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Zenkit

Score8 out of 10

8 Reviews and Ratings

What is Zenkit?

Zenkit is a collaborative SaaS platform for project management, database building and more. This solution enables users to follow their data through its entire lifecycle.

Zenkit allows users to manage their data in any way they need to – build their own CRM, reporting system, or financial planner. Users can share their data and assign tasks to colleagues.

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Top Performing Features

  • Task Management

    This includes the ability to plan, track, collaborate and report on tasks.

    Category average: 9

  • Team Collaboration

    Team collaboration capabilities let team members work directly with each other and provide team updates.

    Category average: 8.8

  • Support for Agile Methodology

    Agile is a time boxed, iterative approach to development that builds software incrementally instead of trying to deliver it all at once near the end.

    Category average: 8

Areas for Improvement

  • Project & financial reporting

    Ability to analyze project and financial data based on custom criteria to gather insights and improve business performance

    Category average: 7.8

  • Document Management

    Document management provides for centralized management of all project documents.

    Category average: 7.9

  • Workflow Automation

    Workflow automation is the ability to route work requests along an approval process automatically.

    Category average: 8.2

Managing your projects the modern way

Pros

  • Collaborating with colleagues in different places.
  • Can be optimized and personalized for different use cases.

Cons

  • File management or integrating external tools for file management could be better.

Return on Investment

  • Easy project updates for a decentralized office.
  • Simple project management usable by everyone.

Alternatives Considered

Todoist

Work improvement with Zenkit

Pros

  • Helps remote collaboration.
  • Zenkit can be individually organized and built to fit your needs.

Cons

  • Linking two collections of different workspaces.
  • Sometimes a bit slow.

Return on Investment

  • Faster project management.
  • We can work together even though our team is all over the country.

Alternatives Considered

Todoist

Zenkit - So much flexibility that you can even implement SCRUM in an mechanical engineering context.

Pros

  • Customizable fields for items (adding dependencies, dates, documentation)
  • Flexibility in display (Different views, amount of displayed detail)

Cons

  • It is best you have an idea on what you want as there is no strong predefined structure.

Return on Investment

  • We use Zenkit for all our project management.

Alternatives Considered

Trello, Asana and Wunderlist

Other Software Used

Synology DiskStation

Decent software with a good feature-set but poor reminder alerts

Pros

  • Task organization.
  • Multiple ways to view the tasks.
  • Has a separate desktop application.

Cons

  • I could never get the notifications to work properly.
  • Sometimes the desktop app crashed.

Return on Investment

  • Helped to manage tasks so that we could hit deadlines and remember important details.

Alternatives Considered

Asana

Other Software Used

Asana

Zenkit makes collaboration fun!

Pros

  • It helps to define the tasks clearly based on the available tools and options.
  • It makes it easy to follow what has been accomplished and what is needed to be done using a multi-level categorizing system.

Cons

  • Providing an API that could help to generate or read the packages automatically could be helpful.

Return on Investment

  • It made the collaborative work on the same project more manageable.
  • It made coordination easier.

Alternatives Considered

Trello