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- Task Management (163)9.191%
- Team Collaboration (162)9.090%
- Document Management (138)8.686%
- Scheduling (148)8.383%
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What is Asana?
Asana helps teams orchestrate their work, from daily tasks to strategic initiatives. The vendor states that with Asana, teams are more confident, move faster, and accomplish more with less, no matter where they are located. Asana boasts more than 75,000 paying organizations and millions of free organizations across 195 countries as users, who manage everything from company objectives to digital transformation to product launches and marketing campaigns. Teams do great things when everyone has clarity and is empowered to do their part. Asana aims to give teams the confidence to plan, organize, and execute their most ambitious work from anywhere.
Asana Features
Project Management Features
- Supported: Task Management
- Supported: Resource Management
- Supported: Gantt Charts
- Supported: Scheduling
- Supported: Workflow Automation
- Supported: Team Collaboration
- Supported: Document Management
- Supported: Email integration
- Supported: Mobile Access
- Supported: Budget and Expense Management
Professional Services Automation Features
- Supported: Integration with accounting software
Additional Features
- Supported: Work Management
- Supported: OKRs
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Asana Integrations
- Dropbox
- Google Drive
- Box
- Microsoft Teams
- Jira Software
- Slack
- GitHub
- Zapier
- Microsoft Power BI
- Salesforce
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- Tableau
Asana Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Mobile Web |
| Supported Languages | English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Japanese, German |
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Asana is a web and mobile project management app. With tasks, projects, conversations, and dashboards, Asana lets an entire team know who's doing what by when, enabling workload balancing. Users can also add integrations for GANTT charts, time tracking and more.
Asana starts at $50.
Reviewers rate Task Management highest, with a score of 9.1.
The most common users of Asana are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Asana is a versatile tool that serves multiple purposes within organizations. It is widely used for project management, allowing teams to track progress and update tasks efficiently. Users appreciate its helpful functions, which enable teams to stay productive, coordinated, and successful in completing tasks and projects. Asana has proven to be particularly effective for the Marketing Team, eliminating the need for outdated task management methods and streamlining project management. It is also highly valuable for organizations with remote workers and different schedules, providing a centralized platform to log projects, tasks, and schedules. The software facilitates collaboration across teams and projects through features like email reminders and project dashboards, enhancing productivity and ensuring everyone stays on the same page. With its customizable nature, Asana adapts to the specific requirements of each team and department, enabling personalized experiences and improved workflow efficiency. Furthermore, Asana's calendar feature helps teams assign and track deadlines, ensuring everyone stays on track and meets project milestones. Overall, Asana's intuitive interface and user-friendly design have led to high adoption rates among users in various departments and industries. Whether it's managing marketing projects, coordinating client work, tracking developer tasks, or facilitating cross-functional collaboration, Asana proves to be an indispensable tool for staying organized and meeting deadlines.
Users of Asana have provided several recommendations based on their experiences with the software. The most common recommendations include:
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Asana is highly regarded for its reliable email notification system. Users appreciate the timely alerts and updates they receive, helping them stay informed about important tasks and deadlines.
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Many users recommend Asana for its efficient file storage and sharing capabilities. Teams can easily collaborate on projects by uploading and sharing files within the platform, enabling seamless communication and collaboration.
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Asana's resource allocation feature is highly praised by users. They find it easy to assign tasks to team members, ensuring that work is distributed effectively and resources are utilized efficiently.
It's worth noting that these recommendations are based on user feedback and reflect their positive experiences with Asana's features.
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September 17, 2019
Modern and simple task management
We use Asana as a task and project management tool. A few of our departments use it as the main way to assign and track the progress of their work. Also, some larger cross functional projects use this tool.
- Cross platform experience. Great across mobile apps and desktop web
- Search. Easy to find anything with advanced search and tags
- Reporting. Easily set up favorited views
- Complex license model. Freemium business model, need org buy in to do more complex tasks and make service worth it
- Mobile app limited. Certain things like section dividers cannot be created on mobile
- Central administration tools lacking on non Enterprise SKUs
September 17, 2019
Asana is a great tool for task management on all levels
Asana was used to help various departments in our company organize tasks and collaborate with other teams. It was used for sorting daily tasks and project tasks as well.
