ActiveCollab vs Deltek TrafficLIVE

• Its billing & invoice feature worked pretty well for T&M teams. ActiveCollab version 5, the current version, allows you to directly track time to tasks using the Timer app and later create invoices based on those time entries. Their statuses will change through phases, as you are pending payment, or after they are set as paid.
• Here cost can be easily assigned to each team member, Team members can start the timer after they start their work, then allows you to export the time records of team members making it easy to complete the billing.
• File sharing feature is very useful for distributed teams as we can we can easily share files, screenshots.
• Also ActiveCollab ability to connect to Google docs, attach images and link to web pages make it unique from other project management tools.
• AC easily allows you to track your daily tasks & serves reminder if miss on the targets defined by giving daily / weekly reminders regarding tasks and any that have gone over due dates.
• ActiveCollab is quite easy to use. With just a few clicks, you can create a new project.
• The dashboard and options are easy to see and it is well laid out.
• Here user have an opportunity to select the number of emails they receive from ActiveCollab and for some email providers, such as Gmail grouping is enabled. So rather than getting multiple mails, it send you a summary of all the daily notifications in one mail.
• It allows users to upload several files at once on task comments, and if you are set with the owner role, or have the member role but are a project leader, you have a Batch Edit option available on project level. This allows you to edit multiple tasks at once and change all the details on them, such as assignee, due dates, labels, importance, and more.

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• Being able to schedule in real-time in many different ways is a massive benefit as projects change. Giving users the ability to move their individual workloads around helps them organise their day in a more realistic fashion.
• Having the ability to allocate resource in a variety of ways and reflect this in capacity reports makes it easier to constantly evaluate and instantly change employees availability to suit the needs of the business.
• Flexibility of how you want to start a Project by translating a quote from a job and vice versa with adding tasks on the fly makes it easy to adapt to changing deadlines.
• It negates the need to use paper PO books as all POs are kept within the wrapper of a project, along with expenses so they can be tracked and reclaimed on the fly saving time and your cash flow.

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• They don' do Gantt charts well
• Integrations aren't awesome yet
• They don't have task dependencies

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• Within the administration set up it needs clearer definition as to the type of user account - maybe a warning or prompt to tell you the additional charge if you switch more features on when setting users up or reusing accounts when employees leave.
• I'd like to see other options and price points available when selecting what each user should have available to them.

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• It has saved us a TON of money (literally thousands) in project management software.
• It has helped us gain clients because we can show them the template of what they will see and give them access to it. When others don't have software that does this.
• Positive impact on ROI based on the time it's saving compared to our previous PM software.

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• Visibility of staff utilisation.
• Faster invoicing for account managers and invoicing to clients.
• Improved collaboration across departments and teams with little effect on the people who need to be creative.
• Having the ability to run any kind of operational report - ultimately it's the estimated versus actuals which is what the finance guys love.

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