The wave of apptization continues and project management too has been apptized. You will never have to sweat for finding a project management app, but you might so…. in order to find the right one for your business from the many out there. Perhaps, it might not really be the app, but how well you transition your project management activities to an app. That is a real serious thought that you might want to think before eyeing any project management apps.
1. Insightly
Insightly serves 550,000 users in 100 countries through their CRM cum project management offering. Marrying project management with CRM enables adding value as customers find it coherent to take the deal to the next level. The Integrated Project Management app aides to – create milestones, pipelines and tasks for projects; get automatic email reminders; specify roles for contacts; track all email correspondence; view completed tasks and events project-wise; include any files associated with the project; and view task and event reports. Insightly covers all the bases in its service delivery, putting itself at the helm as the #1 CRM in the Google Apps Marketplace. The standard plan @ $7 per user/ month gives you, beside others, unlimited storage and users as well as custom branding. Enterprise plan adds unlimited records to the cart.
2. ONTRAPORT
ONTRAPORT, since 2006 in its stride, became the 102nd fastest growing companies in USA as per Inc500’s list as well as a Red Herring Top 100, and a Forbes Most Promising Companies. It has two pricing schemes – Pro @ $297/month and Team @ $597/month. Both plans include two hours of free implementation. Features include – customizable web forms, task management automation, customizable contact view, track marketing effectiveness, automate anything and create business rules using if/then rule system, flexible payment settings and online publishing.
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3. 10,000ft
2 short years have seen 10,000ft making its presence felt in 27 countries with 30,000 projects and million plus hours clocked. Operating from Seattle, USA, 10,000ft has been conferred Interaction Design Award, SXSW finalist award and an Industrial Design Association Award for design excellence. Pricing plans varies based on the number of members. Upto 5 members plan is priced at $49/month and upto 100 members, $899/month. Projects and storage are unlimited with all plans. Some salient features – matching individual resources to project’s requirements, tracking using tasks and notes, project planning roadmap, real-time status, customizable time entry settings and mobile time tracking.
4. Redbooth
Headquartered in Califronia, Redbooth was found in Barcelona in 2008. Redbooth features all means for reporting to view statuses of progress and milestones, effortlessly create and manage tasks, content managed easily due to the integration with Dropbox, Box, Google Drive. On-premise offers you all the features of Redbooth readied to run on your own systems. The email plug-in lets you remain synced with email clients all the while. Other features include – create tasks by email, Barracuda Copy and SignNow integration, Multi-language support, Role-based permissions, etc. The plans are – Starter (10 users @ $49/month), Pro (20 users @ $99/month), Plus (30 users @ $149/month) and Enterprise (50 users @ $199/month).
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5. ProofHQ
ProofHQ became a business entity in 2007 and its stable product release took place in 2008. ProofHQ assists its customers to review and approve design projects. Features – Create and manage high-quality proofs from over 50 file types including audio-visual files such as MPG, AVI, MOV and both animated and interactive SWF files; create collaborative workflow; integration with popular applications; create proofs stream quickly into the reviewers’ browsers; unique URL for each proof enables display on internet pages in the form of Miniproof which is the perfect replica of the main proof. Services are offered in 3 plans – Standard (20 proofs/month @ 1.5 GB/user), Enterprise (25 proofs/month @ 2.5 GB/user) and Unlimited (unlimited proofs @ 10 GB/user).
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6. Asana
Asana lets project management simple for remotely operated teams/organizations. Asana enables integration of Google Accounts. You can manage user access and monitor their activity. Using company email address to sign up, new users are joined automatically. You can organize and re-organize your Projects quickly into teams and sub-teams in the least amount of time and move/share projects between them. Compile all tasks into one and notify entire teams. Search for specific details across teams and projects in the organization. You can have no limit on teams, tasks, files, projects and discussions. If you have 100+ members, Asana has custom plans laid out.
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7. Acunote
A project management and Scrum software made by Pluron, Inc., Acunote is based in Silicon Valley in California. Acunote provides you with a real-time, web-based, collaboration workspace. The plans offered for 7 users are: Business ($49/month. For additional users, $10/user/month), Corporate ($99/month. For additional users, $20/user/month) and Enterprise ($149/month. For additional users, $30/user/month). Features such as unlimited projects, sprints & wikis, multiple departments and teams, Scrum Agile management, IT and Product management is same across all the 3 plans, however enterprise analytics and enterprise access control & support are offered in the Enterprise plan.
