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What is Asana?
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…
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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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- $10 per user per monthOptional
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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 Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 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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November 06, 2021
Project Management made EasyPeazy
Asana was first introduced to me by a director of another functional area who had used it at a previous job and loved it. Since I was managing the requests for new application acquisition at that point, I got to try it out and see how it worked in action. Our Commercial Partners division currently uses Asana as their primary Project Management application. It is used to ensure that all project management tasks are aligned and everyone knows what they are assigned to accomplish for the said project.
- Super easy to assign task list items to members of my team.
- Task finished checkmark is a way visual representation of what is done and off your plate.
- Multiple ways to sort the tasks, by date or by priority.
- Integration: Our company uses Sharepoint, and I wish there was an easy integration for that.
- Customize notification. I wish there was a more detailed way to customize notification for certain projects or tasks.
- Calendar Syncing is really hard to do, especially with team members using a different system.
September 24, 2021
Asana is one of the great project management tools
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Asana helps us get tasks and projects organized. The messenger hub is helping us communicate better when discussing and sharing files among the team. Asana has improved our project collaboration and helped with tracking the project progress percentage.
- The main drag & drop feature allows us to upload documents, photos, and web links directly into the task.
- Asana provides the ability to collaborate with colleagues on tasks, which helps us keep track of progress and improve productivity.
- We can easily generate reports and share them across the platform.
- It is quite difficult to manage complex projects.
- Integration of other tools with Asana is not that great. Payment is required for those additional integrations.
- There should be user control to delete the people from teams and projects in a much easier way.
August 24, 2021
Great Task Management and Task Collaboration Software
Asana is used by our corporate team to coordinate departmental efforts; however, it is not used by our operational project management teams. The goal of using Asana was to expedite updates and collaboration efforts between various groups (Acc, HR, Ops, IT, Marketing, etc.) when working together and executing on corporate initiatives.
- Sub-tasking under a primary task (having individual assignments/commentary etc. on subtasks).
- Summation of individual tasks across multiple projects.
- Setting recurring tasks/templates.
- Ability to milestone/use dependencies.
- Some integrations with Microsoft Outlook struggle.
- Offline access on mobile and desktop.
- Assigning difficulty and required effort for resource planning.
July 06, 2021
Collaboration and Task management for remote teams
| We use Asana to manage a few aspects within our small business. The tool works great for having virtual meetings where a task can be used to capture the meeting minutes and sub-tasks can be used to allocate the action plan items to the specific meeting delegates. We also use Asana for high-level strategy and goal setting as well as day-to-day task allocation and tracking. |
- Task allocation and Tracking
- Virtual Meeting management covering the agenda, feedback and next action steps
- Task collaboration with a wide range of features to keep all kinds of task info in one space
- User experience with task views in list or kanban format
- Some users might find the user interface a bit dull and un inspired
- We found the way to use multiple workspaces a bit confusing
- It takes quite a bit of planning to build a well organized workspace in order not to have way too many projects and tasks all over the place
May 03, 2021
Asana for Small Business
Asana was used as a project management tool within the marketing and sales departments. Often it addressed the many issues that came with product management to involve the multiple stages of product lifecycle to keep everyone involved, informed.
- visibility
- schedules and planning
- Layout
- project management
- simplicity
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
December 12, 2018
Asana, your solution to workflow in distributed teams
We use Asana across our design and development teams in a modified dual agile format. It's an incredibly useful and effective tool for communication and information sharing. Implementing Asana helped resolve many communication issues we had between teams around needs, user stories, requirements, the intended implementation, and how the details fit together, both large and small.
- Cross-team communication is always a challenge, but Asana helps make information transparent and accessible to all members of the team.
- It's easy to share with individuals outside of the organization and still control the flow of information.
- Being able to link in other design resources like InVision prototypes is a huge time saver.
- Integrating with Slack makes much of our necessary communication automatic.
- Asana does a lot, so it can sometimes be hard to find the right place to be to find the tools you need.
- Organization is only as good as you make it and just because a system makes sense to the person that creates it does not mean it will make sense to anyone else.
- It can be challenging to find the information you need via search.
We originally used Asana across the whole organization and segregated projects by department. The problems it helped address was communication and archiving of our issues. So, for example, if we needed to reference an issue that came up 2 years ago, we could easily search Asana, find it, and see the full history of that issue, including any attachments. This was one of my favorite features of the service.
- The interface is intuitive, which makes it a breeze to use.
- It gives a high level of visibility into each project with its calendars, user tagging and email notifications. I always know when something is updated and can see the changes right away.
- The ability to tag everything made it easy for us to organize our projects to match our internal work flows.
- We feel like it was missing some aspects of project management; specifically an Agile workflow for software development teams.
- The dashboard doesn't seem to convey much useful information.
February 16, 2016
Asana is the most efficient task management tool
Asana is being used in our information and technology department to keep track of many different projects that are currently in development. It is easy to create a team and assign tasks in a few clicks. Being able to see all the current and upcoming tasks in the dashboard helps in maintaining the focus of the project.
