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I’ve been working on a review of activeCollab for two days now and planned to finish it up today. However, today I found out that Derek from 5thirtyone.com did a review on it last year and recently compared activeCollab to Basecamp and GoPlan. Both articles are great and give plenty of details on the plus of activeCollab. I personally have never used BaseCamp however I planned to before I came across activeCollab and like the thought of everything being on my server (and free/opensource). For anybody who does freelance work or uses BaseCamp (or others like it) you really should check out activeCollab (assuming you have server resources, although it doesn’t take much). It does require php5 though (which shouldn’t be a major problem as most hosts have it). I’ve been running activeCollab for a few months now but only recently started really using it with my clients (the biggest one being the Lawton Soccer Club). Before we went back and forth on emails and phone calls about the site and its hard to keep things organized and took to much time for me to go through emails and find tasks he wanted done. activeCollab took a huge load off me and makes things much easier. Its also easy to customize to match your company site or just a fresh design. Keep an eye on the activeCollab site and blog as the big release is coming soon with a load of new features.
Tags: activeCollab, BaseCamp, Project Management
4 Comments
Raychel
August 30th, 2007
at 9:27am
Hi, have a look at this article at PCworld.com. Then go here, and check out the tool. I bet you gonna like this one.
James
August 30th, 2007
at 9:34am
Wrike is nice and I checked it out a few weeks ago while looking around at different options to Basecamp. I prefer activeCollab both because its free but mainly because its hosted on my server. I keep backups of the database daily. So, I know I have a safe copy of my management list. It would suck to lose all my tasks for different clients and have to ask them “what did you need done again?”. I like knowing I have control over it. Plus the upcoming v1.0 of activeCollab will have a lot more features then most of those web apps.
Raychel
August 31st, 2007
at 1:38am
Well, you’re right about control over stuff. The question is whether your server is more secure than any other. I’m sure you keep a lot of your stuff on the web and do you back up all of it? I mean your mail, your pictures, your blog posts? I also was thinking this question over and figured that I trust Google, why shouldn’t I trust a web-based project management tool. Wrike guys say they are trusted by thousands of people all over the world, most of them are businessmen, who keep their plans and projects on Wrike’s server and are not afraid of losing anything. This sounds good enough for me to make sure the tool is reliable.
Leah
April 19th, 2008
at 10:31pm
I’ve been experimenting with various project management tools and have discovered an excellent site. It is a very user friendly, web-based application that is well worth taking the time to explore. Take a few minutes and look at Projjex.com. The tutorials are excellent & you don’t need to be a Rocket Scientist to figure out how to use it. It even offers a free version so you can try it on for size.