stakeholders aware of what is going on with the projects and tasks.

Minpunten:

I think the entering of tasks/projects hours is a little cumbersome and could use some tweaking to help make that entering a faster experience. Also I think the reports and data could also be enhanced to be able to manipulate the reports and information in ways we need to share out to stakeholders and team leads.

Good Software - Intuitive and Lots of useful reporting tools

Opmerkingen: Replaces multiple documents, spreadsheets and processes into one place

Pluspunten:

More user-friendly and intuitive than MS Project. Tracking financial information was the main reason for our transition to BirdView. Easy to track hours spent and where we had different spreadsheets for different functions and departments - Birdview has everything in one place. Chat support is good - although we're in the UK we get answers in the afternoon or the next day. Integration with Outlook is valuable addition - it will set tasks for you. The approval feature for documents is also good. We have different order sign-off values. Uploading the document and requesting approval is much easier than email, print, sign and scan. Custom forms feature and transfer to projects works well (when combined with Project templates). Resource loading allows managers to track if people are close to being overloaded and waiting for an improvement on this to be implemented. The company is very receptive to improvement suggestions.

Minpunten:

The onboarding process is a little quick and all upfront... It would be better to have it in two phases, an introduction and then a few weeks after a question and answer session. Difficult to create a GANTT chart for a particular project - each task you want to show has to be a milestone or set by priority. Output can be difficult to read when a long-term project for dates. Custom forms work, but meeting minutes not so much - text-based minutes, not a table or preset format. It would be good to create tasks based upon individual points raised in meeting Resource loading-40 hours of work over 20 days is loaded at 2 hrs per day, even though the bathtub principle tells you that the work loading is likely to be more at the beginning of the task and more at the end, with little input required in the middle. Apparently there is an update to be implemented shortly to correct this.

It's a game changer for project managers

Opmerkingen: Using Birdview PSA has been an incredible experience for me in my professional work. It's like having a one-stop shop for all my project management needs. The key features that have truly helped me on a daily basis include project planning, task and time estimation, resource planning, progress tracking, and budget analysis. Having all these functionalities in one platform is extremely handy and saves me a lot of time and effort. Birdview PSA has become an invaluable tool that streamlines my work and makes project management a breeze. It's been incredibly helpful in keeping everything organized and ensuring smooth execution of my projects.

Pluspunten:

This platform has truly revolutionized the way I handle projects in the most professional and user-friendly way. What sets Birdview PSA apart is its seamless setup process. Adding project tasks and assigning team members is a breeze, and the intuitive interface makes it a easy to navigate. It provides comprehensive project status and with just a glance, I can quickly assess progress, identify any roadblocks, and keep things on track with ease. One feature that has been an absolute game-changer is the time estimates and actuals functionality. Being able to track and compare the time spent on tasks against initial estimates has been invaluable. It has empowered me to make informed decisions, optimize resource allocation, and stay on top of project expenditures. In a nutshell, Birdview PSA has become my go-to project management tool. It's professional, user-friendly and efficient.

Minpunten:

I've found most of Birdview's features to be incredibly useful. It's been a game-changer for my project management needs. However, there is one minor hiccup that I've encountered. When assigning multiple people to a task and wanting to allocate different estimated hours for each person, it becomes a bit tricky.

Easy Projects has proven to be a great way to bring all of the assets of a project together.

Opmerkingen: All conversations, assets and proofing is done in one easily accessible place. We can more easily assign team members, switch designers working on a project and freelance projects to outside designers.

Pluspunten:

1. It's easily tweakable to fit our workflow. 2. We've had great, responsive customer service. 3. There's auto notifications to keep projects on track that can be set up according to the licensed user's preferences. 4. We can finally keep all conversations about projects in one place and they are archived to be reinitiated in the same way the next year. 5. It fit the budget well. It wasn't the most expensive nor the cheapest but had all of the options we were looking for in an online project management system-online proofing, forms that convert to projects, tweakable workflow, ability to have free guest users and automatic notifications.

Minpunten:

1. The guest user experience isn't as strong. 2. We'd like to tweak the notifications for guest users per project but can't. There is a universal notification for all guest users that works well. Sometimes bugs the guest user too much though. 3. If 2 people are on a task and one clicks that they're done, they will still get notifications until the other person clicks done. It would be great if the notifications could stop for the person that completed their portion of the task once they click that they're done. 4. I really liked the Outlook integration option but wish it was available for Mac users. Over 50% of our office is on a Mac.

Project Management Simplified

Pluspunten:

very intuitive, easy to learn , track and document work. lot of options for reporting, calendar view is great. project planning is easy and with the help of gantt charts we can clearly see where are we at a project. integration with outlook is great as well.

Minpunten:

nothing particular the admin setup is not straightforward but that's no big deal

Great Project Managment tool

Opmerkingen: I quite like the ease-of-use when it comes to daily time tracking and project planning.

Pluspunten:

I really like the the ability to access specific projects and tasks from multiple areas within the site. Tracking labour and progress from tasks up to project milestones is very easy to do.

Minpunten:

I wish I could save specific reporting functions.

Great! Easy to use, reliable & tracks all projects, activities & manages my available resources.

Pluspunten:

We are an in-house CPG creative department of four. Easy Projects houses all of our creative projects/activities. The Creative team can see every project and its status at anytime. It also generates a resource report so see when my designers are over or under allocated I can make the necessary adjustments within the schedule to ensure the workload is at manageable level and adjusting schedules is easy and right at your fingertips. Easy projects holds all projects notes, so you don't have to go digging through emails. The upgrades to the system have been ongoing and great improvements but at a great price! The system is versatile and flexible to meet anyone's needs.

