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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Hubstaff

    Score9.4 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Hubstaff is a workforce analytics software tailored to boost productivity in remote, hybrid, and in-house teams while fostering a positive employee experience. Integrating with over 30 apps, Hubstaff's key features include time tracking, screenshots, activity tracking, URL and app monitoring, workforce analytics, automatic payroll and invoicing, scheduling, GPS and location monitoring, and timesheets. Hubstaff is compatible with Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome, iOS, and…

    $14

    per month 2 seats (minimum)

    OpenX

    Score1 out of 10
    N/AOpenX is an ad serving platform. It is sold option as a hosted solution for can be purchased as an installed application. It allows for easy inventory management , geo-targeting of ads by country, and provides statistics for each ad placement.N/A
    Pricing
    HubstaffOpenX
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $7
    per month per user (2 seat minimum)
    Grow
    $9
    per month per user (2 seat minimum)
    Team
    $12
    per month per user (2 seat minimum)
    Enterprise
    $300
    per year per seat
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HubstaffOpenX
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.—
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    Community Pulse
    HubstaffOpenX
    Considered Both Products
    Hubstaff
    No answer on this topic
    OpenX
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    20 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    19 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    18 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    HubstaffOpenX
    Ad Network Integration
    Comparison of Ad Network Integration features of Hubstaff and OpenX
    Feature
    Hubstaff
    -
    Ratings
    OpenX
    6.6
    3 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Data Transfer00 Ratings6.53 Ratings
    DSP integration00 Ratings6.83 Ratings
    Ad Campaigns
    Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Hubstaff and OpenX
    Feature
    Hubstaff
    -
    Ratings
    OpenX
    7.0
    5 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Ad campaign creation00 Ratings6.85 Ratings
    Ad deployment00 Ratings6.65 Ratings
    Display advertising00 Ratings7.35 Ratings
    Ad display and retargeting segmentation00 Ratings6.55 Ratings
    Sequence targeting00 Ratings7.54 Ratings
    Ad Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of Hubstaff and OpenX
    Feature
    Hubstaff
    -
    Ratings
    OpenX
    6.6
    5 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Ad dashboards00 Ratings5.95 Ratings
    Ad performance reports00 Ratings6.05 Ratings
    Ad conversion tracking00 Ratings6.15 Ratings
    Ad attribution reporting00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Cross-channel ad management00 Ratings7.25 Ratings
    Ad forecasting and optimization00 Ratings7.64 Ratings
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    Score7.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HubstaffOpenX
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.6
    (24 ratings)
    7.3
    (15 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HubstaffOpenX
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Hubstaff
    It enables you to monitor workers' time on every project. It monitors productivity even if an internet connection is not available. It provides a customizable interface. Every task is customizable to suit project requirements. It allows you to track time from anywhere in the world. In this way, it provides powerful insights to determine how many hours are required to do a project.
    Incentivized
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    OpenX
    What are the best ways to integrate it with salesforce.com? What are the best ways to target our users with this tool? To segment the users? How can I integrate my ads with your adexchange-what sizes are you looking for in terms of banners, skyscrapers and so on. In this way I can plan my in house ad and those for the exchange to be the same size, to avoid duplication of work.
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    Pros
    Hubstaff
    • Its interface is also quite easy to handle and is designed in a user friendly way.
    • Overall, I feel that Hubstaff is a very useful invention that has the ability to attract and fascinate users.
    • Hubstaff offers a customizable and easily tailored according to your requirements user interface where with the help of just one click you can start or even stop tracking your daily project activities.
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    OpenX
    • OpenX is a system that was designed to scale as is evident in some key design decisions found throughout the platform. The multi-server setup that was chosen at Mail.com allowed for a distributed server architecture which separated the front end web delivery nodes from the backend MySQL Database master which replicated data back to each front end delivery node mysql slave. This eased the ability to horizontally scale as needed due to the ingenious separation of the ad impressions data tables on the delivery nodes which were being collected locally on each ad impression and then processed periodically back to to the master database which replicated the aggregated statistics back to the delivery nodes. The ability to load balance across the front end web delivery nodes, add caching at many different layers, utilize a CDN for the static ad images, implement PHP accelerators, and hit memcached instead of the MySQL master made the OpenX platform a service that was very resilient to failures.
    • The ability to optimize the platform is also something that OpenX does very well. This is evident in many of the config key parameters available. In addition to OpenX specific tunable's, optimizations can be made at many different levels in which the system sits. These include hardware and operating system level optimizations, tcp and networking stack optimizations, web server/php-cgi configurations, and database (MySQL InnoDB) tunable's. There are many different optimization knobs that can be tuned to help scale the application for the best performance possible
    • The documentation was simple, to the point, and well written which led to an easy initial implementation and roll out of a multi-server setup. The installation and upgrade procedures were straight forward even for the complexities of the multi-server setup. I also found the OpenX team to be accessible and even got a chance to meet some of the team at their Up Close and Personal events at Cal Tech in Pasadena. Core developers were on hand to answer technical questions and also made themselves available to us via email and irq channels.
