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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    LoadSpring

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ALoadSpring is a project management solution built specifically for IT teams.N/A

    Redmine

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/ARedmine is a project management web application written using the Ruby on Rails framework. It is cross-platform and cross-database, and free to download and use as an open source project available on the GNU 2.0 license.

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    LoadSpringRedmine
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    LoadSpringRedmine
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    LoadSpringRedmine
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of LoadSpring and Redmine
    Feature
    LoadSpring
    7.4
    1 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Redmine
    8.2
    13 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Task Management8.01 Ratings10.013 Ratings
    Resource Management8.01 Ratings7.012 Ratings
    Gantt Charts7.01 Ratings9.012 Ratings
    Scheduling9.01 Ratings7.011 Ratings
    Workflow Automation8.01 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Team Collaboration8.01 Ratings10.012 Ratings
    Document Management6.01 Ratings10.011 Ratings
    Email integration6.01 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Mobile Access6.01 Ratings5.59 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking7.01 Ratings9.011 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management8.01 Ratings7.012 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management8.01 Ratings7.011 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings6.910 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of LoadSpring and Redmine
    Feature
    LoadSpring
    7.5
    1 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Redmine
    8.0
    8 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Quotes/estimates8.01 Ratings7.33 Ratings
    Invoicing7.01 Ratings7.82 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting8.01 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software7.01 Ratings7.92 Ratings
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    LoadSpringRedmine
    Small Businesses
    Any.do
    Score8 out of 10
    Any.do
    Score8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    KanbanFlow
    Score7.3 out of 10
    KanbanFlow
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Microsoft To Do
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Microsoft To Do
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    LoadSpringRedmine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.5
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    LoadSpringRedmine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
    LoadSpring is great for managing licenses so that a user who hasn't been utilizing the software can be placed inactive so the license isn't being occupied. Managing services and applications is great. You can easily change access through the management portion of the service. Uptime is also very good.
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    Open Source
    Redmine is a perfect solution for businesses that are looking for a FREE and open source solution for project management. It is great for teams that are managing numerous tasks or projects at one time. Redmine is easy to set up and is fairly self-explanatory for anyone who is semi tech-savvy.
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    Pros
    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
    • Management of sessions.
    • Account/license management.
    • Reliability.
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    Open Source
    • Issue Tracker - Redmine allows in-depth issue tracking complete with workflows and customization.
    • Release Tracker - Redmine allows releases to be tracked by milestones, collecting relevant issues in each milestone.
    • Agile Management - With a few free or low-cost add-ons, Redmine becomes a great tool for Agile project management
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    Cons
    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
    • Self-service account reactivation.
    • Integration of instructions on a per application level.
    • Built in linked help for companies using the software.
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    Open Source
    • The design and user-interface are a little outdated. It looks like a product that was designed ten years ago and doesn't have a polished look and feel like newer apps have.
    • It's not particularly designed to support agile-based project management methodologies such as Scrum.
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    Usability
    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
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    Open Source
    Redmine is a great product to have in an organization. It's extremely flexible, costs much less to maintain than other alternatives, and as a tool, it is relatively fast to get experienced with. The primary advantages of working with Redmine are: flexible platform, API, open-source and highly configurable, stability.
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    Support Rating
    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
    LoadSpring support is very quick to respond. They have self-service for support which is great for quick fixes on the end-user side of things. They will respond with a good solution and if they need further assistance from an administrator, and they email them so they can assist the end-user with their issue.
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    Open Source
    Redmine is free, easy to use and it's everything you could want in a free project management program. The fact that it has wiki integration and that it can track on such a granular level is amazing. Assigning tasks to other users, such as our development team, is fantastic and ensures we are always up-to-date on where we are what - on what projects.
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    Alternatives Considered
    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
    LoadSpring has a great up-time compared to our old hosting service. We haven't had many outages and very few issues while running our concurrent sessions. Automated license management has been great so our active licenses stay very low. I wasn't involved with the purchase and migration but I feel this was the better option.
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    Open Source
    Jira is a great project management tool for software product life cycle management for an agile environment based on agile methodologies. Jira is an intuitive and modernized user interface design compared with Redmine but Redmine is a lightweight and affordable project management and task tracking solution with its essential features and functionalities.
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    Return on Investment
    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
    • Great license manager.
    • Has great up-time for hosting our application.
    • Self service account management is non-existent.
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    Open Source
    • Customers receive updates on all progress made for their issues -- this results in an informed customer who is being given transparency on all steps of our process.
    • Customers have responded well from being able to not have to track down emails and instead come to a central place for requests.
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