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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Asana

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AAsana is a web and mobile project management app. With tasks, projects, conversations, and dashboards, Asana lets an entire team know who's doing what by when, enabling workload balancing. Users can also add integrations for GANTT charts, time tracking and more.

    $13.49

    per month per user

    Nifty

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ANifty consolidates projects, work, and communications in one place. Nifty simplifies and automates the tracking of project milestones, communications with teammates and clients, collaborative document creation, and more in a centralized workspace! Nifty enables organizational oversight across projects and teammates with project & team workload overviews. With communications, project management, and workflow collaboration centralized in one place, teams can consolidate their workday as well…N/A

    Upland PSA

    Score5.8 out of 10
    N/AUpland PSA helps professional services teams grow their business.

    $15

    per month

    Pricing
    AsanaNiftyUpland PSA
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $13.49
    per month per user
    Advanced
    $30.49
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    Personal
    Free
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    Pricing Offerings
    AsanaNiftyUpland PSA
    Free Trial
    YesYesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptional$89 simple flat-rate pricingNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsA discount is offered for annual billing.——
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    Community Pulse
    AsanaNiftyUpland PSA
    Considered Multiple Products
    Asana
    Chose Asana
    I like Nifty as this has time sheets, however we preferred the clean interface of Asana. Nifty was a bit overwhelming when we tried it. Their app on Android wasn't anywhere near as mature as Asana's app.

    Plutio is great and has many features, but we preferred the look of Asana.
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    Nifty
    Chose Nifty
    There's no comparison. Nifty does what all of these do all in one place (with the exception of Slack's community aspect with hashtagging - not sure if Nifty can do this, never tried)