    • The open nature of the OpenX platform allows for flexibility in the choice of web serving platform to use (Apache, nginx, Lighttpd) and also the database management systems (MySQL, PostGreSQL)
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    Cons
    Hubstaff
    • I am having a problem with its customer support. [I feel it is] one of the worst customer service I have gone through for the longest time. They did not even know about their own platform, response time is late and there is no such name of help from their side what so ever which makes it a very difficult platform to use.
    • [I believe it] needs a lot of upgrades in customer support system.
    Incentivized
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    OpenX
    • Propagation could be improved; ad units that need to go live immediately could take up to 45 minutes to propagate.
    • Over-complexity can be confusing. There are multiple tiers before assigning ad units per order and it seems unnecessary.
    • Real-time reporting or a status dashboard would be great.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Hubstaff
    Because it's easy to implement and use. It does not disrupt your work.
    Incentivized
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    OpenX
    I no longer work at the company where I was using OpenX, but if I were then I'd certainly stay aboard. Frankly, there are a lot of sunk costs involved with building all of the infrastructure we had put in place, the system was working very well even if reporting was a hassle, and our team was trained on it. Also, I'm not aware of another product that does everything else we'd need it to.
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    Usability
    Hubstaff
    I give it 9 because it is really good for time tracking and managing remote teams. It helps me to manage my team very efficiently. Still, prices are high, so don't give 10. I need more discounts to add more team. Also need more accuracy as users are now fooling the tools with various cheats. Overall it is good and helfull
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    OpenX
    I was given the system to use as part of setting up a whole new site from scratch in less than 2 months, with a large number of specialty hub pages to run ads on and lots of content I needed to run disease specific ads on. The system was easy for me to learn on the fly in a very compressed time frame. I would have loved more chance to really dig in under the hood to see all that it could do, but given how fast I had to work, I got everything up and running and looking great. And I did it ahead of my launch deadline too. My only reservation might be for people who are not as patient as I am in picking things up, or as hands on. Customer service was great if I needed them, and a quick start guide with the essentials would be ideal for those people.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Hubstaff
    I've never had any issues and always received proper support. They let you know in advance when they'll be in maintenance and it's always in odd hours, so it's good. You still can use it when they are maintaining it.
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    OpenX
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Hubstaff
    I've never had any issues. It loads correctly and works like a charm.
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    OpenX
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Hubstaff
    Hubstaff has always responded to support requests in a timely manner and has kept me in the loop of changes. When contacting them about future changes/features they've always been upfront on whether that is a change they are looking to make and when that change may occur. Finally, if the person I have communicated with was unable to resolve, they always escalated to the next best person who can answer/resolve.
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    OpenX
    They went above and beyond without ever asking for additional money and we met our launch date and immediately started to meet and even surpass our business goals. Nothing was too much trouble, which really stood out compared to other companies I had and was at that time also working with. Customer service can really make or break any business; if i expect my staff to give good customer service, I expect to get it too, and Open X gave it.
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    Implementation Rating
    Hubstaff
    None, everything went smoothly.
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    OpenX
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Hubstaff
    Hubstaff keeps interesting and smart features and functions. The most interesting feature is the reporting feature that has brought much convenience
    to me. It is no doubt a great tool for planning budgets, managing workflows,
    tracking time, and best supervision capabilities.
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    OpenX
    OpenX is less focused than MoPub and it has a bigger reach as it is not limited to the mobile app. Unlike MoPub that focuses on performance, OpenX comes from the branding world and is pushing into CTV and other areas of the industry more catered to traditional media agencies and not pure ad tech players.
    Incentivized
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Hubstaff
    I didn't help purchase this product. We just implement it.
    Incentivized
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    OpenX
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    Hubstaff
    Not sure we used the professional service.
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    OpenX
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Hubstaff
    • Hubstaff has enabled us to identify the most productive workers which enables us to maximize profitability.
    • Hubstaff has enabled us to quickly identify drops in engagement or output, or just poor performance due to not caring so we can move on instead of trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.
    • HubStaff lets us actively measure retainers vs delivered hours and adjust contracts to what we really need based on our time expenditures.
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    OpenX
    • OpenX made it easy to manage online advertising. At the time I used the product I was the lead developer in charge of implementing the solution but quickly was put into the role of managing the traffic and training other users. It was really easy for a technical user to become a traffic manager. Getting other users trained and up to speed was very efficient.
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    ScreenShots

    Hubstaff Screenshots

    Screenshot of the time tracking interface, with screenshotsScreenshot of the remote work dashboardScreenshot of Hubstaff's 30 project management integrations