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		Related Products Project Insight Project Insight is project and portfolio management software built for growing teams and businesses. It brings all your project work together from across departments and software tools, helping you streamline workflows, automate processes, and make faster, more accurate decisions with real-time data. Manage work dynamically at the project, program, and portfolio levels to keep teams aligned and focused on strategic goals. Roll up details like status, resources, budgets, and risks instantly, so you can stay ahead of challenges and drive results. Connect Project Insight with the tools you already use — including Azure DevOps, Jira, Microsoft Project, Salesforce, and ServiceNow — to reduce manual work, break down silos, and improve collaboration across your organization. Leverage AI to predict future capacity, balance workloads, and suggest the best resources for every project. Use AI-powered search to quickly surface project data and keep work moving forward. 101 Ratings Visit Website Planview Portfolios Planview® Portfolios enables enterprises to accelerate strategic execution by seamlessly integrating business and technology planning, optimizing resources, and leveraging the power of embedded AI — Planview Anvi™ — to deliver breakthrough products, services, and customer experiences. This unified approach aligns strategy with execution, driving enhanced business performance across the organization. By empowering teams to strategically allocate resources and accelerate high-priority initiatives, Portfolios helps organizations adapt to change and respond to shifting market demands with greater agility. It increases speed-to-value, improves responsiveness, and ensures that every strategic investment delivers measurable business impact. To support end-to-end work orchestration, Planview Portfolios provides robust, comprehensive capabilities across five key pillars that work together to drive organizational success — Strategy, Planning, Execution, Analytics & Reporting, and AI. 202 Ratings Visit Website Kantata Kantata PSA, formed by a merger between Mavenlink and Kimble Apps, is a powerful collection of operational management, resource optimization, business intelligence, integration, and workflow automation functionality that optimizes resources and elevates operational performance. A resource-first architecture, Kantata enables services businesses to field the best team, every time and see up-to-the-minute progress against timelines and budgets so projects run smoothly, predictably, and profitably. Kantata is purpose-built to help consultancies and professional services organizations with 50 to 5000+ employees. 2,255 Ratings Visit Website Planfix The Planfix platform allows organizations to manage their entire business online. Regardless of company size and industry, Planfix has something to offer as an excellent project and work management tool. With Planfix, your company gets a fully customizable management system, from process design to appearance. The integrated Planfix platform allows users to manage tasks and projects, CRM, sales, marketing, production, logistics, support services, finance, and human resources all at once. Data transfer between teams is seamless — for example, transactions during the implementation stage become projects, which are then transferred to support. We believe that Planfix is suitable for private businesses, nonprofits, public organizations, and any other group working towards a common goal. More than 68,000 users use Planfix to automate business workflows in over 7,000 companies. 58 Ratings Visit Website Acuity PPM Acuity PPM provides Senior Leaders and Project Management Teams (PMO's) with easy-to-use portfolio management software to manage the project portfolio. Acuity PPM provides a Work Intake module to support demand management and helps you create and evaluate new project requests through prioritization, financial planning and resource management (capacity planning). Once a request is approved, project teams can track project progress with centralized status reports, track key milestones, risks, issues, financial plans, decisions, lessons learned, project and portfolio roadmaps, and resource plans in Acuity PPM. This helps leadership teams select the right projects for the organization. Connect to common Project Management tools such as Jira, Smartsheet, Asana, Wrike, Monday.com, and others. Our implementations are measured in days, not weeks or months like many vendors. Get started quickly and give leadership the single source of truth they need to accomplish strategic goals. 35 Ratings Visit Website Zoho Projects Project management, as effective as it gets. Zoho Projects is a cloud-based project management tool that helps you plan your work, track it efficiently, and collaborate with your team wherever they are. Plan your project activities, assign work, manage resources and collaborate with your team better to get things done on time. Use Gantt charts to build your project plan and track your task schedule. Zoho Projects keeps you aware of your critical tasks and their dependencies, and immediately shows any deviations between your planned and actual progress. Save time on routine tasks. Whether you have a simple process or a complex workflow, our project management software has a drag-and-drop interface that makes new automations easier to visualize and deploy. Log billable and non-billable hours with the Projects timesheet module. Record every minute of your hard work, either manually or with timers, and our built-in integration with Zoho Invoice will generate invoices. 1,808 Ratings Visit Website Semrush Semrush One is an all-in-one digital marketing platform designed to help brands win visibility across search engines, AI platforms, and emerging discovery channels. It unites traditional SEO tools with advanced AI search and GEO capabilities to measure and grow brand presence everywhere users search. The platform supports optimization across Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and more from a single interface. Semrush One offers toolkits for SEO, content marketing, traffic analysis, local search, advertising, social media, AI visibility, and digital PR. Powered by one of the world’s largest AI-driven marketing databases, it delivers deep insights competitors can’t easily replicate. Enterprises and marketers use Semrush One to forecast traffic, revenue, and ROI with confidence. Trusted by millions of professionals and global brands, Semrush One acts as a central growth engine for digital visibility. 