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Microsoft Project

Microsoft Project is a flexible tool for project management, which is delivered through Microsoft Office 365. It is a comprehensive project management solution that has been designed for businesses of all sizes, from SMB to large corporations. Microsoft Project enables businesses to get started, manage project portfolio investments, and then successfully deliver projects, on time, with value. Microsoft Project provides your business with a powerful, visually enhanced way to efficiently manage a wide range of projects and programs. From meeting important deadlines, to choosing the correct resources, Microsoft Project provides new and intuitive ways to plan, collaborate with various individuals and teams, and manage projects successfully. For instance, a noteworthy feature of Microsoft Project is the ability to easily copy project information to Office apps such as PowerPoint and save important data to Office 365 or SharePoint. A key feature of Microsoft Project is the ability to add new tasks or revise the organization of a project, midway through it. Because, as you well know, the goal posts can (and often do) change during a project. Microsoft Project lets you work efficiently and effectively, as you are able to prioritize tasks and can manage your projects effectively from anywhere. Microsoft Project also comes with project budgeting tools that can help you estimate the costs for the entire span of a project. With tools for project scheduling that allow you to define tasks, and assign them to various teams, along with having the ability to track assignments, you will always have a clear vantage point, to oversee projects from. Reporting With Microsoft Project you can create extensive reports and analyses directly from the platform. The functions are very similar to those of Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word, so will be familiar to many users. Multi Language Microsoft Project supports the following languages: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish Pricing Microsoft Project uses a subscription pricing model with plans and pricing available on request from Microsoft. There is also a free trial available (no credit card required). Bottom Line Microsoft Project offers flexibility and choice by providing tailored work management solutions for individuals, teams, and enterprises. With interactive dashboards and reporting functionalities, project managers can prepare insightful reports and make executive decisions regarding key issues, such as time scales and staffing levels. Microsoft Project can be deployed both on-premise and in the cloud. The advantage of the web-based version is that it allows project managers to collaborate with their team remotely using smartphones and mobile devices. Overall, Microsoft Project is exceptionally intuitive and provides a great balance of complexity and usability. It is used in various industries, including government, manufacturing, construction, pharmaceuticals, retail, financial, and health care services.

Harvest

Harvest is an excellent time tracking application. It is very simple to use, yet simultaneously is quite powerful. In addition to tracking time it enables you to track your expenses and keep a watchful eye on accounts. Harvest lets you track time from anywhere and at anytime, no matter what device you are using, be it a PC, Mac, mobile device, or via a desktop widget. The built-in reporting tools can analyze your data so you don’t have to. You can also set hourly and fee-based budgets to track your project’s progress. With Harvest you can run reports on billable and non-billable time for specific staff, tasks, clients, and projects. This is really useful as it gives you a much deeper insight into your current workloads, and historical records to help improve your next project. Harvest can fit seamlessly into your current workflow. With integration into over 80 popular apps, from project management to accounting software. It lets you track time with minimal changes to the way your team works best. Projects Creating a project with Harvest is easy. You complete the details for all the standard questions; client name, budget, notes etc and the tool will auto populate the information you need. You can also fill in a Project Code, which is a useful tool for larger teams and organizations. Harvest will also allow you to fill in a budget, measured in total project hours, fees, hours per task, or hours per person. Budget reports can then be share with everyone on the project (employees and contractors), or you can decide to keep them private. Upon creating a project, Harvest will ask you to then configure tasks for it. Time Tracking A stand out feature of Harvest is the time-tracking tool. By default, Harvest uses decimal notation for times, but converts conventional times seamlessly into this format. With Harvest you can log expenses in addition to hours. To log an expense, you simply need to choose a project and a category, and specify the amount. Usefully, you can also attach a scanned receipt and add notes. Pricing Harvest operates a subscription pricing model and has three pricing structures on top of the free service. The first tier, Solo, starts at $12.00/month rising to $99/month for the Business tier, which includes ten users, unlimited clients, projects and invoicing. The service also has a free option, for which you can have one user, four clients and two projects for $0/month. Bottom Line Harvest is a serious time tracking tool in almost all respects. It has robust reporting features, built-in invoicing, expense tracking and estimates. These tools and others make it a good solution for a small business or a team within a larger enterprise.

Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 is Microsoft’s cloud collaboration suite (formerly known as Office 365), which provides a secure space to store, edit and share files and documents. It has a vast array of tools that can help to connect dispersed teams using shared calendars, messaging and conferencing tools. The business class email provides 50 GB of storage per user, and is able to send messages up to 25 MB in size. This is great for sending images and applying custom formatting. With Microsoft 365 you can customize inbox rules and notifications, and update your calendar and to-do list, in order to help you prioritize your tasks. The online chat and instant messaging tools let you communicate with colleagues more effectively along with one-to-one, or one-to-many voice and video calling. Some great features of Microsoft 365 are the collaboration and knowledge sharing tools for both internal and external purposes. Documents can be accessed and viewed by clients, and you can also create project-specific mailboxes and websites that can be tailored for specific teams, complete with automatic policies. Instant Messaging With Microsoft 365 you can use your computer for video calls and are able to conduct online meetings or connect with your co-workers via instant messaging. File Sharing The ability to share your work with others, and be able to collaborate together, is a must-have feature of today’s modern office. Microsoft 365 lets you store and organize your most important documents easily, with 10GB of overall storage to work with, you'll never run out of space to store what you need. Calendars and Email You no longer have to be tied to your desktop in order to view emails and organise your calendar. With Microsoft 365 and a smart device, you carry your email and calendar with you, wherever you go. Calendars and Email can be accessed from any supported computer or smart device that has an Internet connection. Multi Language Microsoft 365 supports the following languages: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. Supported countries include Australia, Canada, Europe, India, Latin America, Middle-East and Africa, United Kingdom, United States. Pricing Microsoft 365 uses a subscription pricing model, with plans starting from $4.00 per month. Microsoft also provides a free trial to test out the software (no credit card required). Bottom Line Microsoft 365 is a secure way to create, store and edit your documents online. Using Microsoft 365 you can run your business with powerful cloud services that don´t require any in-depth IT expertise. You can access your emails, and attend meetings virtually, along with sharing files or creating a professional website. No matter what it is you need, Microsoft 365 helps you be productive on the go. It works with mobile devices such as Windows Phone, iPhone, iPad, Android, Symbian and Blackberry, and can be accessed via Mac OS or Windows OS.

