ClickUp is a productivity platform that brings together work apps, data, and workflows. Also presented as a Converged AI Workspace, ClickUp eliminates work sprawl to provide context and a single place for humans and agents to work together. The platform currently boasts over 20 million users worldwide.
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Microsoft Excel
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application available as part of Microsoft 365 (Office 365), or standalone, in cloud-based and on-premise editions.
Notes - easy to use... everything you need to do is type into the chat box. everything is auto saved.Checklists - usually had to use third party software to run that, like Google Forms or Forms from office 365Excel - the usage of this tool has been drastically reduced, kept for …
ClickUp far outclasses MS Project in its collaborative features, its ease of use and engaging user interface. Its uncomplicated approach makes it accessible to anyone.
In my opinion, ClickUp is so much more powerful. We really needed the calendar feature to combine with the tasks. Planner had no way to do recurring tasks so we had to re-input annual events. Because ClickUp has the board view (among others) people can get the same type of look …
I think ClickUp has the best pricing structure of the competitors I have used in the past. I did not think most of the competitors had as many features or customization possibilities, or automation capabilities. Project Management definitely should not have to live in …
ClickUp brings together the benefits of a task management tool and a heavy software engineering tool. Creating a single tool companies need for their teams.
Microsoft Project has too many options and requires a college course to learn how to keep it moving. It is not live, no app access and has no comment threads. I did not personally use Asana, our marketing director did for his work and we were able to convert him to join …
ClickUp is straight-forward and works very well for task distribution and project management. Notion turned out to be very pleasant on the creative side but not very helpful for productivity within our team. It might be a matter of taste, but we prefer to have the scheme to …
Prior to switching to CickUp, our department was using Asana to its full extent. We used Asana for about one year and enjoyed it. When the organization saw how well using Asana was going for our team, they were interested in an organization-wide implementation. During the …
ClickUp stacks up against others because it's a software much more complect than the other competitors, with more functions e usability. We selected ClickUp for a recommendation of one of the team players, and it really was an improvement for all of the company.
ClickUp has a very large feature set and doesn't force you into any particular paradigm. Its user management and overall architecture of Space - Folder - List - Task works really well for many, many use cases. It's flexible enough to get something started very quickly, and has …
I used to-do lists for a while before moving to ClickUp. I liked the simple and plain interface of Todoist, but it also lacked many customisation options that are available on ClickUp. ClickUp has met all my expectations and more. I’m really satisfied with it and after a while, …
I think it stacks up very well, ClickUp ha a better user interface however Microsoft Excel has a more sophisticated back end and formula approach. In my opinion, ClickUp however does provide less of a need to 'learn' formulas as there is more of a click application approach …
Features
ClickUp
Microsoft Excel
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
ClickUp
8.3
716 Ratings
7% above category average
Microsoft Excel
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Ratings
Task Management
9.3716 Ratings
00 Ratings
Resource Management
8.4566 Ratings
00 Ratings
Gantt Charts
8.0520 Ratings
00 Ratings
Scheduling
8.5594 Ratings
00 Ratings
Workflow Automation
8.2567 Ratings
00 Ratings
Team Collaboration
9.2684 Ratings
00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology
8.6480 Ratings
00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology
8.5401 Ratings
00 Ratings
Document Management
8.0616 Ratings
00 Ratings
Email integration
7.6500 Ratings
00 Ratings
Mobile Access
7.3574 Ratings
00 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking
8.1479 Ratings
00 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
ClickUp has helped changed the way we do business on a daily basis. No longer do we have to rely on spreadsheets to help us keep track of the many projects and task. We can plan projects and assign tasks to specific persons and track an individuals progress. We can plan and prioritize projects and task to suit our needs. ClickUp has changed the way we work as a organization. It has brought us together in so many cohesive ways. It has made our work easier and more efficient.
I don't really know another program as powerful as Excel. I've used Google Doc programs but do not feel they come close. So far, anytime I've needed a table of some sort for data, whether it's budget oriented or information off a survey, the best system has been Excel. We do web audits on occasion and we create an Excel worksheet featuring every URL of the pages we're auditing, notes, data about the content, information about files attached to the page and other information to help us determine what pages need updating, deleting or otherwise. We also use Excel primarily to export our Google Analytics to in order for us to create reports for clients that need to see specific information about their traffic.
Customization is huge for us! We do not have the aspects of standard project management, so having the ability to customize basically everything in ClickUp is amazing.
An outstanding free version of the software! We are a small nonprofit organization that cannot afford the robust levels of other software, so having access to SO MUCH for free is incredible.
The layout and organization of tasks, Spaces, folders, etc. is perfect. I love how I can see which task all of my subtasks belong to on my dashboard. And the option to change colors and icons for everything also really appeals to my obsessive brain.
