Buyer’s Guide
Buyer’s Guide to Online Project Management Tools
So you’re in the market for an online project management tool. Fantastic, you’ve come to the right Web site! But as you browse through and evaluate different products and services on offer, from dozens of vendors, do you know what you should be looking for?
- Do you understand the basics of pricing and licensing within the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) world?
- What about the dramatic variations in feature sets between tools, some of which aim for massive enterprise-level project teams, and some simply to take the features of Microsoft Project or spreadsheets online?
- How important is the ability to integrate with your existing data, applications, or processes?
This guide is written as short and sweet as we could get it – it’s a starting point to help you better understand the world of online project management tools and (hopefully) make a more informed buying decision. Consider it a constantly evolving work in progress, just like the rest of this site, as new features, vendors, and pricing models are constantly arising in the rapidly moving world of hosted applications.
Contents:
- Going Online – The Basics to Consider
- Understand the Roots: What Problem Did the Vendor Try to Solve?
- Pricing: Per User or Per Project, and Don’t Forget the Storage
- Plug it in: Third-Party Integrations
- Go for a Test Drive: The Free Trial
- How Steep is the Learning Curve? Complexity vs Simplicity (coming soon)
- The Importance of Mobile (coming soon)
- Variations in Support Models (coming soon)
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