Datadog

Datadog is a monitoring solution, which lets you track your company’s servers, apps and systems. With super useful tools such as custom dashboards, Datadog lets you stay in control. The web based framework that Datadog provides allows you to use the data generated by apps, tools, and other online services and transform it into real world insight. Your business will benefit tremendously from using the Datadog platform. Datadog brings together metrics and events from contrasting sources and lets you view the data in a way that is most beneficial to your business. For instance, IT teams may sign up to receive instant notifications regarding performance problems which are affecting their companies’ apps, whilst development teams may use Datadog for highly flexible cloud deployment. By harnessing data from both areas and bringing it together into a centralized platform, it gives your business a more transparent way to analyse the data. Datadog is designed for IT, operations, and development teams of all sizes. In fact Datadog is used by technology firms across the globe including Intel, Adobe, Salesforce, Zendesk, and Spotify. Graphing Metrics and Events Not only does Datadog collect data from integrated applications, it also provides your business with tools for manipulating and graphing the metrics and events that it tags. The ability to generate graphs, which include real-time data from multiple sources, including popular web services such as Airbrake, RSS, and HipChat, is a really useful function. Datadog will allow you to organize data by host, device, or tag, and the system automatically calculates the rates, ratios, averages, and integrals so you don’t have to. The graphs can be customized to suit the specific needs of your business, and because they are all synced you have the ability to zoom in to focus on specific points of interest. Collaborating IT Data Sources Another useful feature of Datadog is the newsfeed, which brings multiple data sources together. It provides an up to the minute way to gain insight into events on your apps, servers, tools, and other web-services as they happen. Data dog supports services provided by MySQL, Kingdom and Github. Upon installing Datadog’s agent and cloud integrations, you have the ability to bring metrics and events from your cloud services into a centralized location. It gives you ability to drill down and see more information regarding any single event by clicking straight into it. You can even begin a conversation with a team to discuss the cause of specific events or triggers. Sharing Analytics In the process of pulling together graphs and correlating metrics and events, it’s not uncommon for users to notice specific issues or triggers that they’d like to address with their teams. The manual process of sharing this information—usually by copy/pasting images and emailing those files to colleagues—is time consuming and not necessarily productive. Datadog has a great method for sharing analytics between teams. With Datadog you can quickly share insights without wasting time or losing context. For instance, if you see an important data point on a graph, just take a picture, add the details, and press submit. The snapshot and the data you’ve provided, will then appear in the news feed for every member of your team. Datadog gives all members of your team more than enough room to discuss the issue. Integrations Datadog has numerous integrations with various cloud-based tools and services. The solution currently integrates with more than 50 services, including Amazon Web Services, Github, Hadoop, Java, Nodejs, and Pingdom. Pricing Datadog offers a freemium pricing model. Businesses that have up to five hosts are free, rising to $15/month per host for Pro packages. There are limitations placed on amount greater than 500 hosts. Datadog also provides an Enterprise package, but this needs to be specifically requested. Bottom Line Overall, Datadog has some useful, real-time interactive dashboards and correlation tools that overlay metrics and events across various sources. This enables users to focus on specific code changes, which are required to configure updates and schedule jobs.

LeanKit

LeanKit is a project management tool that makes use of kanban boards to show tasks on a calendar. The kanban boards are visual representations of tasks that can be dragged and dropped to show team progress on a specific task. It offers a way to view historical data to analyze performance in much the same way that Wrike does. LeanKit is designed to support businesses scaling Kanban across multiple teams, projects and locations. The solution enables you to connect boards at team, project and portfolio levels, thereby giving everyone the correct level of visibility to assess project status and manage dependencies. LeanKit gives you a transparent window from which to view your business. You can monitor team-level execution, keep track of subtasks for individual work items and produce automatically generated diagrams that represent various data values and metrics. It allows you to visualize work and workflow processes and receive real-time updates about the activity and status of various tasks. This, in turn, gives you a way to spot areas where processes can be further improved. Reporting and Metrics LeanKit uses the data that has been input in cards and then gathers all related factors in a common metrics platform and provides various types of visual reports. This is useful to gain insight into identifying improvement opportunities. In addition, Leankit can produce professional graphical reports on the various parts of the workflow process. This, in turn, can be analysed in order to evaluate the efficiency and productiveness of a specific department. Advanced Kanban Features LeanKit is an enterprise Kanban tool that offers built-in, advanced Kanban features such as policies, class of service, WIP limits and board templates. With these advanced tools, you can improve the flow of your work and increase efficiency across the board. By utilising Kanban you can support continuous improvement at the team and organizational levels of your business. Integrations LeanKit offers pre-built integrations with Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio Online, and Project Server; GitHub and Oracle Primavera. This helps to visualize data in other tools that would previously be covered. Additionally, LeanKit comes with Zapier integrated, meaning over 300 online service apps are supported. Examples include Google, Salesforce, Zendesk, Emma and Hubspot. Pricing LeanKit is available in four different editions; Standard, Select, Advanced and Premium. Standard is priced at $12 per user, per month and is limited to kanban boards, a flexible layout, some board templates and collaboration tools. The Select edition is priced at $19 per user, per month and it offers everything in the Standard edition plus Lean Metrics & Reports, Lane Policies & WIP Limits, Work Item Breakdown, Filtered Work Views and ALM Integrations. The Advanced edition is priced at $32 per user, per month and comes with everything in the Select edition plus Multi-Team Work Distribution, Custom Reporting, Reader Licenses, Enhanced Security and Account Services. Finally the Premium edition is priced at $49 per user, per month and contains everything in the Advanced edition plus Single Sign-on, and Private Cloud functionality. Bottom Line Overall, LeanKit is a software-based visual management tool that can be accessed on any web-enabled device. It has simple drag and drop whiteboard interface, it is suitable for businesses of all sizes and provides advanced metrics and analytical reports. Teams of all sizes can utilise this solution to gain a shared understanding of the details and status of work items, regardless of location, and the Lean metrics and reports can help to assess performance and identify opportunities for improvement.

