Projector's cloud-based Professional Services Automation (PSA) software helps project-based services organizations track time and expenses, invoice clients, schedule resources, and manage projects. Its three modules span a more comprehensive set of uses than typical project management software. The Accounting module helps the user track time and expenses and manage invoices and billing. Also it syncs with the company's accounting systems as a sub-ledger. The Resource Scheduling module matches…
$15
per user
HighQ
Score8 out of 10
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HighQ Collaborate, now from Thomson Reuters (acquired 2019) is a cloud-based enterprise collaboration platform, featuring secure file sharing but also means for sharing documents with users outside the enterprise, as well as a user-interface optimized for mobile devices and intuitive interface, with real-time communication.
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Pricing
Projector PSA
HighQ
Editions & Modules
Team Edition
$15
per user
Professional Edition
$25
per user
Enterprise Edition
$30
per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Projector PSA
HighQ
Free Trial
Yes
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
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Features
Projector PSA
HighQ
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Projector PSA and Thomson Reuters HighQ
Feature
Projector PSA
7.4
11 Ratings
4% below category average
Thomson Reuters HighQ
8.2
2 Ratings
6% above category average
Task Management
9.510 Ratings
8.01 Ratings
Resource Management
9.510 Ratings
00 Ratings
Gantt Charts
6.03 Ratings
00 Ratings
Scheduling
8.511 Ratings
8.01 Ratings
Workflow Automation
9.07 Ratings
9.01 Ratings
Team Collaboration
7.57 Ratings
00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology
5.82 Ratings
00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology
5.23 Ratings
00 Ratings
Document Management
8.57 Ratings
00 Ratings
Email integration
7.65 Ratings
00 Ratings
Mobile Access
3.77 Ratings
9.32 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking
9.511 Ratings
00 Ratings
Change request and Case Management
5.23 Ratings
00 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management
8.19 Ratings
00 Ratings
Search
00 Ratings
9.62 Ratings
Visual planning tools
00 Ratings
5.01 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Projector PSA and Thomson Reuters HighQ
Feature
Projector PSA
7.9
3 Ratings
3% above category average
Thomson Reuters HighQ
-
Ratings
Invoicing
7.02 Ratings
00 Ratings
Project & financial reporting
8.52 Ratings
00 Ratings
Integration with accounting software
8.03 Ratings
00 Ratings
Communication
Comparison of Communication features of Projector PSA and Thomson Reuters HighQ
Feature
Projector PSA
-
Ratings
Thomson Reuters HighQ
8.6
2 Ratings
7% above category average
Chat
00 Ratings
9.01 Ratings
Notifications
00 Ratings
9.02 Ratings
Discussions
00 Ratings
9.01 Ratings
Surveys
00 Ratings
6.01 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase
00 Ratings
10.01 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Projector PSA and Thomson Reuters HighQ
We think Projector PSA is a great tool to track and manage people in a professional service environment like management consulting. This system is easy to set up, easy to understand and should easily suit the needs of smaller and medium sized firms. It may be less appropriate for firms that rely very heavily on project management through another system (like MS Project) or firms that rely very heavily on a sales pipeline tracking system. While still very much possible to use, you would (I believe) have to do some re-keying between systems
HighQ Collaborate is well suited to situations where a law firm maintains numerous documents for a client and the client needs access to them on a regular basis. For example, we may store the client's minute book (which is relatively common for a large corporate law firm to do), but the client may need access to documents in that minute book on a regular basis. Likewise, we have an internal system at the firm for hosting digital versions of closing books, however, many clients would not have a similar system because they would only receive closing books irregularly. USBs get lost and the client might not want to put the closing book on the main server where anyone can access it. By putting the closing book on the extranet site, the individuals in the client's organization who should be able to access the closing book can do so.
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Projector is a very well designed tool for project management. It has allowed us to eliminate a number of auxiliary tools for project timelines and WBS for the vast majority of our projects.
Time and expense entry is intuitive and quick for our staff.
Our forecasting and resource management capability has improved greatly with Projector and allows us to grow our team efficiently with minimal additional administrative burden.
Reporting is extremely robust. It does require some time to really get a handle on the full functionality of the reporting tool, but once you do, you can get almost any kind of report you want out of the system!
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Release management process needs to be improved. Currently no facility is provided to test the impact of new releases in a sand-box. This introduces business risk if there are interfaces into Projector PSA as part of it's use in the business.
It is just not that exciting. We host documents on there for clients but the extranet sites have ultimately turned out to not be a product that our clients are clamoring for or that we are regularly pushing.
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We have been using this tool for a year now and find our use of it continually evolves and broadens. We are also very excited about the overhaul that's under way and feel many of the improvements being put in place will help make us that much more effective and efficient. The Projector team is also very responsive and collaborative in terms of user feedback and improvement suggestions, which helps us know they will work hard to help us get what we need out of the tool.
The interface is easy to use and overall the software seems pretty robust (I haven't had any crashes yet), so I haven't had to use the support very often. Likewise, I don't think I've ever had a client e-mail me with questions or issues - the software is pretty idiot-proof.
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We did pursue Quick Arrow another tool that was similar. We found that be in inflexible in use. Projector allows a lot of flexibility in setup. Our organization has very specific business processes and we were able to set up Projector to work with those processes. Several other systems we tried were not as flexible in allowing set up to our needs.
I feel that HighQ does not really have any real competition in this space because it simply accomplishes its goals far better than the competition at lower cost, while requiring less training and administration.
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Even in the small time that I stayed to see Projector PSA reporting I saw ROI projections become more realistic. There was real data to analyze that proved we were spending way too much and charging way too less on some projects.
Although employees were not used at entering their hours, this single reporting improved operations management and validated employees concerns that more people were needed to manage workload
Project proposals were more realistic because they were driven by real data.
Decision making overall for the department became more efficient and effective
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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info