Back to Online Project Management Tools: Part 3
Planzone
Planzone is an efficient online project management solution that provides you a set of intuitive tools, designed for optimizing collaboration on projects involving both internal and external resources: to-do list, project planning, document sharing and etc. Planzone doesn’t require your team to be trained for using it, because it was designed to help you feel comfortable in your workspace for an intuitive and simple usage. Moreover there is opportunity to share your templates with internal teams as well as the online Planzone community.
As for the screenshots here is the first one – Activities page:
Given page provides you all the information about your project activities: milestones, tasks, discussions (comments on a project), project status and duration. It gives you an opportunity to control tasks without checking Tasks page (To-dos page).
Here is the way page with task lists (To-dos page) looks:
There are nothing to mention, except task priority and comments. However you can get a detailed view of a task just by clicking it once.
Main characteristic features:
- An intuitive and comprehensive design
- Opportunity to share Planzone pages via email
- SSL encryption
- Five different packages: free, individual, team, business and enterprise.
- Interactive scheduling tool and etc.
Pros and cons:
+ commenting on projects, files and activities
+ detailed reports
+ ability to create Wiki pages
+ commenting on tasks and files
+ Gantt chart view for activities
+ decent interface
+ task priority
+ descriptions for projects and tasks
- no subtasks
- no separate panel for discussions (in fact you don’t need one, because you can discuss and comment everything)
- no way to edit comments (just delete)
- rich text formatting just for Wiki pages
Customer support service
We didn’t get the response at all.
Project Mark: 4-
Project Manager
Project Manager represents a web-based project management software that is simple and intuitive to use. The main distinctive feature of given solution consists in its interactivity and customizability – it includes a lot of different chats, tables, schemes and etc. Despite the fact that the interface of this tool, which is pretty attractive, is considered to be one of its important advantages, some users do not like it at all, because they have a feeling that developers spend too much time to create nice-looking interface instead of improving the functionality of the service.
For now let’s check the screenshots of the most important pages. The first one is Dashboard:
It’s a very informative page; moreover you can easily customize it the way you want. However the main problem is that there are too many charts and schemes, and no plain text, which sometimes may be even more useful.
The next screenshot is Tasks page:
As you can see this page is very rich in content containing: implemented Gantt chart, well organized task lists, detailed task information (general, notes, change, issue, link, resources, risk), and etc. The only thing that missed here is opportunity to comment on tasks.
Another page to mention is Issue page:
Though it’s not as informative as the previous one, it provides all the information you need as far as issues are concerned: description, status, level, opportunity to edit or delete, and relate an issue with a task.
Main characteristic features:
- Attractive interface
- MS Project integration
- Free client access
- SSL 128bit encryption
- Just one package (that cannot suit everyone) and etc.
Pros and cons:
+ issue tracking
+ priority for tasks
+ very detailed reports
+ implemented Gantt chart
+ ability to create subtasks
+ descriptions for projects and tasks (as notes)
+ separate panel for files
- no comments on projects, tasks and files
- no text formatting options
- no separate panel for communication
Customer support service
We didn’t get any response at all.
Project Mark: 4-
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