- Organization
- Collaboration
- Ease of use
- Mobile functionality at the time was difficult.
August 27, 2019
Asana helps keep teams on track
Asana is used as a project tracker for our internal PR team where we delegate tasks to one another. It's used for tracking deadlines and having an understanding of what everyone is working on.
- Show due dates so we can stay on track.
- Lets everyone view tasks.
- Able to track individual projects and larger campaigns.
- Make messaging easier, almost like email on tasks.
August 27, 2019
A very easy to use project manager
Asana is a very good option for the management of projects and the monitoring of assigned tasks, in my work I have several people in my team, so it is necessary to constantly monitor the tasks and projects in execution to ensure that they are carried out in the best way possible. It is there that Asana makes my work much easier since the application allows me to do the respective follow-up to the work without having to move from place to place.
- Asana is very easy to use.
- It integrates very well with other applications allowing data sharing.
- It is an economic solution.
- It is an application that is well oriented.
- Technical support is sometimes slow.
- Does not allow for customization of funds.
- It does not have a very reliable security system.
August 26, 2019
Asana Keeps Me On Track
We use it as a project management tool to assign different tasks and roles to a project for the department. We have multiple boards where we break a project down into pieces to simplify the process. It has helped us see where we need help on a project and keep everyone else on time.
- Assigns roles
- Sets deadlines
- Tracks progress
- A lot of email notifications
- Hard to build and start
- Can be overwhelming
Score 8 out of 10
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Actually Asana is being used across the whole organization, but my area was the one that introduced the tool to the company. We needed to find a tool that allows us to track our tasks and to organize the team's tasks, share the projects with other areas, schedule the projects, set due dates, share files and information, etc. Asana address all those issues.
- It's very intuitive to use and its interface is modern and nice. Other project management tools don't have as nice an interface as Asana has.
- It allows you to manage a LOT of projects and to customize them separately depending on the characteristics of each one.
- It works smoothly in different navigators and also the desktop version works very well.
- It allows integrations with great tools, such as Everhour.
- The free version is very plain, I understand that nothing's for free but I think that, if it had some more functionalities available in the free version more people would buy the complete one.
- I would like to use Asana in my phone without having to download the app.
- Sometimes the notifications get spammy, I know you can deactivate some and activate others but, as default, they end up being spam and most of the times I lose the only ones I care about (when a task is done and when comments are made on a task).
August 20, 2019
The new trend of user experience project management tools
It is being used by specific departments. Asana is an interactive, reliable and easy-to-use project management solution, which we use for agile driven projects, allowing us to better perform using this approach and keep track of constant changes on the scope of work as a natural and essential part of agile projects.
- Agile project management
- Storyboards design
- Backlog inventory management
- Performance management
- Lack of robust functionalities for complex CAPEX projects
- Complex reporting
- Financial features for complex projects
August 15, 2019
Asana has won me over -- eventually!
Asana is predominately used in our marketing team. Other teams, such as sales and customer success, also have access, but it tends to only be so that they have visibility on what marketing is doing. Other teams don't tend to use it as in-depth as our marketing team. For our team, it's great that we have visibility on what everyone is doing. It allows for easier collaboration as well. We've structured it so that anyone in the company can see what we as a team are doing at the given time. However, it also allows them to add tasks to our board should they need to.
- Team collaboration.
- The calendar view is awesome!
- It allows us to implement a smooth scrum process.
- It gives the entire team access to an overview of our workload at any given time.
- Not all tags are easily recognized if there are many per task.
- I don't tend to use the 'my tasks' section, which means I miss subtasks that have been assigned to me.
- Sometimes if tasks are shared across two boards, it will mark as complete on both. It's a bit frustrating if one team has completed it but the other hasn't.
August 13, 2019
Asana offers simple management with powerful features.
We use Asana across our production team to manage projects as a whole and individual tasks within those projects.
- Asana is a great, no nonsense project management solution. It gives several simple views and ways to present tasks and projects and automations within those projects.