Minpunten:

It is difficult to get the entire organization access to view all projects and status and our workload. They don't need full access but viewable access to activity center without paying for a full license per user.

I use Easy Projects for my job, and it has been so easy to use!

Pluspunten:

I like that every person on the team can communicate directly within the program, eliminating the need for long email chains. My favorite feature used to be the layout of the My Assignments page before it became more of a to-do list. I liked being able to see what other people had commented and what other members were on a project with me. I also like that you can customize views in the Activity Center. It makes checking workload across a team very easy! I will also say that I think it's neat that you offer webinars to go over new features. I haven't been able to watch any of them, but one day I hope to catch up and see all the features I'm missing out on! lol

Minpunten:

I really miss the old My Assignments view :( Other than that, I'd say that it's the perfect project management software!

Competent and simple

Pluspunten:

Simplicity. Moved from two separate systems designed for specific workflows, to something that only shows the basics by default, and easily allows access to the more detail oriented features via simple navigation.

Minpunten:

Sometimes it's not entirely clear why a project is not visible to you as an end user. That's really on the project leader and administration's head though.

I have been using EasyProjects for about 5 years now and love it!

Opmerkingen: I use it every day and could not do my job without it.

Pluspunten:

I like the ability to to customize my view so that I can only see what is most important for me in my role. I also enjoy the ability to filter for projects based on the various fields a project can be categorized by. How I use EasyProjects has evolved over time as I have learned more about the features it offers.

Minpunten:

There are many times that I say to myself, "I wish it could do this" or "I wish they made this feature more simple. For example, the reporting features can do amazing things but I find myself struggling at times to get the data/reporting that I want. I also wish the EasyProjects had more abilities to work with other software. I have tried to use Zapier to connect a few things but what is offered is very limited.

Many useful features, especially with project tracking.

Opmerkingen: Over experience is positive. User-friendly, global overview of multiple ongoing projects helps with gauging capacity and utilizability, and can go back for reference and edit if need be (flexible usage).

Pluspunten:

Birdview is user-friendly. You can track multiple projects which can be broken into sub-projects/tasks. You can enter as you go, adjust post-hoc, and it saves automatically, so it's flexible in terms of each own's desired frequency of use. I also appreciate the calendar feature when tracking hours to flag which days meet quota (green) or are under (yellow) / over (red).

Minpunten:

All existing and pre-existing projects remain in the dropdown when selecting which project to track. If there was a way to hide some, it would be easier / more efficient to navigate through them. If you want to remove hours from a project, you cannot completely; it forces you to retain at least 0:01hrs (i.e. 1 min) - would just be cleaner if one could override this feature.

Very Good Management Software for Research Center in Advanced Manufacturing

Opmerkingen: It revolutionize the way we work, able to pin point our operating costs, identify employees that had difficulties, speed up our delivery time, able to analyse in depth multiple data point such as geographic of our clients, type of projects, sectors of activities, major suppliers, powerful CRM and audit project audit trail.

Pluspunten:

Jame pack with features and able to customize with your operation. It only took 4hrs of training for our staff and about 2 months of transition phase, and now we are very fluent in the use and would not be able to work without it.

Minpunten:

You can easily erase data, but is user right manageable, no backup, vacation module does not have request or approval, financial calculates internal cost (exact cost of the employee salary) but does not have an option to calculate the actual cost of the project with the hourly charging rate (i.e. 5hr @100$/hr vs 35$/hr for the salary). Lastly, you cannot easily adjust the size of the fields.

Easy Projects has been a game changer by streamlining projects and improving work processes.

Pluspunten:

Easy Projects is very flexible. We began using the software focused on the work process between two specific divisions. Upon learning of the success among these teams, more divisions expressed interest and are currently being onboarded. Although their work process needs are completely unique and require individualized approaches to ensure success, this software has proven that it can expand and adapt as needed. Your imagination is the only limit with this product!

Minpunten:

Although minor, there are still some areas that would ideally be changed to work better for our needs as a company. However, these particular areas can't be personalized yet so we have had to adapt our processes to fit the product. These areas have not hindered our work but I do look forward to the day when they can customize all features to the specific client accounts.

Started with a demo for the need of a better inhouse job tracking system for our 2000 plus projects

Opmerkingen: accountability between project managers and our creative staff. managed expectations with regards to budget and deadlines. Also helped with our ROI with certain clients where we have to charge per hour ( we are large in house marketing department who have not had to charge out).
The budgeting platform and invoice collection has bee so easy to manage and understand.

Pluspunten:

Extemly user friendly but more important the support and admin staff there have almost become family, helping us customize and work through our many growing pains of adding more and more divisions. Lots of custom work done on our behalf for a really personalized product. Right now I feel we have only had positive experiences Even at times of connective glitches, they are dealt with right away and never last long enough to affect our workflow. They have become real partners in our work day.

Easy Projects Review

Opmerkingen: I really enjoy using Easy Projects. It's an easy and efficient way to keep track of tasks for our clients, track time to accurately bill and quote projects. Messaging back and forth with other departments on the same assignment is much easier than filtering through a slew of emails. It's a great way to stay organized and know what needs to be accomplished.

Pluspunten:

Easy to use. Great way to organize tasks and assignments. Essentially one platform to capture all information regarding our clients. Messaging back and forth between employees, other departments.

Minpunten:

Navigation is a little difficult at first. Multiple filters and options can cause confusion if not used properly.

A Easy to Use, Customizable Project Management Tool

Pluspunten:

It is an easy way to stay organized and assign project tasks among our teams. Usage is fairly intuitive, and there are a lot of options to customize the product to your organization's specific needs.

Minpunten:

I don't like that you can not search to find subtasks easily, which makes it difficult when referencing older project details.