Most likely the great majority of you has already become familiar with the first review of Online Project Management Tools, so there is no need to explain what an OPMT is. In case you haven’t, please spend some time to read this post, because both reviews will significantly help you to choose the best tool.

In fact at the very beginning we didn’t plan to prepare a couple of reviews dedicated to OPMTs; however after deciding to use such a service to quicken and simplify the working process, we felt the necessity to carry out a thorough research in order to find an even bigger amount of decent OPMTs, ensuring thus the opportunity for everyone to get the tool he/she needs.

Despite the fact that given review should be regarded as a continuation of the first one, there are some distinctive points concerning the way it is written that should be emphasized:

1) In addition to the main characteristic features we decided to mention most important pros and cons (though we tried to be as impartial as possible, you may disagree with us in some cases);

2) At the end of every OPMT description there is a rating, so you can see what our approximate estimation of a certain service is. As you understand there are several points we take into consideration while giving a mark:

- functionality;

- usability and user interface;

- advantages and disadvantages;

- customer support service.

3) Emphasizing the way customer support service works. We sent a letter to every OPMT’s customer support service, so you would be able to see how fast we received responses if we did at all.

4) At the very end of this review we are going to mention “Lampdocs’ choice” OPMT.

As far as the services that we are going to describe are concerned here is the complete list of them (please pay attention that they are listed and described in alphabetical order):

1. 1st Manager
2. ActionThis
3. AjaxWorkspace
4. CentralDesktop
5. Copper
6. DeskAway
7. Huddle
8. Intervarls
9. LightHouse
10. LiquidPlanner
11. OnStage
12. Pelotonics
13. PlanHQ
14. Planzone
15. ProjectManager
16. ProjectSpaces
17. SamePage
18. Staction
19. Wrike

1st Manager

1st Manager represents a decent project management and team collaboration online solution that has an intuitive user interface and is very easy-to-use. 1st Manager can hardly be considered as a multifunctional OPMT, because it includes only the basic tools to plan and monitor your projects. Overall given solution produces quite a positive impression having some nice features you may need. But before we go ahead with the features, advantages and disadvantages of this tool, let’s check the screenshots that were made from our account.

Here is the Project Overview page:

As you understand this is one of the most important pages because it provides all the information about the project, and allows you to do many things: to check all the tasks (current and overdue ones), to check the latest activity, to export the data in .xls, .csv or .txt formats, to generate PDF documentation and etc.

Another important page you will visit a lot is Tasks Page. Here is the way it looks:

Here can do almost everything you need as far as the tasks are concerned: to check the status of a task, to see if there are some comments on a certain task, to check task priority, to learn more about a task (to check task description) and etc.

The last screenshot we are going to check is the Detailed View of a Task:

Here you can get or edit all the information about a task, edit alarms, change status, assign users and etc. Moreover as you can see there is an opportunity to comment on tasks.

Now as you have an idea about this solution we can proceed to its main characteristic features:

• Simplicity and intuitiveness
• Multilingual support (currently just 3 languages, 5 more coming soon)
• You can choose the version you like (hosted solution, own installation or even source code option)
• Opportunity to create project templates
• SSL enables browsing
• Exporting all the data in an appropriate format (Excel, PDF, CSV, Text, iCal and etc.) and may others.

Finally let’s see what the most important pros and cons of this OPMT are:
+ rich text formatting (tasks and comments)
+ ability to enlarge and decrease the editing window
+ description for tasks
+ commenting on tasks
+ priority for the tasks
+ Gantt chart view
+ a lot of ways to configure alarms (notifications)
+ detailed reports

Related posts:

1. Back to Online Project Management Tools: Part 4
2. Back to Online Project Management Tools: Part 3
3. Back to Online Project Management Tools: Part 2
4. Online Project Management Tools Part 1
5. Online Project Management Tools – Part 3

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