Active Collab is a project management solution built around features such as task management, collaboration, time tracking, and invoicing.
$8
per member/per month
Oracle Aconex
Score 6.6 out of 10
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Aconex is a cloud collaboration platform for the global construction industry which allows the user to quickly find what is needed with a single source of truth for communications, documents, processes, and models. Aconex was acquired and is now supported by Oracle since 2017.
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ActiveCollab
Oracle Aconex
Editions & Modules
ActiveCollab Project Management
$8
per member/per month
Self-Hosted Plan
$999.00
license
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ActiveCollab
Oracle Aconex
Free Trial
Yes
No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
$6.25 per member, per month, annual billing
No setup fee
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ActiveCollab
Oracle Aconex
Features
ActiveCollab
Oracle Aconex
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
ActiveCollab
3.6
13 Ratings
73% below category average
Oracle Aconex
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Ratings
Task Management
5.112 Ratings
00 Ratings
Resource Management
1.08 Ratings
00 Ratings
Gantt Charts
3.07 Ratings
00 Ratings
Scheduling
1.011 Ratings
00 Ratings
Workflow Automation
7.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Team Collaboration
6.113 Ratings
00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology
7.07 Ratings
00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology
7.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Document Management
3.08 Ratings
00 Ratings
Email integration
4.09 Ratings
00 Ratings
Mobile Access
1.110 Ratings
00 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking
2.09 Ratings
00 Ratings
Change request and Case Management
1.08 Ratings
00 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management
2.07 Ratings
00 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
ActiveCollab
5.7
8 Ratings
30% below category average
Oracle Aconex
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Ratings
Quotes/estimates
6.97 Ratings
00 Ratings
Invoicing
6.96 Ratings
00 Ratings
Project & financial reporting
1.07 Ratings
00 Ratings
Integration with accounting software
7.94 Ratings
00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
ActiveCollab
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Ratings
Oracle Aconex
8.9
3 Ratings
14% above category average
Dashboards
00 Ratings
9.03 Ratings
Standard reports
00 Ratings
8.73 Ratings
Custom reports
00 Ratings
9.03 Ratings
Construction Project & Field Management
Comparison of Construction Project & Field Management features of Product A and Product B
Scenarios where ActiveCollab works well 1) ActiveCollab works well for small teams specifically T&M teams.Its invoicing feature is unique & can make your life easy. 2) It is very easy to use & posses good range of filters like on the task list, we can drag/drop tasks, Filter by assignee's, tasks lists, due dates, or completed tasks. 3) It has some simple but awesome features like when you're in the middle of writing something i.e a comment on story and get interrupted, it retains what you wrote. 4) It allows you to tag team members in threads of comments to grab their attention, its really needed when teams are distributed. Thus helping team members to collaborate easily & stay on same page. 5) It integrates pretty well with other web apps like quickbooks , Slack, Trello, HubSpot, Zapier etc Scenarios where ActiveCollab did not work well 1) Tasks can not have multiple assignee's here so if two members are working on same task it did not allow you to reflect that. 2) Sorting capability is not their under invoicing 3) It did not work well for larger teams 4) Search option is not very detailed & you may end up wasting lot of time searching one particular bug or issue.
For outstanding project managing and operational assistance, Oracle Aconex is an incredible program. The budget that suits every project are met and followed. More so, Oracle Aconex takes the permits required, for instance, the insurance permit and the license tracking. The contractor management feature is also encoded on Oracle Aconex, making the investor and the contractor have the same objective.
It isn't possible to set members of staff as part time, so if someone is unavailable on certain days you must manually enter them as OOO every single day that they are not in, that other teammates work. Hours also can't be edited individually - everyone is treated as working the same hours in a day, rendering capacity planner useless for flexi working teams
Subtasks cannot be assigned their own hours and deadlines, meaning the To Do list view can't be seen in actual date order and capacity planner does not reflect all time allocated to an individual's schedule unless every task is set up as a separate task rather than subtask
There is no way to see all tasks of a certain type across multiple campaigns (e.g all copywriting tasks vs all technical tasks) - support team suggested exporting data and making spreadsheets
Kanban view isn't available for people's own task lists ('board' view here shows a list)
Not possible to have one task be assigned to more than one person
Notifications are not sent when tasks are updated, so you have to leave comments and tag people each time
We have not required support for ActiveCollab as it works pretty seamlessly. We didn't have any issues with using the platform or with any billing issues. The self-service aspect of the platform is robust and easy to navigate so we have not encountered any errors that required assistance from the support team.
ActiveCollab is easier to use and simpler in its setup. It has the right mix of features and simplicity. It's also project-oriented which is important for our workflow. Other tools are often too task-oriented, making it hard to track projects. Overall, ActiveCollab has a great mix of simplicity with good features.
I am currently using file sharing such as Egnyte and ShareFile which are useful but don't have much of a transmittal or inmail functionality so I can't really speak to other products in the same league as Aconex. I don't typically like proprietary contractor solutions due to their non-neutrality and embedded agendas, which often are not consistent with the owner's interests.