Asana vs Zenkit

Asana

Asana functions particularly well in scenarios with well-established teams with well-established processes and a mature SDLC. The reason is that Asana can be configured to do many, many different things, and be used in many, many different ways, and with that power comes a lot of responsibility to figure out your process before you try and automate it. It's software, not magic.

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Kirk Brote

Senior Director of Product Experience

WuXi NextCODEBiotechnology, 501-1000 employees

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Zenkit

Well suited to most small business productivity requirements. Can be used as a basic CRM, used to manage projects. There are even use case templates for ERP, Inventory & Order Management, Document Management & HR. So in the absence of software covering these business functions in a business, they could use Zenkit to manage these simple processes at a bargain price (Free or $9per user per month depending on subscription).Less appropriate if you have more complex business process requirements.

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Vince McConville

Advisor / Director

Consiliosa LtdInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Asana

7.8

Zenkit

7.8

Task Management

9.0

9.5

Resource Management

8.2

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Gantt Charts

6.5

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Scheduling

8.5

7.6

Workflow Automation

7.8

7.1

Team Collaboration

8.9

8.0

Support for Agile Methodology

8.5

7.6

Support for Waterfall Methodology

8.5

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Document Management

6.8

7.6

Email integration

7.2

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Mobile Access

8.2

8.0

Timesheet Tracking

6.1

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Change request and Case Management

8.4

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Budget and Expense Management

7.3

7.1

Asana

6.2

Zenkit

7.6

Project & financial reporting

5.5

7.6

Integration with accounting software

7.0

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Pros

Simplicity of user interface without neglecting functionality
Timeline and calendar views are extremely useful
Templates for repeatable projects

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Barbara Carneiro

Disciple & Head Honcho

Word RevolutionMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Multiple Views - Kanban.Cards, Lists, Tables & even Mindmaps
Addition of custom fields which included numbers
In table view this can be filtered & numbered fields can have totals at the top.
Zenkit has handy pre-buitl templates for different kinds of use such a CRM
Has the ability to change field content across cards via bulk action. Neat!
Can have formulas in Cutom fields
Calander syncs to Google calendar
Can bulk import Trello lists & cards easily

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Vince McConville

Advisor / Director

Consiliosa LtdInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Cons

It's not that easy to change or update the name of the title. You need to click the arrow down button beside the title to edit. I believe it should be easier like just click on the current title and change it.
I would like Asana to put a feature like Facebook and LinkedIn where you know who's online and who's not online. Because if the person-in-charge is online you can communicate with him real time rather than waiting for him to respond later on.
I would be glad too if they add a voice call or video call feature so that if you have concerns and the person you would like to talk to is online you can speak with him right away. Some comments or revisions just needs to be explained through a call to eliminate misunderstandings.

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Brent Lionel Mausisa

Co-Founder

2for1 Virtual ExpertsInternet, 1-10 employees

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App sometimes a wee bit slow to sync but this has improved
Would like ability to reorder the position of a custom field in the card
Currently can't link emails to cards as in other CRM systems (ie use a bcc dropbox email address)

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Vince McConville

Advisor / Director

Consiliosa LtdInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Asana10.0

Based on 32 answers

I had a positive experience with it. It was easy to learn and my team really enjoyed collaborating it and assigning projects through this tool. If I could get all staff involved and provide incentives for all of us to use the tool, we would be probably 2x more efficient with our productivity. Everyone has their own tools to manage projects but we should stick to just one tool like Asana.

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Verified User

Employee in Marketing

Consumer Electronics Company, 11-50 employees

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Usability

Asana6.0

Based on 5 answers

This is the best task management App for teams I have used

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Ronen Soreq

Project Manager

ClickSoftwareComputer Software, 501-1000 employees

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Reliability and Availability

Asana8.4

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Working with Asana on a daily basis

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Ronen Soreq

Project Manager

ClickSoftwareComputer Software, 501-1000 employees

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Support

Asana8.3

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They don't fix everything, but they have certainly gone the extra mile for us. When we were frustrated with a recent change that altered our default view of every project, changing it from all projects being visible to just incomplete projects being visible, they wrote a custom script to change all of our default views back for us, so we didn't have to manually click 3,000 times (we have over a thousand projects).

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C-Level Executive in Product Management

Internet Company, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Trello is really just more on boards and the con with that is if you list lots of task under one headboard some tasks are buried from the view since the boards are a bit big. I like the list feature of Asana, especially for project management. Trello on the other is a great platform for creative projects like graphics, book covers, and others since if you attached the file to board you can easily view the image. Asana though on my part allows me more freedom and more creativity since it has more features like calendar and priority level. Basecamp is more of casual way of arranging task. I don't like it that much.

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Brent Lionel Mausisa

Co-Founder

2for1 Virtual ExpertsInternet, 1-10 employees

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In a previous review for Trello I said it was great, which it is. Zenkit, however, is Trello on steroids and previously only thing holding me back from moving totally to Zenkit was the fact they didn't have mobile apps. They now have a both Android & Iphone apps. So I will be completing the transition across to Zenkit. Will still use Trello on occasion.

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Vince McConville

Advisor / Director

Consiliosa LtdInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Scalability

Asana8.2

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I used this tool on a daily basis at work and it runs as a solid rock

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Ronen Soreq

Project Manager

ClickSoftwareComputer Software, 501-1000 employees

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Return on Investment

Asana allowed us to finish our projects on time which allowed us to please the client and get more projects from them.
Asana helped my team to be more efficient in fulfilling their tasks since they know to finish the most important task first down to the least important task.
Overall, it helps us to be more efficient and effective in doing our work and it helped us to get the loyalty of our existing clients. Our revenue increased and employee satisfaction increased too.

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Brent Lionel Mausisa

Co-Founder

2for1 Virtual ExpertsInternet, 1-10 employees

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For the price, it is definitely worth a punt.
Helped me manage tasks, processes and strategic goals thus saving time & being more efficient.
SImple to learn & plenty of tutorials so onboarding was straightforward.

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Vince McConville

Advisor / Director

Consiliosa LtdInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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