Customer and project management systems - comparison

2012-Feb,
Dan Dascalescu

For the past few weeks, my team has been looking for a web-based collaborative contact and project management system with tagging support, Gantt charts, and API and Google Apps integration. Aside from Gantt charts, our requirements are pretty basic, and if a software package implemented them well, it would beat the competition by far, hands down.

I've tested 30 products so far, looked at another 25, and NONE satisfies the basic requirements well.

What I've tested in detail: AffinityLive, Apollo HQ, Collabtive, CubeDrive, Do, Glasscubes, Google Contacts, Goplan, GreenRope, Insightly, Manymoon, Mavenlink, myERP.com, NimbleCRM, Nutshell CRM, Podio, Producteev, ProjectCompanion, rule.fm, Solve360, Tangerine District, Teambox, Teamwork PM, TimeToNote, Trello, WORKetc, Wrike, Zoho CRM. For software development I've used over the years Bugzilla, Redmine and Trac.

What I've evaluated (read about their features, checked out the community, but didn't test drive the product): 5pm, Asana, Atlassian/JIRA, Basecamp, Brightpearl, Clarizen, Embraiz CRM, EmForge Portal, FogBugz, Ganttic, Glasnost21, GroupCampProject, KPI (former WorkForceTrack), Nirvana, Open Atrium, PivotalTracker, ProjectManager, ProjectPier, RockTask, Smartsheets, Thinkfuse, Trakeze, Viewpath.

I still have to test: activeCollab, AgileZen, CapsuleCRM, centraldesktop.com, Freedcamp, HeapCRM/Torch, Pivotal, ]Project-Open[

Results

For the detailed results of this research, please contact me at dgotchadascalescu@gmail.com.