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DeskAway – Project Management in the Middle
DeskAway is a new project management service that sits between the very basic and the very advanced project management tools. There’s certainly a sweet market for tools like DeskAway – the keys are marketing and user adoption. Right now 37Signals appears to dominate the small business semi-geeky project management space with Basecamp. CN sponsor Zoho also offers a popular project management service called Zoho Projects.
The tool itself is your pretty standard Web project management tool. Nothing really stood out as an "omg" type feature – except apparently there is some chatter across the Web that DeskAway’s reporting features are stronger than those provided by 37Signals.
I like their "10 reasons" page — they need to add more comparisons to other players in the market. To win at this game in the U.S., DeskAway has to get more aggressive. Or start outside, perhaps in their home India and then move here once user adoption grows. Pricing starts at ad-supported free through their top plan at $99/month.
Another time tracking service we reviewed (actually it was one of our first reviews!) is Toggl. They launched a new version back in February and so far I hear very positive things.
We’ve tried google docs and some other products… our team didn’t really “connect” to any of them.
But we love YouFig (www.youfig.com). It supports all of the privacy and administrative features your company needs and gives you a huge range of applications to work with (documents, spreadsheets, calendars, videos, file sharing, unlimited storage, unlimited users, unlimited workspaces)… and it’s free, which really *really* tops it off.
Sounds like yet another application that tries to capture all projects and tasks in an online “bucket.” Are there any features which drive the completion of those tasks and projects? And to what extent must users change the way they work to take advantage of all of the task management and project management features on offer?
Here at ActionThis, we’re also a believer in delivering value – lots of features for a reasonable price. We’re helping thousands of users work together in teams, using the tools they use everyday – Microsoft Outlook, Excel, with others on the way, as well as an easy to use Web user interface.
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Outstanding listing! Another valid candidate for the time tracking catagory is TSheets. With Jott.com integration, clock in/out via SMS, and iPhone mobile time tracking app, and new and improved QuickBooks integration, there’s something for just about everyone at TSheets.