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For companies and businesses at the smaller end of the scale looking for a cloud-based project management solution, we think Airtable is a great option. It’s mostly geared toward data organization and some collaborative tools. To do this, it uses a recognizable spreadsheet format where data can be linked together, for instance inventory items to vendors.
Depending on the plan, there are different prices for Airtable. However, it’s free for 1000 records/base or starts at $20/user/month for 50,000 records/base. For access across multiple devices and operating systems, Airtable is a great solution as we found it’s fully compatible. We liked that the mobile interface simply scales the spreadsheets down to tappable cards for easy access and reading. A key benefit for us in Airtable is the way it can be integrated with other services. Additionally, all tables are sharable, allowing users to track who and what changes have been made. A unique chat tool within documents allows for increased collaboration for efficient task completion rates.

From our experience this cloud-based project collaboration and interaction tool makes communication easy across businesses and organizations. Slack is a solution for all industries, offering public channels for team members to begin conversations. Additionally, Slack offers the ability to have direct, private channels ensuring messages arrive exactly where they are meant to.
There are various price plans in place, but these all start at just $6.67/user/month. A key benefit we appreciate is Slack’s unique ability to incorporate social media feeds into the application and ongoing channel conversations. On top of that, Slack has the option to drag and drop images and documents into current chats. With the handy archive feature, we found you can search for conversations, keywords, or documents later on making this a great option for promoting effective team communication.

This is one of the more comprehensive project management tools we’ve come across. Asana has a range of technical features all designed to enhance team collaboration and workflow. It’s user-friendly, and is powerful enough to meet the needs of all business sizes. A key feature we like is the integration capability, seamlessly joining with third-party apps such as Google Sheets, Adobe Creative Cloud, Harvest, Dropbox, and many more. We found that these integrations go a long way towards enhancing a range of areas such as reporting, communications, file sharing, and coordinating.
Asana starts at $10.99/user/month and can be scaled up to Enterprise level if needed. We like the overall functionality of Asana too, as it can track project progress, evaluate timelines, set budgets, and more. For us, Asana really stands out as an effective project management tool, driving productivity. Businesses looking to optimize their team output and collaboration would do well to implement this for everything from daily task to strategic planning.

Agile teams can use Jira as a process management tool in their business. Essentially, it’s a track-and-release software supporting Kanban, Scrum, and hybrid model workflows. We’ve found the ability to create project roadmaps in Jira to be especially functional, allowing teams to map every project and its subsequent progress. The interface includes drag-and-drop functionalities for all project details.
With flexible pricing, Jira can be tailored to businesses of any size. Small teams with fewer than 10 users get it free, while growing team plans start at $7/user/month. We were surprised to find that users can access thousands of business tools here, from productivity to source code apps. As such, Jira’s functionality is ideal for businesses looking to create stories, distribute tasks throughout a team, and even plan sprints.