6,303 Ratings Visit Website Planview AdaptiveWork Planview® AdaptiveWork (formerly Clarizen) is a versatile portfolio, project, and work management software embedded with practical AI capabilities that adapts to how you operate so you can proactively plan and deliver any type and size of portfolio, project, and work. Whether you manage IT initiatives, business projects, R&D programs, or professional services, AdaptiveWork provides ready-to-use capabilities whether you’re just starting, expanding and growing, or ready to scale into a full enterprise-wide strategy execution machine. Key Capabilities Ready on Day One - Artificial Intelligence - Portfolio Management - Project Management - Resource Planning - Team Collaboration Thousands of global customers across 124 countries, including industry leaders such as Cognizant, Benifex, Dell, Publicis Groupe, JLL, IBM, and Siemens Energy, rely on AdaptiveWork to drive their business success. The platform's versatility makes it suitable for various industries. 706 Ratings Visit Website Connecteam Connecteam is an award-winning all-in-one employee management solution for daily operations, communications, and human resource management. With Connecteam you can manage every aspect of your business on the go, no workstation needed. Easily engage and manage non-desk employees with Connecteam’s mobile-first platform that helps improve communication, enhance daily processes and increase productivity with custom checklists, forms, and reports. Schedule shifts and track accurate work hours with Connecteam’s automated GPS time clock and easily export approved timesheets to payroll. Connecteam helps you keep your employees sharp thanks to knowledge base centers and advanced training courses. Raise morale with employee recognition rewards and keep the entire company updated through the main news feed. Simplify employee communication, enhance professional skills, manage daily tasks and so much more, all in one app and for an affordable price. 8,878 Ratings Visit Website Jellyfish Jellyfish, a leading Software Engineering Intelligence platform, helps engineering, product, and finance leaders build healthier, higher-performing R&D teams. We surface actionable insights on team health, investment allocation, and delivery, while offering purpose-built solutions to improve developer experience, streamline software capitalization, and measure the impact of AI tools like Copilot, Cursor, and AmazonQ. Over 500 organizations and 11,000 engineering teams—including GoodRX, Varo, Priceline, and PagerDuty—trust Jellyfish to optimize engineering operations so their teams can focus on what matters most. Learn more at jellyfish.co. 411 Ratings Visit Website
About Asana helps teams orchestrate their work–from daily tasks to strategic cross-functional initiatives. With Asana, teams are more confident, move faster, and accomplish more with less—no matter where they are located. More than 119,000 paying customers and millions of free organizations across 190 countries rely on Asana to manage everything from company objectives to digital transformation to product launches and marketing campaigns. In Asana, you can track the status of initiatives with ease and get an accurate view of how you’re progressing towards goals. Report on project progress in minutes with real-time work reporting to create visibility for teams and stakeholders. Join millions of users getting work done with a free trial.	About Organize teamwork with Microsoft Planner. Take the chaos out of teamwork and get more done! Planner makes it easy for your team to create new plans, organize and assign tasks, share files, chat about what you’re working on, and get updates on progress. Launch Planner from the Office 365 app launcher with a single click. You can then create a new plan, build a team, assign tasks, and update status—in a few easy steps. Each plan has its own board, where you can organize tasks into buckets. You can categorize tasks based on their status or on whom they’re assigned to. To update the status or change assignments, just drag and drop tasks between columns. The My Tasks view provides a comprehensive list of all your tasks and their status across all your plans. When working together on a plan, team members always know who is working on what. Built for Office 365, Planner lets you attach files to tasks, work together on those files, and even have conversations around tasks.
Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook	Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook
Audience Teams of all sizes and in various industries	Audience Teams that need a collaboration, project management, and task planning solution
Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online	Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online
API Offers API	API Offers API
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Pricing Free Free Version Free Trial	Pricing $5 per month Free Version Free Trial
Reviews/Ratings Overall 4.7 / 5 ease 4.6 / 5 features 4.6 / 5 design 4.6 / 5 support 4.7 / 5 Read all reviews	Reviews/Ratings Overall 4.9 / 5 ease 5.0 / 5 features 4.8 / 5 design 4.9 / 5 support 5.0 / 5 Read all reviews
Training Documentation Webinars Live Online In Person	Training Documentation Webinars Live Online In Person
Company Information Asana Founded: 2008 United States www.asana.com	Company Information Microsoft Founded: 1975 United States products.office.com/en-us/business/task-management-software
Alternatives Planview AdaptiveWork Planview	Alternatives Zoho Projects Zoho
Planfix	Asana
Process Street	Smartsheet Smartsheet.com
monday.com	Tempo Portfolio Manager Tempo Software
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