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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Redmine

    Score7.3 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.

    $0

    per month

    Virola Messenger

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AVirola Messenger is a corporate messenger for secure team collaboration. Both self-hosted and cloud Virola servers are available. Main features: private and group chat rooms file transfer and unlimited storage reactions, mentions, replies and discussions continuous voice and video meetings voice meetings recording live avatars issue tracking with task board screen sharing remote…

    $22

    per month 11 users (minimum)

    Pricing
    RedmineVirola Messenger
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Annual Subscription
    $1.30
    per month per user
    Monthly Subscription
    $1.56
    per month per user
    Perpetual License
    $31.24
    one-time fee per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    RedmineVirola Messenger
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    RedmineVirola Messenger
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Redmine and Virola Messenger
    Feature
    Redmine
    8.2
    13 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Virola Messenger
    7.8
    2 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Task Management10.013 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Resource Management7.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gantt Charts9.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling7.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow Automation10.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Team Collaboration10.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology6.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology8.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document Management10.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email integration8.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access5.59 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking9.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management7.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management7.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Search00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Redmine and Virola Messenger
    Feature
    Redmine
    8.0
    8 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Virola Messenger
    -
    Ratings
    Quotes/estimates7.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Invoicing7.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software7.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Redmine and Virola Messenger
    Feature
    Redmine
    -
    Ratings
    Virola Messenger
    9.5
    2 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Chat00 Ratings9.52 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Redmine and Virola Messenger
    Feature
    Redmine
    -
    Ratings
    Virola Messenger
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Video files00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Audio files00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    RedmineVirola Messenger
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.5
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    RedmineVirola Messenger
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Provide Support Live Chat
    This is fantastic for offices that have employees working from home. It is a much cleaner and easier way to discuss projects or even have informal conversations. However if all employees are working from the same office, the features are limited as conversation, screen sharing, and task management are less valuable.
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    Pros
    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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    Provide Support Live Chat
    • Secure chatting
    • Chatrooms
    • File transfer/ sharing
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    Cons
    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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    Provide Support Live Chat
    • A cleaner interface.
    • More intuitive for older generations.
    • Customizable notification tones
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    Usability
    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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    Provide Support Live Chat
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    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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    Provide Support Live Chat
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Provide Support Live Chat
    It's really early to judge Virola's capabilities with other offerings or tools in the marketplace but with the set of features the tool offers at the moment at the negligible price it can surely be counted as a dark horse to make its way through to be one of the best. Provide that it has the ability to support larger teams, it can really be successful in the future.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Provide Support Live Chat
    • Kept everyone in the loop
    • Allowed for seamless project discussions from inside and outside the office.
    • Great way to share screens which was very important.
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    Virola Messenger Screenshots

    Screenshot of Virola Messenger desktop and mobile client appsScreenshot of Issues and discussions in Virola MessengerScreenshot of Virola Messenger mobile client appScreenshot of Task board in Virola MessengerScreenshot of Screen sharing and remote control in Virola Messenger