- Asana offers Gantt charts, calendar views, board views, and list views. It gives you access to views that many other solutions hide behind high paywalls.
- The price is right for Asana (at least from what I've found). Asana was much cheaper than the major alternatives that offered the features that my team needed such as Gantt charts.
- Some of the upper level project management tools and high level views of multiple projects are hidden behind the MUCH higher priced premium plan. This was also a recent split which hid some features previously included in the standard plan behind this paywall.
- It doesn't have a great overall view for all projects that you have going on. There's a calendar for tasks and a list for projects but not a clear way to signify what stage each other project is in or give some that at a glance info to a manager or owner. Maybe that is included in the expensive premium plan.
Asana is used almost across our whole organisation, except the development team who are using JIRA instead. For marketing, sales, customer success, sales and management, Asana is a brilliant tool that helps us improve:
- Project management and delivery
- Productivity and teamwork
- Clarity and cross-team communication
- Most of our teams organise their work based on Sprints or Kanban, and Asana allows us to not only to plan our work but make it visible throughout the whole company. This not only improves communication between teams (when those requests come in) but also helps us record all of our work, track results and eventually, celebrate our wins.
- If you've logged into Asana at least once, you will know what I mean about good usability. The app is such a pleasure to use! The colours of the UI and where all features are places help you feel even more satisfied when work is done.
- Broad functionality to suit teams of different sizes and styles of project management
- Pleasant user experience
- Easy to use and learn
- Better workflows and structure for developers
- Work in offline mode (new feature but could save a few minutes when my Internet connection cuts off)
- Can be slow to load on big projects ( very rarely )
August 11, 2019
Great service, but assess your needs before getting premium
I work as an external consultant with teams at public and private organizations. I use Asan for task management, time management, and oversight of projects. It addresses the problems of workflow and workload among the teams with whom I work. I use it as a tool, but it is not necessarily a working tool of the companies I consult.
- Visualization of tasks.
- Task management and follow up (filtering tasks, deadlines, and receiving notifications of pending tasks).
- Premium services allow for critical routes.
- Premium services are limited and there are projects that I work solo. Nonetheless, the payment is done for up to 5 users.
August 10, 2019
Asana, project management at a great price....Nothing!
We use Asana to manage both personal and group projects across many different ministries in our church. We have groups, assignments, dates, and more for projects that range from long term to quick to-dos. Its best feature is how easy it is to assign and track projects to people to keep them accountable for the work they're doing.
- Time management is fantastic. I can set multiple dates within a single larger project by using subtasks. That allows me to set overall goals as well as reminders for the smaller parts of jobs.
- Assigning projects to team members, and myself, is a breeze. It's easy to identify at a glance who is responsible for what task in any given project.
- Having a personal to-do list is also helpful. It keeps track of all of the projects you're assigned in one place.
- Asana's inbox feed is great for keeping track of conversations you have on projects, reminders for due items, and anywhere you've been tagged or added to any project.
- The cost for Professional is more expensive than our non-profit/church can afford. If there were either lower-cost options, or better pricing for churches, we would love the additional features Asana offers
- The notifications aren't great. It overwhelmingly sends too many emails, so much so that I had to turn off notifications completely, and just rely on the internal Asana inbox.
- There absolutely needs to be a desktop app. The mobile app is great, but not having one on my Mac makes using it cumbersome when it shouldn't be.
August 10, 2019
Creative Directors ♥ Asana!
Originally, our Marketing Team started out using Asana, which then rolled out to the entire organization based on how effective it was in managing projects and daily tasks. Speaking specifically about Marketing, we have so many different tasks to complete each day, and before Asana, task management was handled using a combination of my Email Inbox and a notepad on my desk -- obviously, Asana completely solved that outdated task management problem.
- Collaboration: Asana is a huge time-saver for each team member to be able to see what everyone is working on, in regards to the status, due date, etc.
- Task Management: Asana makes task management easy. I have one monitor dedicated to my Asana Tasks screen, and I always know what needs to be worked on and what's coming up.
- Efficiency: The ability for team members to easily assign tasks to one another, with notes, due dates, etc. is so much easier and faster than communicating these details via Email or in a meeting. This makes things more efficient for me, so I can stay more focused on the work at hand.
