ActiveCollab

Perfect Project management tool.

Opmerkingen: ActiveCollab is one of the best, if not the best project management tool that I have ever used and I have jumped from one to another tool for different projects and project types. If offers so many features, perfect dashboard, milestone preview, calendar, planner, contact details, time tracking and much more. While it is perfect for managing many different types of projects, this is still not the perfect tool for managing software development projects. The only reason for that would be, there is no (or that was not back then) an integration with Git or other version of control system. It was simply a missing feature back then.
I truly hope that nowadays the ActiveCollab team managed to improve and integrate such feature, but talking 6-7 years ago, that was the only downside that I can say about it. If for some reason that is still not available and you are into software development business, look for something else like Asana or Bitbucket.

Pluspunten:

Great dashboard, different types of reports, milestone preview, calendars, time tracking tool are just a few of the features that make this software irreplaceable tool when it comes to project management.

Minpunten:

Lack of integration with Git or another version of control system.

A simple Project Manager's review

Opmerkingen: Overall very smooth experience for me. Fast bandwidth. Bug free experience.

Pluspunten:

Project view grouping and filtering with grid and table layout. This is a killer feature for my use case.Very simple yet comprehensive overall system design. This is important for me as my coworkers came from different backgrounds.Activity View is very effective to have an overall view on what's going on without wasting a lot of time.Mobile Application gets the job done. No bugs, no unexpected behavior.

Minpunten:

The optional GetPaid (invoicing and payment management) paid add-on is honestly not for me. It's a very nice and really good addition for more simple uses case like when we just started business, but It definitely needs more attention to fit our needs. We finally opted for a more specialized product to keep track of our finance.

Eerder overwogen alternatieven: OpenProject en monday.com

Redenen om voor ActiveCollab te kiezen: I tried a lot of PM systems, to the point where I was considering rolling my own. I settled a few years with OnlyOffice, which is honestly respectable and reasonably priced product. But over the years they focused on online document editing and left project management without filling the gaps. In the project management area, Active collab wins easily. It just much better designed and more featured product. Project Management was clealry not a priority for OnlyOffice team.

Redenen om over te stappen op ActiveCollab: ActiveCollab is honestly better than most I have used or tried. I am a bit demanding person when it comes to software, and ActiveCollab just clicked in my head. Like it's very intuitive, gets the job done quickly, Not missing important feature.

Good choice for a basic project management tool but lacking when compared to Basecamp

Opmerkingen: ActivaCollab is still at the initial stage in terms of features even though they have been in the market for a couple of years. It serves our initial purpose of tasking team mates and tracking task conversation and progress but not more than that. Based on that, our usage is limited to basic tasking and we are considering and exploring migrating to a different system.

Pluspunten:

Onboarding is easy, interface is easy to use and understanding. It's also one of the cheapest option in the market. For features that are not available, the ActiveCollab team is keen to consider adding that feature though during our usage, we didn't really see the feature being rolled out.

Minpunten:

I used to use Basecamp and when compared, there are a lot of features that are lacking in ActiveCollab such as being able to create a Gantt timeline, quite messy grouping of projects on the main home page, not able to add vendors (only can add clients, yet we do not use ActiveCollab to collaborate with clients). As a project management tool, we also would like to see how we can gauge the workload of each team mate and if each team mate might be overload within the day or week, this function at the moment is not available. Completed tasked are being archived and under archived, the completed tasks are not organised according to task list. Some features such as invoicing and budget management cannot be adopted by finance team as they uses a more advanced thou legacy system which includes a whole lot of other functions on top of merely invoicing.

Avis activecollab

Opmerkingen: Despite its lack of communication tools and the limited number of tasks, it is one of the best software for positive business performance.

Pluspunten:

wow what software!!!. it allows me to increase my output and it motivates me and my team.

Minpunten:

Unfortunately the number of tasks is very limited and there is no communication tool

Finally a project management system small businesses can afford

Opmerkingen: We have been using ActiveCollab for around 4 years now and they continue to work on ways to fineness the tool for the better. The support team has always been very responsive -- although we have only had a few SOS calls they AC team reacted quickly and we were able to continue work with very little interruption.

Pluspunten:

Visually easy to see what projects and tasks are priority. I also love the budget tracker which allows me to make sure projects stay on budget. This program is extremely easy to learn to use as both an administrator and a day-to-day user. I have worked with so many project management systems in my career (some at a much higher price point) and ActiveCollab is a true competitor for a fraction of the cost.

Minpunten:

When pulling invoices, I wish we had more options as to how to import the time entry notes. Because we require our team to place notes as to what they were doing for the hours logged - we do spend more time than desired editing invoices once the data is pulled in.

Eerder overwogen alternatieven: Trello, Basecamp en monday.com

Redenen om over te stappen op ActiveCollab: The price point and features offered were hard to compete with --- best decision we've made.