    Nifty even has the ability to import directly from many other platforms - I've personally …
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    Upland Software
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    88%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    96%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    AsanaNiftyUpland PSA
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Asana and Nifty and Upland PSA
    Feature
    Asana
    8.5
    179 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Nifty
    9.6
    3 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Upland PSA
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    Ratings
    Task Management9.2179 Ratings8.83 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Management8.1152 Ratings9.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gantt Charts9.261 Ratings10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling8.3162 Ratings10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow Automation9.3132 Ratings9.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Team Collaboration9.4178 Ratings10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology8.57 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology8.57 Ratings10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document Management8.7150 Ratings9.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email integration8.8142 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access8.8149 Ratings10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking6.16 Ratings8.53 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management8.44 Ratings9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management7.377 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Asana and Nifty and Upland PSA
    Feature
    Asana
    6.7
    48 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Nifty
    9.3
    2 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Upland PSA
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    Project & financial reporting5.51 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software8.047 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Quotes/estimates00 Ratings8.62 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    Any.do
    Score8 out of 10
    Any.do
    Score8 out of 10
    Autotask PSA
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    KanbanFlow
    Score7.3 out of 10
    KanbanFlow
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Workday Professional Services Automation
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Microsoft To Do
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Microsoft To Do
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Planview AdaptiveWork
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AsanaNiftyUpland PSA
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (209 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    6.0
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.6
    (34 ratings)
    -
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    7.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    8.8
    (37 ratings)
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    8.4
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    5.0
    (42 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    AsanaNiftyUpland PSA
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Asana
    The usability of Asana is broad since it's available in a variety of platforms that are widely used nowadays. I think that it would be great for people who are constantly on the move and switching devices, since it has allowed me to work from my phone, too. I also think that Asana has proven itself to handle a large quantity of work
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    Nifty
    I've found myself recommending Nifty to other business owners as well as for personal use. I've personally found it to be invaluable when it comes to:
    • Daily / Weekly / Monthly / Quarterly recurring tasks
    • Creating templates for company processes such as new product creation, marketing strategy, on-boarding, quarterly goals, content management
    • Having forms zapped into a new task from multiple locations ensuring they're never overlooked
    • Having clear milestones and timelines for projects
    • Communicating on projects, tasks, and just in general
    • Assigning different components of projects to different people
    • Creating prior requirements that must be completed before completing the task
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    Upland Software
    We have discovered over the last few years using Tenrox that we could adapt our needs or processes to fit in the Tenrox box rather than adapting Tenrox to fit in ours completely. I feel like Tenrox would be better suited for a company that has fewer clients and projects over the course of a year, as well as fewer users. We have approximately 350 clients, 21,077 projects in Tenrox at this exact moment (we close projects as we can), 188 active users currently, and 415,635 tasks (some of course assigned to now closed projects).
    With this much information hosted through the Tenrox cloud server, we experience increased lag time frequently. This causes a lot of unwanted rejection towards Tenrox in our company.
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    Pros
    Asana
    • Through it, we were able to communicate and cooperate with the rest of the team to complete the work in the required manner and at the appropriate time.
    • Available for free on Android and iPhone.
    • Asana has a simple and easy user interface
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    Nifty
    • An overview of project timelines and milestones.
    • One-on-one or group conversations.
    • Tracking the status of projects and tasks.
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    Upland Software
    • We love that our timesheets are pre-populated with all our employee's assigned contracts and we get to control what is on their timesheet as far as funder and contract codes.
    • Tenrox did very well with our integration and getting a timesheet that exports well with our payroll provider.
    • Tenrox has a great email reminder system for when people need to submit or approve timesheets.
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    Cons
    Asana
    • Asana is not really a project management tool, it is good for simple projects only
    • UI has some glitches (doesn't save preferences, etc.)
    • Integration with other tools (Office 365, MS Project)
    • No reminders if the working period you entered is on holidays
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    Nifty
    • Time Expense could be improved since we cannot edit the previous/past time logs entered.
    • Lacks expense management and Purchase order management functionality
    • Newest product updates are not always stable and I had to reach Nifty's support team a couple of times in the past to fix the issues with new updates e.g. our document management and meeting integrations had to be re-authorized
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    Upland Software
    • Tax calculation per state tax rules. Tenrox's current capabilities relative to tax codes is extremely limited and we have to do several time-consuming work-arounds in order to apply the tax as needed for our business. What is particularly frustrating about this aspect is that our need is based on tax laws and codes set by states and I feel a financial system should be able to sufficiently structure for legally-defined tax codes.
    • Tenrox Project Planning add-on module. This portion of the system has never worked as seamlessly as you would assume given they were designed to work together. We've run in to many bugs and just oddities over the years. It's very finicky in my experience. We only use TPP for a small portion of our projects - those being our smaller or need to have huge task lists per client naming requirements.