- I would like the ability to block available due dates when co-workers assign me tasks. For example, if I am going to be out of the office for 7 days, 3 months from now, I would like to set those 7 days as unavailable. Then when co-workers go to assign a task to me, they do not select those dates, and understand I will not be able to complete any work during that time frame. This resolves the issue of wasting time having to go back and forth messaging one another or figuring out a more accurate due date when it could have been avoided from the start.
My organization doesn't use Asana, but I do, and it has been so helpful to get through my day that I recommend it every day. Between the app and the desktop view, everything seems to get in order by itself, and I can't address more the conversation on turning to Asana for the whole company, as it makes remote work the easiest.
- Tasklist.
- It's remote worker accessible.
- Visual aid.
- It could use a better layout, more similar to the app.
August 09, 2019
A great tool for tracking to-dos and projects
I use Asana for my personal To-do list. Previously, the entire marketing team used Asana for project management and to keep tasks on track. It is not being used by the whole organization to my knowledge. It addresses the business problem of keeping everyone accountable and on the same page.
- To-do list tracking
- Project management
- Work flows
- Scheduling
- I wish it implemented easier with Outlook or Gmail. I would like for it to be easier to send tasks from email to Asana.
- I think there's room for improvement in terms of how easy it is to make new Section Headers for tasks and lists.
- I'd like for more aspects of the interface to be customizable.
August 04, 2019
Asana -- Almost there, but too much effort required
Asana has been deployed organization-wide in order to facilitate task tracking and to monitor project progress and ensure that deadlines are met. The collaborative aspects of Asana are also important in our use case, though they aren't emphasized as much as the more simplistic task management aspects are. Easy integration with Google G-Suite is also a bonus, since the G-Suite has been deployed organization-wide as well.
- Easy to use UI.
- Functional and direct task creation.
- Visibility of key dates is prioritized on the landing page.
- Tasks, sub-tasks, and other nesting and levels are possible for more complex project phases.
- No integration with Microsoft To-Do or the Windows 10 inbox/included apps, including Action Center.
- A son-PWA website that does not support offline usage, notifications, etc. for rich presence. It needs to have a tab open at all times to be usable.
- Most of the more interesting (read: non-basic) functionality is locked behind the Premium paywall.
- Tags and groupings aren't very clear, and child tasks can be viewed flat alongside parent tasks in most views, which is confusing
August 01, 2019
Great for Project Management
Asana is used by our department to manage our current projects and to assign tasks to group members. One main great feature is the calendar that Asana offers. It is where we put and assign our deadlines to help everyone to be on track and never miss a deadline for a project.
- Making To-do-lists
- Assigning tasks
- Working on groups
- Track history of projects
- Better features for mobile application
July 31, 2019
Truly a team effort!
We started using Asana with one of our Salesforce consultants (they use it to keep track of our questions, tasks assigned to them). We were introduced to it this way, and from there, I started to use it on an individual basis. Once I understood the ability Asana has to allow for team collaboration, I started to introduce it to the rest of my team, particularly for projects where there were a lot of moving pieces.
- The variety of project templates is really helpful, and is easy to choose from
- The ability to tag a task's priority as high, medium or low (gives team members an idea of what to start with)
- Ability to assign a due date to a task (or designate for later to get it off your main priorities for the day)
- For my own tasks, I'd love the ability to color code, write notes in without looking cluttered
- Evernote operates like a notebook, while Asana (at least how I've used it) is primarily a checklist function
- It's challenging to get a team to adopt yet another tool (even an easy to use one like Asana)
July 31, 2019
Asana is a killer app for all businesses
I am the only one that uses Asana at this point. My organization is still becoming organized, so I use it to keep myself in check. It solves the problem of me not knowing what to do next for my workday, as it can become very scattershot until I look at my to-do list.
- Outrageously easy to organize my to-do list
- Assigning priority as well as due dates and times
- Easy to break tasks into subtasks and sections as well
- Allow for a customizable home. I use my Asana strictly as a to-do list based on due date. I don't need to assign things by priority - I assign them by time.