- One click task assignment has definitely increased the efficiency of project management.
- Automatically save saves a lot of time.
- The interface is modern and intuitive.
- I wish there was an option to create sprints.
- An automatic time logger would be great.
- An automatic graphical report would be awesome.
August 17, 2015
Great solution for small teams
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Asana to manage the tasks for a small group of UX Designers. The ability to create task templates has enabled us to easily manage repetitive projects where the individual tasks do not change. While organizationally we also use JIRA, the design team is extremely comfortable with the Asana interface.
- Team calendar allows me to see what projects the group is working on before assigning a task or project.
- The Google plug-in and mobile apps allow me to track conversations and comps from the design team.
- The ability to assign a time as well as a due date ensures work is ready to review in time for status meetings with superiors.
- Team calendar only shows due date, not the LOE on any given day, making assigning new tasks less smooth than I would like.
- Would be great if comments could be separated, e.g. client view or development team.
- Ability to send notifications only to chosen team members is not a feature currently offered.
March 18, 2015
A winning tool that helps you win
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Asana is used as the main backlog system of record, task management and collaboration repository. Questions about features, feature capture and question resolution all reside within Asana. Automated task notification, deadline management and reporting all occur within Asana for us. It's used across the organization as we have no office and are small.
- Manage tasks on a project level. Manage stories on a feature level.
- Sprint management is very easy. I can organize a sprint quickly from the backlog and have a good understanding of what's being done and by whom.
- A timeline feature would be huge for enterprise reporting. If you think about viewing a project, it's not just its sprint planning and task management that people want visibility to. It's, what happened and when over the life of the project. Having a timeline with a milestone-level view would help Asana gain traction in the enterprise.
- A forecasting tool of delivery is a killer feature (remember killer apps?) for managers. Based on the delivery schedule for the past 50% of the project, we have X% confidence we're on track for final delivery. Now, some of this goes against agile principles but at the same time, so to people, projects and organizations.
March 05, 2015
Asana : your project management butler
Asana is used by our organization to keep track of tasks and to manage product features to be implemented in the software. It is also used to assign tasks to other people and maintain a monthly task calendar. It is used across the whole organization. It solves the business program of managing people and the product at the same time i.e. project management.
- Asana does organizing and keeping track of tasks really well. It has smart views which allow you to see and customize a smart view for tasks such as recently completed, sort by deadline, sort by assignee etc.
- Asana does a good job of allowing people to collaborate. The fact that I can comment and ask question on other people's task is very helpful to me. This removes the need of multiple emails in a way that everyone in the organization or part of the team can see it. Being able to add attachment is also really helpful.
- Asana does an incredible job of setting privacy and securing my tasks such that tasks in one team of the organization cannot be viewed by others. I can decide to make it publis or private. This is very useful as it allows me to keep tasks secure and effective at the same time.
- I hate that Asana does not have time keeping functionality inbuilt. I use Asana with lot of contractors and I would love if there was a time keeping function.
- Asana sends me a lot of notifications. Sometimes it is super helpful but often I opt out of notifications. I would love to see if Asana can optimize or change the notification frequency in a unique way.
- Asana does not allow me to chat if the other user or team members are online. I would love to have that feature instead of just commenting.
January 27, 2014
Great tool for smallish companies
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Asana was used as a project management tool for engineering, marketing, creative and customer support. It was essentially used across the whole organization as a tool to manage tasks and projects that required multiple contributors from several departments.
- Easy task assignment.
- Helpful progress tracking notes.
- Good user interface.
- Tagging of projects and ease of search by tags could use a little work. Having to have the exact tag in order to yield results is not as helpful.
January 22, 2014
Lean Project Management tool/defect tracker
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We used Asana for a website redesign project. It was used by our entire organization, and it helped track the progress of issues we encountered during testing. We were able to post DEV, QA, and Creative tasks and keep track of each by promoting them through different stages i.e. In progress, done, tested, etc.
- Large number of tasks slow down the tool.
- Easier way of tracking progress of individual items (if there were flags to mark items, in progress, done, etc)
- Sometimes you had to scroll through tiny windows to see the content.
- Large number of items slows down the UI.
- It would be great if individual "ticket" could be promoted through multiple stages (i.e. in dev, dev complete, in testing, testing complete) Our team created header tickets and would have to manually move tickets around instead of just flagging them.
- The way things are displayed sometimes cause it hard to read content, i.e. you have to scroll through tiny windows to read what is inside.
January 15, 2014
A Users Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I am currently using Asana to track developer and engineering tasks. It's been helpful in keeping these two team focus on day to day tasks.
- I like the ability to create multiple projects and manage who has access to those projects. This allows me to setup client projects so I can assign my team members tasks and my customers tasks and my customer won't see the tasks assigned to my team.
- I really like the comments feature. You are able to track all the updates for a particular task in one spot.
- My biggest issue with Asana is there is no easy way to see the status of tasks. Right now I am using the tag feature to mark if a task is in progress, has a roadblock issue, is on hold, etc. It would be nice to see a drop down or other trigger where you can report on tasks status.