Accelo vs Hive | TrustRadius

Likelihood to Recommend

Accelo is a system that can do it all. It's extremely sophisticated. Depending on the sophistication of your organization, or specifically the abilities of the people you put in charge of the implementation, it can almost be too sophisticated. It all just depends on your situation. The more you use it, the more data you give it, the more you'll be able to see and do. It's incredibly powerful. But it's definitely not a tool that would be appropriate for smaller boutique type organizations that have only basic needs.

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Charles Fashana, MBA

COO (Chief Operating Officer)

19 IDEASMarketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Hive will fit right in to any workflow that manages multiple projects. It's also a great fit for collaboration on a per-project basis as external users can collaborate with paid users. Across a very large team it would take more planning on how to fit multiple workflows and groups into the workspace but it can be done.

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Verified User

Project Manager in Marketing

Higher Education Company, 501-1000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Accelo

Hive

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

Hive

Quotes/estimates

Invoicing

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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Verified User

Manager in Marketing

Marketing and Advertising Company, 1-10 employees

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Very intuitive user interface that makes project management, tracking and collaboration easy. Multiple project visualisation options (Gantt, Kanban, calendars, tables)
Great integration with a large number of tools

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C-Level Executive in Corporate

Computer Software Company, 11-50 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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Ryan Freeman

President

Strider Inc.Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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You can't move urgent actions to the top.
It takes a little too much time to load up on the desktop version.
There's definitely room for improvement in keyboard shortcuts.

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Verified User

Employee in Sales

Hospital & Health Care Company, 11-50 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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No answers yet

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Usability

Accelo 7.0

Based on 1 answer

No answer on this topic is available.

Hive 9.0

Based on 1 answer

I love Hive so much because it has made a huge difference regarding team communication and project management at the same time. We experienced almost no bugs and in the few cases that we did have some trouble, the customer service team was very responsive and solved our problems very quickly.

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Verified User

Employee in Sales

Hospital & Health Care Company, 11-50 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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Hive 8.8

Based on 6 answers

Our CSR is easily accessible and they have support built into the app itself. They also have a pretty robust support site. We also took advantage of the free trial and learned so much by putting Hive through the paces and figuring out the best way to mold it to our needs.

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Verified User

Project Manager in Marketing

Higher Education Company, 501-1000 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 would say that in comparison to Asana, Hive is a better interface an UI. I think Asana is more robust in terms of what it can do in conjunction with Confluence but I think Hive is a better entry-level model for new employees. Hive is much simpler and more straight forward and its integration with Slack is preferred.

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John Bianchi

Director of Accounts

Business Optimization SpecialistsMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 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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Positive ROI comes from our whole team being on the same board. We used to have separate boards for each group.

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Cameron Michael Rhoads

Content Supervisor

AceableE-Learning, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

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

—

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Hive Editions & Modules

—

Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

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Likelihood to Recommend

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Feature Rating Comparison

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

Quotes/estimates

Invoicing

Project & financial reporting

Integration with accounting software

Pros

Accelo

Hive

Cons

Accelo

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Likelihood to Renew

Accelo

Hive

Usability

Accelo

Hive

Support Rating

Accelo

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Alternatives Considered

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Return on Investment

Accelo

Hive

Screenshots

Accelo

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Accelo Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Hive Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

Rating Summary

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