Project Open is a task/time/billing management tool. The marketing web site is very trendy and in comparison the look of the actual tool is very disappointing. Fortunately it’s about more than looks. The tool is fairly intuitive if at times you are overwhelmed by options. It is however more oriented towards project tracking and report generation than it is to helping those actually involved in the project. Not for me.
A couple of days ago I received an email from this company saying that they thought that their solution would meet my requirements. I’m afraid that it doesn’t.
Easy Projects .NET is primarily a task and billing tool that seems to be oriented towards marketing agencies that wish to manage multiple client projects. The opening page gives a project summary and along the top are the options Notifications, Message Board, Workflow History and Project Activities.
The workflow history and project activities sections are mainly reports, though you do have the possibility to add new activities to the latter. Strangely there is no calender associated with these. The message board is just that, there is no forum/discussion functionality. Notifications is simply an administration feature that allows you to choose when and how you would like to be notified of changes. That’s it! Considering the limited numbered of options the interface is overly complicated and I keep wondering whether I’ve missed something… One thing that drove me crazy was the opening of new windows at nearly every turn. I had 5 open at one stage!!
This one is not for me.