- More options cosmetically. I like Asana, but it would be nice to switch through even more different themes.
- I'd love to add a third, but Asana has become second nature to me. It's pretty darn easy to use at this point.
May 20, 2019
Asana maximizes team output and efficiency
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Asana is being used across the organization for project management and task designation. It is being highly utilized in my Marketing department as we have several high impact projects which can only be accomplished by breaking them down into smaller goals. We used to have another project management software, but we decided to do the switch after a long canvassing period.
- Asana provides great visibility over what each project member is doing. Its task assignation feature allows you to see if the person is completing his tasks within the deadlines.
- Asana removes free-riders within the company. Since the entire team can see what each one is doing, this puts pressure on everyone to work hard.
- Asana has a good Kanban feature. You can easily visualize at what stage a certain project is at as it moves through the board.
- Asana would do well to integrate with external calendars. If you have a task due or are expecting someone to complete their task, this could go into the calendar.
- This software could improve by having a desktop version available. Currently, it has a mobile app and a web app only.
- I would like my Asana to be more fun! By this, I mean better design templates of the software's overall look.
April 26, 2019
Asana Helps Us Get More Done
Asana is being used within the marketing department in order to help us manage our workflow and meet the right deadlines. Asana helps us stay organized as a team and streamlines our processes -- from content creation, to approval, to design, to execution. The checklist feature allows us to assign each stage of the process to the appropriate person with a clear deadline. The integration with Slack is also very helpful in keeping everyone on track.
- Project management.
- Task assignments.
- Deadline assignments.
- Has a steep learning curve for some users.
- There can be a lot of "noise" with notifications.
- More outreach from CSMs to help with implementation and use on teams.
February 22, 2019
Project Management Made Easy
Asana has been my solution for streamlining project management and remote communications. Since Asana is being used as a project management app, we're able to better handle deadlines and assigning responsibilities. We limit usage to internal communications only, as to not overwhelm clients. Majorly used for marketing and communications efforts.
- Asana is an amazing tool for deadline and tasks scheduling. Being able to assign team members tasks, setting due dates and being able to manage all communications in one place is a game changer.
- The biggest area for improvement would be the "task" home page views. Right now, there is no way to change the default view setting for tasks. I prefer to have everything in due-date order, but the moment you switch out of the screen, that view is lost.
January 23, 2019
Asana is an excellent project management tool
Asana is being used across the whole organization for all project management. We use it to track tasks, manage bug fixing for technical products, and stay on track to ensure no task is forgotten about, big or small. Our team has used Asana every day since our company was opened in 2015.
- Keeping track of small tasks, both personal and professional
- Creating ad-hoc reminders extremely quickly
- Keeping on top of due dates
- More structure for bug fixing, as seen with JIRA
- More features in the free version
December 21, 2018
Asana: An Adaptable Project Management Tool
Asana is mainly being used as a project and task tracking program. We've utilized the program specifically in our communications department to ensure our various projects stay on track. We juggle multiple print and digital communications projects that are dependent upon many stakeholders; Asana has assisted us in ensuring our deadlines are met. This includes project check-ins, setting up sub-tasks, deadline ranges, start and end deadlines, etc.
- Project tracking.
- Task tracking.
- Accountability.
- User-friendly interface.
- Outlook integration.
- Asana app could be more user-friendly, it should emulate the web program more closely.
- More customization for users would be nice.
- Smartsheet integration would be nice.
December 18, 2018
Great for team collaboration and task management
We utilize Asana as our task management platform within our organization. This includes sales, operations and development teams. Helps communicate what needs to be done and what has occurred in order to complete the task. It is very beneficial when the task involves many team members and their sub tasks. Very easy to prioritize tasks and create unique tags. Not necessary to be in the platform to receive updates or populate a comment which is awesome when working on the go.
- Very easy to receive comments or updates from the team.
- Helps create workflows and prioritize tasks.
- Analytics can be pulled across various projects and team members.
- Ability to search by task content would be beneficial.
- Ability to see completed and incomplete tasks at the same time would be nice as an option.
- We can see the due date but would be nice to have a timer, such as 6 days left.