Workflow Max

WorkflowMax is a project management solution that has been designed to take care of all your business management needs, including project tracking, timesheets, reporting, invoicing, job monitoring, and all other aspects of project management. As WorkFlowMax has been acquired by Xero, is has a seamless integration with Xero’s business software and systems, such as Xero Accounting software. WorkflowMax has a powerful set of project management tools, which works well with companies from across various industries. It allows you to produce complex quotes and invoices in a matter of minutes and then deliver them electronically to your clients. WorkflowMax harnesses the power of the cloud, so you can be anywhere and still be able to manage your business. WorkflowMax has quality integration with more than 25 other systems, including Xero accounting; meaning all invoices created in WorkflowMax are seamlessly pushed into Xero. Lead Manager WorkflowMax gives managers a great way to track leads, proposals, and sales from an integrated pipeline. It uses a Sales Pipeline Management Dashboard that lets you view current leads either by category or by staff. The levels of data that can be gleaned from this tool shouldn’t be underestimated. With insightful tools like these, WorkflowMax lets you see exactly which employees are bringing the most new business into your company. Managers are able to track how well their sales teams are performing, and via integrated email conversations, they can also have a clearer insight into which leads are turning into sales. Generating Quotes WorkflowMax has superior quoting tools that are customizable and have been designed to be formatted how you see fit. The templates can be customized to include your logo and the markup percentages can be altered to let you have better control. The quote can be populated with the lead’s details and designed using WorkflowMax’s tools. This information will then serve as a template for generating additional quotes in the future. If the quote is successful WorkflowMax can transform the data into a job, which can be time tracked. Xero Integration Xero and WorkflowMax work seamlessly together. By creating sales invoices in WorkflowMax, you can easily push the data across to Xero. As the integration between the two is flawless, any payments in Xero are automatically synced with the corresponding invoice in WorkflowMax. This gives you a more accurate view of job productivity. Another really cool feature of WorkflowMax is the ability to send purchase orders and receipt supplier invoices. These are then accordingly pushed to Xero for payment. Because data transfers between the two systems automatically, it eliminates any double-handling, and will enable you to get an accurate view of your business from either WorkflowMax or Xero. Pricing WorkflowMax uses a subscription pricing model with rates starting from $15.00/month for 1 User, with a Free Trial Available (No Credit Card required). For 5 Users the price point increases to US$49/month. For 10 Users US$99/month, and for 20 Users US$149/month. If your company required an unlimited number of users the price hits US$199/month. If you also require the Lead Manager (CRM) module, then you are looking at adding $15 extra per month on top of your rate. All plans come with numerous features including a Client Manager, Quoting/Estimating, Time Sheets, Xero Integration, Document Management, Job Management, Job Costing, Invoicing and Reporting. Bottom Line WorkflowMax is a solid, compact package; meaning you do not need to launch applications from multiple systems, thereby ensuring that you work faster, effectively, and efficiently. As a SaaS product, you can access WorkflowMax and all the data stored within it, easily, anytime and from anywhere. WorkflowMax’s real time data means you have utmost transparency and visibility. It is a powerful, fast, and accurate reporting tools, which means you can instantly gather reliable data, analyze it, and make intelligent plans of action.

