ActiveCollab vs Projector PSA

• Great for project and task assignments, project workflow and communications.
• Solid web-based platform that doesn't require software downloads, also includes great mobile platform.
• Great reporting tools for managing billing, estimating, project workflow and other essential project details.
• Allows for both the agency and its clients to interact on a single platform using role-specific permissions.

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• Projector is a very user friendly product and customizable to the business needs. Time and expense entry is very simple and easy to use. Their mobile app is also very user friendly.
• The reporting is very robust and has a lot of customizable reports. The best part is all of the data can be exported to Excel or other formats so you can create your own reports.
• The accounting interface is very good and we have had a great experience with it. There are many tools available to reconcile the details of transactions which makes it easier to complete period end processing.
• Projector interfaces with several major accounting systems and also with Salesforce which is very helpful to our organization.

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• As a web-based platform, sometimes things go down on their end and we lose access to our project management tool to the ire of all.
• Project searching can be hit or miss, and filtered search often leaves out projects that should have shown.
• Email alerts are often not as helpful as they seem.

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• One challenge has been the user interface of the management portal, but that is currently being overhauled. The new design is being rolled out incrementally, and so far we've been very impressed with it, both visually and functionally!
• Projector is first and foremost a project management tool. Because of this, we had to come up with some workarounds for customized accounting tasks we needed that were not part of the native Projector logic, but we were able to get what we need done.
• One thing we did have with our previous PSA tool and that isn't available in Projector is an integration with MS Outlook calendar. That would be a great feature for our team.

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• Active Collab has helped us to move to a completely digital project management system, moving away from physical time sheets and assignments many years ago. Since then, the platform has grown very quickly and very adeptly, and that is why we continue to use it.
• The Active Collab platform helps us with quick, easy access to our project management system, even for off-site users, vendors and clients.
• Time tracking and profit analysis has been great to help us price new agency services and change requests.

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• Efficiency is definitely a benefit. While we do have to put in some effort into set up and maintenance of projects, we were able to eliminate the use of external timelines and WBS documents. Now we can grab them right out of Projector to send to the client, push into MS Project or just have our team access.
• Resource allocation is more detailed and efficient and allows us to grow and be able to manage a larger group of resources with a wider range of skill-sets.
• We are able to more accurately track and analyze internal R&D efforts and projects.

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