It is very good at embedded formulas and tying cells to one another
It allows me to compare deals terms on a side-by-side basis and talk my clients through it easily.
It is very helpful as well in terms of allowing me to filter/sort results in many different ways depending on what specific information I am most interested in prioritizing.
Excel offers collaboration features that allow multiple users to work on the same spreadsheet, but managing changes made by different users can be challenging. Excel could improve its features by offering more granular control, better tracking of changes, and more robust conflict resolution tools.
Itcan be a barrier to productivity when importing and exporting data from other applications or file formats. To improve its features, it should offer better support for standard file formats and more robust error handling and reporting tools.
Excel can be challenging for finance students and working professionals, but it can be improved by offering more robust tutorials, better documentation, and more user communities and support forums.
It has been a game-changer in terms of project tracking, as animation is a demanding product that requires multiple layers of analysis, revisions, tracking, scheduling, etc. ClickUp simplifies many approvals as anyone can easily add items, and you can tag the people who need to look at them.
Excel remains the industry standard for spreadsheets and has maintained simple and straight-forward formula writing methods. Although there is a learning curve to do more complex calculations, there are countless help sites and videos on the Internet for almost any need.
Far easier to use than any other PM tool. ClickUp is incredibly intuitive and had us saving time and energy within the first week of implementation. In my opinion, PM software should make it easier to focus on the deliverables - it shouldn't take all your time and energy to learn how to use the tool in the first place. ClickUp is a user-friendly tool that actually helps us focus on what's important.
I'm giving it a 7 because it is my go to. But the fact other prefer Google Sheets when working with a team does get irritating. I've used the online version of Microsoft Excel that other teams can get into and it still seems behind Google Sheets. It's a little clanky and slow? If that's even a term.
For over a year ClickUp was unavailable to us just twice for a couple of hours. I would say for a system this big and working globally that was a minor issue. They managed to fix all the issues within a couple hours and then it was back up and running perfectly fine.
The speed of ClickUp is average to be honest. This is one of the biggest flaws of the system, sometimes it's also lagging a little bit but we also have a lot of documents, lists etc. on our workspace. However, with the next version of ClickUp I've seen they are planning to increase the speed by almost 500%, probably by changing the technology, so I am more than looking forward to it.
I started using ClickUp when it was what most would consider a baby company. There were the occasional bugs that made working in ClickUp a little bit of a headache, but the support feature allowed me to chat with a real persona and communicate my issues. I would always get prompt support and someone willing to really help me, not just point me to FAQ pages. Not feeling like a number really makes a difference.
There are multiple guides on literally all of the functions you can find within the system, therefore it's easy to learn anything you'd really like to use, starting from project and people management, down to Gantts, mind maps, time tracking, inviting Clients as guests to work with you on the projects and so much more.
Start small. Don’t try to build the most elaborate plans first. Resist the urge to get into Gantt charts if no one is used to them. Just get work written, add dates and assignees, and start getting used to it. If you did not use a work management tool before, you need to be gracious with yourself about the fact that you likely do not have the muscle memory for working this way yet. But you will get there.
And leverage people who know it if possible. Look for ClickUp experts and vendors. They can really supercharge your effectiveness at building the tool out and speed up the process.
I used Salesforce at my last job and would recommend ClickUp if utilizing the product for more than just sales. My last company tried using Salesforce for a number of other actions, such as department project tracking, client documentation, and outbound communication which did not work well. ClickUp is far better at managing multiple levels of organization within a company.
Out of Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power BI, IBM SPSS, and Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel is by far the most common tool used for anything data-related across organizations. Accordingly, our organization has also implemented Microsoft Excel as a first-step tool. We recently adopted Microsoft Power BI (the free version), and use it occasionally (mostly for creating dashboards), but it is less commonly understood by stakeholders across our organization and by our clients. Accordingly, Microsoft Excel is more user-friendly and because of its popularity, we can easily look up how to do things in the program online. Google Sheets is a comparable alternative to Microsoft Excel, but because it's cloud-based and we have sensitive data that needs to be protected, we chose against using this software. Finally, a few users (including myself) have access to and utilize IBM's SPSS. For my role, it's a helpful tool to do more rigorous analyses. However, because of its cost and limited functionality as a simple spreadsheet, we only use it for more complex analyses.
Scaling with ClickUp is superb. If you create a workflow best suited for your organization then it's all about creating new accounts and teaching the new employees the workflow you're using. It's that simple. There is no black magic when it comes to Clickup.
Each user can use it to whatever level of expertise they have. It remains the same so users can contribute to another's work regardless of whether they have more or less expertise