TeamSupport

TeamSupport is a customer support solution that uses collaboration features and real-time data in order to better understand customers. This pro active methodology results in being able to deliver support to customers before they're even aware that it's needed. TeamSupport dies not focus exclusively on one-on-one customer communications, rather it encourages full team collaboration in order to resolve ongoing problems. TeamSupport has developed a powerful user interface that puts all relevant customer data in one place. It supports a flexible process flow, and the platform itself is designed in a way that is very intuitive and easy to use. Custom Customer Service Portals Customer Support doesn’t just work between the houses and 9AM and 5PM. With TeamSupport, your organization are able to create self-service portals where customers can help themselves—or each other, no matter what the time of day or night. Custom self-serve customer service portals canoe made very easily and then dropped into your company website. As soon as integration has been completed, customers are able to submit and then follow up on their tickets. They also have access to a knowledge-base, so they can try to answer their own query, along with a community forum, and a collaborative wiki feature. Group Ticketing A cool feature of TeamSupport is group ticketing. When tickets are assigned to a group, rather than to an individual, all members of that group are notified. Your organization can create as many groups as required, and individual users can belong to multiple groups. A great feature of Group Ticketing is the ability to assign it to a group when the creator is unsure of what individual to assign the ticket to. Instead of guessing or selecting the wrong individual, the ticket creator can assign the ticket to a Group. For instance, Support Team, Product Development or QA team. As with all group ticketing, all members of that group will receive a notification, and any of those members are able to take ownership of the ticket. Integrations TeamSupport provides advanced native integrations with a variety of apps and services, including Beanstalk, Dropbox, Highrise, Jira, Mailchimp, NiceReply, Oracle Fusion, Salesforce, and Zoho. TeamSupport is also on the Zapier platform, which allows customers to connect the various web apps they use on a daily basis. TeamSupport also has a robust REST API that has been designed for users who need custom workflow functionality between multiple apps. Pricing TeamSupport offers two plans, starting at $40 per user, per month. Free trials are also available, (no credit card required). Customers can pay monthly by credit card, or they can opt to be invoiced for 6 or 12 months in advance, in order to receive a discount. Plans start from $40 per user, per month for Support Desk. The Enterprise plan is priced at $55* per user, per month. All plans include unlimited support & training, and no implementation charges Bottom Line TeamSupport has been designed and built specifically for B2B software and tech companies. It provides customer support by enhancing real-time internal collaboration and utilising advanced customer service portals, integrated screen recordings, built-in reporting tools, and multi-channel support. The collaboration features help multiple departments work together to build customer relations. With an array of tools to help you gain deeper insight into your customers' needs, you can see why TeamSupport is the CRM of choice for many IT organizations. *Annual Billing.

Gmail

Gmail is the free webmail, POP3, and IMAP email service provided by Google, which is integrated into its suite of web apps. Gmail is available to anyone who signs up for a Google account. Gmail is highly considered to be one of the best Web-based email accounts to have. Unlike its competitors, Gmail has a minimalistic, ad free homepage that is great to look at. As soon as you sign in, you can immediately see your inbox, the left bar shows your email folders and contacts. The service can also be linked to Google Chat. If you are signed in, your online contacts will also appear here, and you can chat to them without leaving the confines of Gmail. Key features include: Mass storage: 7 GB of free storage space available. Less spam: Gmail blocks spam before it gets to your inbox. Built-in chat: supported chat directly in Gmail or talk face to face with voice and video chat. Mobile access: Gmail mobile is available across many platforms. Gmail is fast and reliable and uses excellent spam filters to keep your inbox clean. The settings are easy to use and are highly customizable. You can adjust keyboard shortcuts, allow/ deny automatic images, set signatures and out-of-office auto reply. If you don’t like the original flavor, you can also customize a theme that suits you better too. Overall, Gmail provides a great webmail service. It has support across the board for Google’s apps and services and has a clean and fresh interface that is distraction free and easy to use. It supports offline access and Yahoo!, Hotmail and other mail services can be imported and integrated into your Gmail inbox to give you a well supported service.

