Lychee Redmine vs. monday.com

I think monday.com is great for what we use it for. I can't currently see many functions beyond our current integrations -- and that can be limiting. The AI still has a lot to learn as noted in previous slides. I would need to know this friend or colleague's specific needs to really know how much monday.com would also be useful to them.

Incentivized

• Intuitive board functionality with a variety of column types and customizations to address different use-cases, such as templates for user lifecycle management, checklists for onboarding.
• Extensive automation capabilities to reduce tedium in more complex boards, such as our company's computer asset inventory board, to ensure devices are kept organized within the board for quicker reference.
• The ability to connect boards and mirror info across them allowed us to build out a cross-functional, quasi-ticketing system enabling more efficient processing of requests that involved action items from different departments and/or teams.
• We could use both the many board functions in tandem with the WorkForm feature to create an IT ticketing system that could be replicated and tailored for other teams needs.

Incentivized

• I would like to see our company logo show up larger on the form feature.
• I prefer the version of the form they have now instead of the new version for 2025. The current form shows the questions in bold font, and the new version does not. This may mean it could take our volunteers longer to get to the pertinent information on the form.
• It would be nice if monday.com staff had monthly webinars showing how to use some features. such as, using formulas effectively.

Incentivized

Teams involved in content creation, such as marketing or editorial teams, could use monday.com to manage the entire content lifecycle. Boards might track content ideas, assignments, drafts, reviews, approvals, and publication schedules, helping teams collaborate and keep content production on track.

Incentivized

I give monday.com a 10/10 because I almost never encounter any lag or connectivity issues despite all of the many templates, boards, and automations we have. As a matter of fact, I feel like the last issue I encountered was over a year ago... and I'm in monday.com every single work day. Not only is monday trustworthy, it is easy to find what I'm looking for... making the overall usability extremely hard to beat.

Incentivized

There have only been 2 instances in the past year where monday.com was down.

Incentivized

Everything performs fairly well. Every now and then there are user errors where an employee will not click "ok" on a note they've created and simply exit out (I do wish that something was in place to prevent this, such as a pop "are you finished?")

Incentivized

Regarding customer support, I have had a good experience. With many tools, you often need to wait at least 24 to 48 hours. However, with monday.com support, I always receive an instant reply on chat with a live agent. The last time I used their support, I initiated the chat with an AI and was connected with a live agent within 5 minutes. This level of convenience is unmatched elsewhere.

Incentivized

To have someone walk you thru the features and capabilities of Monday.com is priceless. Someone also coming along later in the contract to see if you are maximizing the program to suit your company needs is beyond helpful. The staff that have provided this training are fun, creative and very patient.

Incentivized

We signed up for the accounts. Created the accounts. Ran the trial version and tested it live while we were running multiple projects and found that it was fitting our needs perfectly. When the trial ended and we were asked to purchase the full version, we did. We have found other ways to use it and it's a breeze.

Incentivized

monday.com is cleaner, offers more customization and is easier to design out with a team project focus in mind. With the ability to automate steps as well, it is super easy to move tasks along, have stages auto-update and to go through my personal to-do list of tasks to get things done.

Incentivized

For it to work across multiple departments and sites, I would like to see improvements made with integrations and automation. For this question, I am acknowledging not only the addition of internal triggers/automation, but also an expansion on external ones.

Incentivized

• Much easier to review my prior month and report to clients on work completed; easy to extract the information and work done to Excel to add budget tracking etc - I see this is possible in monday.com and I will investigate how/if this is possible on our current plan.
• Very fast and easy set-up of Boards.
• Still lots to learn and grasp - many more opportunities to become more efficient using monday.com. I'm only just getting started.
• The initial automations are quick and easy to set up, and if set up correctly.
• My month-end client status and progress reports are now more accurate, and I can keep track of all the information in one place (inside monday.com).

Incentivized