Accelo vs Asana | TrustRadius

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Score 7.2 out of 10

Based on 17 reviews and ratings

Score 8.4 out of 10

Based on 1285 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Accelo

Asana

Task Management

Resource Management

Gantt Charts

Scheduling

Workflow Automation

Team Collaboration

Support for Agile Methodology

Support for Waterfall Methodology

Document Management

Email integration

Mobile Access

Timesheet Tracking

Change request and Case Management

Budget and Expense Management

Accelo

Asana

Project & financial reporting

Integration with accounting software

Pros

Timing Client Work: You are able to better manage your time on your clients.
Housing Client Info in one Area: You can view all you need for any given client in one area.

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Manager in Marketing

Marketing and Advertising Company, 1-10 employees

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Timelines: With Asana, you can create Gantt charts that show you preceding/needed action items. When a part of a project is delayed, you can track how that will affect the forward trajectory of the project.
User management / Roles in relationship to tasks: Asana allows you to see individual users and assign them tasks in an overall project, while also being able to see what items are needed as a whole. It allows you to see who is doing what and when.

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CEO (Chief Executive Officer)

Simply Heaven DesignMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Cons

Cumbersome processes - feels like tasks take longer than they should.
We gave up on the Projects module, it was rather unintuitive. Switched to JIRA, which integrates with the Support module of Accelo.
Each email address requires a new contact. If one person uses multiple email addresses to contact you, that info will have to be spread across multiple contacts.

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President

Strider Inc.Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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The inbox feature can be a little overwhelming if you are work with Asana just from its project boards and only checking it periodically. It would be great if it auto-cleared once a project/task is marked complete.
Email notifications can get excessive. You have complete control over them but initially, they can be annoying until you set the frequency you want them. It would be better if this was set during the sign-up process.
Notes, discussions, and attachments in subtasks sometimes go unnoticed if working from the main project board.

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Director of Marketing & Communications

787 NetworksMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Accelo 9.0

Based on 1 answer

Looking forward to seeing more refinement of features provided and upcoming features promised :)

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Brendon O'Sullivan

Managing Director

Bos Web SystemsInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Asana 9.5

Based on 35 answers

Asana is adding more useful features and it makes the work of their entire team more organized and more efficient. It really helps us in achieving greater achievements as a team. It helps us to earn more revenue since we have more satisfied clients, simply because we are able to finish their project on time or even before the due date.

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Brent Lionel Mausisa

Co-Founder

2for1 Virtual ExpertsInternet, 1-10 employees

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Usability

Accelo 7.0

Based on 1 answer

No answer on this topic is available.

Asana 9.0

Based on 24 answers

It is very user-friendly. Takes a new employee an hour to start figuring out how the system works. That's an important factor. You don't want to encounter the issue where employees need a week to understand how the system works. For example, JIRA, I tried using it for a week and I still don't understand the complicated layout. Asana has a simple interface. Once you see it, you get it type of program.

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Manager in Information Technology

Internet Company, 1-10 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

No answers yet

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Asana 8.4

Based on 4 answers

Working with Asana on a daily basis

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Project Manager

ClickSoftwareComputer Software, 501-1000 employees

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Support Rating

Accelo 7.4

Based on 4 answers

From the beginning the Accelo team has been very invested in ensuring our success and overall happiness with the platform. The initial implementation specialists and trainers did a fairly good job of learning our company and needs, and tried to tailor the trainings accordingly. However, once we made the formal switch to the platform, meaning we no longer were using our legacy systems, we found that we had a lot of questions....and a lot of ideas and recommendations. The support team is extremely responsive and seemingly happy to receive our continual feedback. And if we encounter an issue that seems to be a system issue, they work diligently to fix it (we've actually had an engineer join a call with us to learn of the issue - and subsequently fix it)

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Charles Fashana, MBA

COO (Chief Operating Officer)

19 IDEASMarketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Asana 7.8

Based on 94 answers

They don't fix everything, but they have certainly gone the extra mile for us. When we were frustrated with a recent change that altered our default view of every project, changing it from all projects being visible to just incomplete projects being visible, they wrote a custom script to change all of our default views back for us, so we didn't have to manually click 3,000 times (we have over a thousand projects).

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Product Management

Internet Company, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We used Workfront prior to using Accelo, mainly for project management and retainer management. There is no comparison between the two as Accelo blows it away.

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Chris Osterhout

Vice President of Business Strategy

WSOLInternet, 11-50 employees

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I currently use Trello to manage social content instead of Asana. It's very easy to view content, drag and drop cards/tasks and tag colleagues in items that need attention. However, I prefer Asana from a project management standpoint and think that it's a much superior platform overall. Our agency uses Lattice for people management and performance reviews, which is different than Asana but I think functions similarly. There are places to input goals/tasks, enter in updates and view progress on outstanding items.

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Senior Specialist, Influencer Marketing

EmpowerMarketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees

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Scalability

No score

No answers yet

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Asana 8.2

Based on 1 answer

I used this tool on a daily basis at work and it runs as a solid rock

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Project Manager

ClickSoftwareComputer Software, 501-1000 employees

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Return on Investment

Helps with tracking prospects through the sales/marketing funnel
Has led some employees to stop using the tool and going back to spreadsheets. When trying to attach targets to tags you need to do so individually and if you upload a large list you need to do this manually, one by one, and requires a lot of time. So people have gone back to spreadsheets where they could simply just cut and paste new people in.

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Verified User

Professional in Marketing

Computer & Network Security Company, 51-200 employees

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Asana helped us complete the massive project of redesigning our company's website
Asana has helped me in my weekly meetings with my manager because I can clearly see what I accomplished the previous week and what I'm currently working on
Asana encourages collaboration and teamwork

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Digital Marketing Specialist

MedVetCivic & Social Organization, 501-1000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

* Per Installation

Accelo Editions & Modules

Edition

Projects (Per Month on Annual Contract)	$39¹
Sales (Per Month on Annual Contract)	$39¹
Retainers (Per Month on Annual Contract)	$39¹
Service (Per Month on Annual Contract)	$39¹
ServOps (Per Month on Annual Contract)	$79¹

per user

Additional Pricing Details

ServOps is the all-in-one solution which includes Projects, Retainers, Sales and Service together.

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

$10*

* per user per month

Asana Editions & Modules

Edition

Premium	$13.49¹
Business	$30.49¹

Per Month

Additional Pricing Details

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