Ravetree Project Management

Ravetree is a project management platform that excels at team or collaborative development. Create task cards, add time tracking, and allocate them to people. Display and categorize tasks in the task board, drag and drop them into different columns. Ravetree comes with an Agile toolkit that allows teams to run sprints, manage backlogs, create epics/user stories, and more. Communicate, tag people, and share files all from within a task. Features Include: Native Agile Capabilities Client Portal Real-time Milestone and Financial Visibility Time and Progress Logs Resource Planning Overall, Ravetree Project Management provides a large number of tools that have the capacity to increase productivity and aid collaboration between workers.

MindMeister

MindMeister is an online mind mapping tool, which lets you capture, develop and share ideas visually.This intuitive mind map editor can be used for brainstorming, note taking, project planning and lots of other creative tasks. It is completely web-based, which means there's no download and no updating! It doesn’t matter if you are working from Windows, Mac OS or Linux, you can always access your mind maps from your browser. MindMeister was designed for collaboration. It fully supports real-time working. You and your team can easily alter mind maps together, discuss changes using the MindMeister live chat service and view previous versions of a mind map. MindMeister uses a secure cloud platform that is governed by strong data encryption and monitoring, so you don’t need to download any software to use it. The web-based application for MindMeister works great as a standalone platform, and the Android app allows mobile users to work on the same mind map created from a computer using a web-browser. Both mobile and computer systems will work from the same map stored in the MindMeister cloud. Overall, has good multifunctional uses and ability to work on the same map between computer systems and mobile devices without having a premium accounts is a bonus. The interface is easy to navigate and can be access from any supported browser.

NetSuite OneWorld

NetSuite OneWorld is a leading cloud business management software platform. It has been designed specifically for the needs of high-growth and mid-sized businesses. It provides a single, complete web-based system to all core business processes, including a comprehensive ERP, with solid CRM and e-commerce functionalities. NetSuite OneWorld is the largest edition of the NetSuite series. It comes with all of the functionality available in the NetSuite CRM edition, but it is by far the best choice for businesses with multiple subsidiaries and multinational entities. NetSuite OneWorld is able to handle all of a company’s international transactions and operations, and book them to different subsidiaries. Although you are charged an additional amount for each subsidiary, the cost per subsidiary is fairly reasonable. NetSuite OneWorld isn't just a eCommerce solution, or a CRM system, rather it is a complete set of web-based tools that are designed to handle all of your company’s financial needs: from building an e-commerce site, where customers can place orders; to handling back-office ERP tasks such as payroll processing. NetSuite OneWorld is a financial management solution that is used by thousands of enterprises to cope with their daily accounting needs. By using NetSuite’s financial software you increase your financial insight and have stronger cost control. The streamlined and auditable income control will ensure you gain real-time insight into the financial performance of your company. PricingNetSuite uses a subscription pricing model that starts from $499.00/month. Supported Countries and areas include Asia, Australia, Canada, China, Europe, Germany, India, Japan, Latin America, Middle-East and Africa, United Kingdom, United States. Supported Languages include: Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Taiwanese, Thai Bottom Line NetSuite OneWorld is a comprehensive and powerful platform that provides great integration and a dynamic HTML interface. It really does cover all the bases: from its feature rich, web based accounting tools, with extensive reporting capabilities, and real-time metrics and role-based dashboards, through to its inventory and e-commerce suite. It has everything that your business will need. The software ensures accountability and compliance with comprehensive, auditable accounting suitable for mid sized businesses and large corporations. So, if you are looking for a complete, fully integrated solution, then NetSuite may be just what you need?

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