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Businessmap
Formerly Kanbanize

Overview

What is Businessmap?

Kanbanize is a business software product that focuses on lean process management, with an emphasis on visualization and flow. The software provides instant visibility into all aspects of a company's workflow, ensuring better team synchronization and performance. Whether it's for startups or Fortune...

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Pricing

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Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://businessmap.io/plans-pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $149 per month 15 users
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Product Demos

Project Management with Businessmap

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Product Details

What is Businessmap?

Kanbanize is a business software product that focuses on lean process management, with an emphasis on visualization and flow. The software provides instant visibility into all aspects of a company's workflow, ensuring better team synchronization and performance. Whether it's for startups or Fortune 100 enterprises, Kanbanize is enterprise-ready and can adapt to changes in any organization to connect strategy with execution.

Kanbanize comes loaded with advanced features such as timesheet reporting in Excel, custom fields per board and task, full email integration, links between tasks, user-level WIP limits, and automation business policies that assign triggers automatically catalyze other events in the system while sending notifications to involved parties. With Kanbanize's unlimited number of customizable projects/boards/tasks (including deadlines,assignees), users get complete control over their workflows. Moreover,the creation of user accounts allows for allocated permissions giving further workflow supervision capabilities.

Through its premium analytics tools - Cumulative Flow Diagrams (CFDs), Carlo Simulations for Forecasting (CSFs), Cycle Time Histograms(CTHs), Throughput Histograms(TPHs) , Aging Work in Progress(AWIP),and Cycle Time Scatterplots- businesses are armed with insightful information related to all tasks available within single boards. Ultimately,Kanbanize aims at streamlining organizations' processes by providing visual representation capability coupled with advanced features that optimize productivity while increasing the speed of delivering goals effectively.

Businessmap Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, French, Polish

Frequently Asked Questions

Businessmap is a project management solution built on the strength of visual dashboards to drive workflows and collaboration.

Businessmap starts at $149.

Planview Portfolios, Jira Software, and ClickUp are common alternatives for Businessmap.

The most common users of Businessmap are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews

Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Kanbanize has gained popularity among mid and top-level management in scaled Agile implementations as it provides clear visibility into work processes. Users have reported that the software has helped them in tracking flow metrics, creating forecasts for future project completion, and coordinating tasks in a team with different expertise areas. Its scalability makes it useful for tracking work processes across several teams for a company area or whole enterprise.

Many users report that Kanbanize is a Swiss Army Knife for IT leaders in mid-sized businesses and regularly used by IT leaders. The software helps visualize existing processes, limit work in progress to optimize the flow of work, and make problem areas more visible. It is also used to better organize and manage projects involving multiple teams, improve user training, and increase visibility. Additionally, the software helps keep track of tasks and their history, log project time, and generate a wide variety of reports. The excellent customer service, reporting, and customization options offered by Kanbanize are helping teams to save time as well as standardize key workflows within their organizations.

Ease of Use: Many users have found Kanbanize to be highly intuitive and easy-to-use on both desktop and mobile app. With a little bit of practice, users found it easy and effortless to implement Kanban Method principles and practices to their company, improving performance at all levels. The software is also highly configurable and powerful but balanced with straightforward configuration options, making it a great option for automation.

Visual Display: Users appreciate the great visual overview of workflows in Kanbanize, making it easy to understand what's being displayed. The software's flexibility allows users to configure cards, columns, swimlanes, and boards in whatever configuration their team needs. Additionally, the user-friendly interface makes adding or moving project cards effortless.

Analytics Module: Kanbanize gathers historical data that can be analyzed in their Analytics module helping users identify inefficiencies in their processes easily. Users found the metrics offered by the software highly useful as they provide multiple workflow charts that make project management easy from initial phases to delivery.

Confusing UI: Some users find the user interface of Kanbanize to be confusing and not well-distributed, making it difficult to navigate and use the software efficiently. This has been a common complaint among reviewers.

Steep learning curve: Several users have reported that the learning curve for implementing Kanbanize is steep, with rich and complex functionality that can be overwhelming, especially for users at KMM level 0 or 1. The complexity of the tool could lead to difficulty in onboarding new team members.

Complicated reporting tool: Some users have expressed disappointment with the complicated reporting tool of Kanbanize, which they found not comfortable to use, requiring them to use an external software for dynamic reports. Many reviewers feel that this feature should be simplified so as not to cause confusion when generating reports.

Users of Kanbanize have provided several recommendations based on their experiences with the software:

  1. Take advantage of the free trial by testing the product to its full potential, exploring resources on the website, and requesting a product demo.

  2. Start with simplicity by watching intro videos and utilizing the knowledge base/support site.

  3. Build one or more test/sandbox boards to familiarize oneself with the software.

Other recommendations include:

  • Exploring Kanbanize for lean management and analytics as it is more sophisticated than average project management tools.
  • Not being intimidated by the Kanban style, as it takes a minute to get used to.
  • Figuring out a system with other users to make it seamless for all parties involved, especially if different departments and roles are using it for different things.
  • Trying Kanbanize if looking for something other than an outdated spreadsheet or similar tools.
  • Praising the technical support provided by Kanbanize, as they walk users through every aspect of the software.
  • Appreciating the generous free trial offered by Kanbanize.

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