    • (The bad that became the good!) In the past, we have had significant customer-service challenges with Tenrox and then Upland, however over the past several months we have noticed a marked change in this. If we had not previously experienced issues with the customer service, I would not have any issue with the level of service that we are currently receiving. Given the history, I am cautiously optimistic that our current level of customer service will continue. I think our service concerns finally reached the 'right' people and I am reasonably confident the positive changes are here to stay!
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Asana
    • Mobile + Desktop capabilities - Able to use it anywhere, anytime.
    • Task management - Easy to view projects and their progress.
    • Time management - Easy to see what elements require time / how they interrelate and manage the project on an overall basis.
    • Company management - Be able to see from a master dashboard perspective where each project is in its stages of completion.
    • Clear communication - It's visually documented who is doing what at what time so that the whole project gets done.
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    Nifty
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    Upland Software
    I am not in charge of renewing the Tenrox contract. However, if it was up to me, I would renew in a heartbeat. Tenrox is an asset to our organization and it keeps us focused. I am not aware of other products similar to Tenrox that provide the depth that they do.
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    Usability
    Asana
    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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    Nifty
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    Upland Software
    I feel like if the user interface could combine time and expense for users to be entered on one screen rather than two completely separate locations it would greatly improve usability. If the expense entry process could be improved completely, it would greatly improve the usability as well. Everything else within Tenrox, makes everything very user friendly.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Asana
    Working with Asana on a daily basis
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    Nifty
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    Upland Software
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    Support Rating
    Asana
    I haven't had to use their support so I can't rate it. The fact that I haven't needed them reflects the ease of use of the product. I would recommend that any new users schedule a complete demo of the product to ensure that they are using it to it's fullest (there's a lot of useful features).
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    Nifty
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    Upland Software
    The support team is always very helpful and strives to ensure they have met your needs and corrected your issues in a timely manner. If they need more information or cannot recreate the issue themselves, then they will follow-up to gather the necessary data themselves. They are constantly striving to meet the needs of all users and understand so many different industries and types of environments out there, it is very impressive.
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    Implementation Rating
    Asana
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    Nifty
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    Upland Software
    The main thing with implementation is to make sure you have taken full advantage of the "sandbox testing" site that Tenrox provides to you during development. Try out every scenario you can think of, have other people enter information if needed, so that you can make sure you have not missed any big items. If you have the opportunity, roll out implementation to small groups of users. Depending on how your company is set up, I would choose groups that are not all in the same department so that you can address questions across all areas before adding in more users in the next wave of implementation.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Asana
    Asana is a top-tier project management software that helps us organize and track projects from start to finish. It allows us to apply tasks/to-dos to multiple projects without duplication, divide complex projects into smaller tasks, and track project progress. It also helps us organize work on Kanban boards or linear lists. It stands out from the crowd in a big way compared to the competition.
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    Nifty
    There's no comparison. Nifty does what all of these do all in one place (with the exception of Slack's community aspect with hashtagging - not sure if Nifty can do this, never tried) Nifty even has the ability to import directly from many other platforms - I've personally imported projects from Trello and Asana, saving tons of time in migration.
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    Upland Software
    The Tenrox software looks and feels older and is not as user friendly! Harvest, for example, is an upgraded version that is easier to track and compile. This is what I'm comparing it to and it's not even close! We only selected Tenrox because it was cheaper and we had a connection in the company with someone at Tenrox to use that platform. We are currently looking for a change.
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    Scalability
    Asana
    I used this tool on a daily basis at work and it runs as a solid rock
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    Nifty
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    Upland Software
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    Return on Investment
    Asana
    • Productivity - Most of all, it allows me to be more productive and have a good sense of where I am with projects and deadlines.
    • Easy to use - I can make the most of my time to get up (and stay) up and running.
    • Project coordination - Allows me to assign tasks to my interns and communicate directly within the platform to keep the work train moving.
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    Nifty
    • Consistent communications.
    • Staying on project schedule.
    • Aligned projects with business strategies.
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    Upland Software
    • Tracking, tracking, tracking. It keeps the data we need and gives us the ability to look at it in countless different ways with just a few clicks, which is a big time saver. Without Tenrox, we would definitely have to increase our headcount in order to accomplish billing and payroll.
    • We recently were able to automate a huge portion of business that was still (yes, still in 2014!) being managed out of an Excel spreadsheet. We experienced a great deal of resistance to the change with our own employees, however now that we have it going we have cleaned up our invoicing and impressed the highest-financial officer for two consecutive months - our first/only two months billing directly from Tenrox for that group.
    • A newer development for our team - Some client managers in the other divisions our company have begun to look at what we are able to do with Tenrox and our other primary system and get some of their work moved over to our group. This is great and is giving us new opportunities - we will likely need to increase the headcount of our admin. team, but for a good reason (too much work coming our way!).
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    Screenshot of Product HomepageScreenshot of Team ConversationsScreenshot of Project CalendarsScreenshot of InboxScreenshot of List ProjectScreenshot of Portfolios

    Nifty Screenshots

    Screenshot of Project DiscussionsScreenshot of Project MilestonesScreenshot of Project Overview