Back to Online Project Management Tools: Part 3
Project Spaces
ProjectSpaces is a simple and powerful online collaboration solution, which provides a flexible set of online project management and community features to help groups of people manage documents, coordinate projects and activities, and share knowledge and information. Although given tool is really easy to use and is loaded with just right features for online collaboration and project management, its interface leaves much to be desired.
Here is the first screenshot to check – Workplan page:
On this page you can see just activities (projects) and the tasks which refer to them. In addition to that there is an opportunity to export the data.
The next page is Task View with Comments:
Unfortunately there is no detailed info about a task, so the only thing that can be mentioned here as an advantage is opportunity to comment on tasks.
The last thing to check is Discussions page:
Given page is too simple – there are no even rich formatting options, just the opportunity to post a message, which cannot be edited, but deleted.
Main characteristic features:
- Telephone support
- Daily backups of data
- SSL encryption
- Seven different packages, unfortunately there is no free one
- Custom domain and color scheme, and etc.
Pros and cons:
+ commenting on projects, tasks and files
+ separate panel for discussions
+ Announcements panel (like blog)
+ Calendar panel
+ Gantt chart view for tasks
+ ability to send files as emails
+ descriptions for projects and tasks
+ separate panel for files
- no subtasks
- no way to edit comments
- no task priority
- rich text formatting just for announcements
- not attractive interface
Customer support service
We didn’t get the response at all.
Project Mark: 4-
SamePage
Same-Page eStudio being a multifunctional project management solution does a great job of improving workflow and enhancing communication between team members and clients. It has some really nice extra features (video conferencing, live chats, presentation and etc.), which may be very useful for some users. As far as the standard features are concerned there are just few things to be added, but in general Same-Page produces very decent impression; so you should spend some time to check it.
The first screenshot is Project Overview with Comments page:
Nice feature of this page consists in the fact that you can access all the things related to the project: milestones, tasks, resources, charts, files and issues. Moreover, as you see, you can comment on projects.
Another screenshot we are going to check is Task List page:
Here you get the most important data concerning your tasks: status, % of fulfillment, responsible team member and worklog.
The last screenshot is Discussions page:
In fact given page is very similar to a forum having topics, discussion lists, posts and etc. Very nice thing about it is that there are rich formatting options.
Main characteristic features:
- Live chats
- Opportunity to create polls
- Issue management
- Team mail
- Free training and etc.
Pros and cons:
+ commenting on projects
+ rich text formatting
+ separate panel for discussions
+ ability to add issues for tasks
+ ability to create conference
+ ability to create presentations
+ priority for tasks
+ detailed reports (including Gantt charts)
+ separate panel for files
- no subtasks
- no comments for files
- no comments for tasks
Customer support service
We get the response within 24 hours.
Project Mark: 4+
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