Project Collaboration Tools are a set of Outlook tools that are used to keep team members more engaged in the project, on task, and on time. With this new collaboration within our EPM space, users can remain on top of their projects, stay current on tasks, collaborate effectively with other team members across the enterprise, and more.
Project Collaboration Tools consolidates the project collaboration experience into three simple tabs: My Projects, Shared Projects, and Across Teams. Within each tab, users can find the familiar Gantt Chart view, Team Planner view, Task details, Announcements, and Comments they’re accustomed to. Hovering over a project within a tab will pull in the latest relevant news from that project into My News.
Mockplus
Mockplus is the one-stop product design platform that allows product teams to create a website or mobile app projects online smoothly from wireframing to design handoff. It can also be used as a powerful project management tool to manage projects and design tasks in a breeze.
What’s unique about Mockplus
For product teams that need to make all projects under control can enjoy many great management features:
- Organize and manage projects in hierarchical folders
- Manage all projects and members with role-based permissions
- Create, track and manage all design tasks easily, even at a quick glance
As a powerful online design tool, you and your team can enjoy many design features like:
- Create high-fidelity wireframes or prototype online with drag-and-drop
- Import designs and assets by plugins from Adobe XD, Sketch, Figma and Ps
- Real-time commenting, specs, develop handoff
Sketch
Sketch app aims mainly professionals in web designs as it has become a complete tool for UX design deliverables. It takes the pain out of working with repeated design elements so that designers can design once and use it anywhere. You can find some nested symbols in Sketch to create flexible design elements with ease.
What is unique about Sketch:
- Intuitive interface and an expansive plugin ecosystem
- Link Artboards, add simple animations and turn static screens into clickable prototypes
- Create, update, and share designs at one place
- Offers world-class pixel precision, vector editing, export presets, prototyping
One
ONE by TemplateMonster is a valuable subscription service that provides users with a multitude of high-quality products and web-design tools. When you become a part of this service, you get access to a bunch of ready-made solutions – from themes designed for popular CMS to HTML templates, various extensions, and graphics. As you can understand, everything you need for your next online-project is already waiting for you. Each of them can be downloaded freely and used without any limitations. By the way, it is possible to effectively cut your time (you could spend on mastering your websites) using extra services provided by the team.
What is unique about One:
- Unlimited options – themes, plugins, templates, stock images and whatnot, One is the truly the one stop shop for everything that you need for your web development and creative needs.
- No licence – just pay once and use the entire bouquet of services offered by One for the entire year, without having to worry about licenses of per-service fee.
- Discounts – by subscribing for this service, you become eligible for availing discounts of up to 50% on TemplateMonster products.
- Draftium Pro Mockup Tool – you also get access to this premium mockup tool for free for an entire year.
- Special deals – besides this you also get an opportunity to avail special deals and discounts on web hosting services.
GotoMeeting
Next collaboration software for businesses is GoTo Meeting. GoToMeeting also comes with dozens of useful tools, easy-to-use Web-conferencing solution, to get you started immediately.
What’s unique about GotoMeeting?
- Screen sharing, Web audio, a dial-in conference line, drawing tools and the ability to record meetings.
- With GTM your remote team has no need to go anywhere for meetings.
- HD-quality video is perfect for conducting webinars and hosting conferences.
Filestage
Filestage offers project managers a revolutionary new way to manage their digital projects. Our intuitive tool gives you the ability to bring your stakeholders (internal and external) together to collaborate on the review and approval process.
This specialized platform takes the hassle and confusion out of this complicated process. And it fosters effective communication and makes life much simpler for your clients.
This tool is for…
Project and marketing managers who want to say goodbye to endless email threads and confusing feedback.
Pros
- It’s simple to manage project members (internal and external).
- You can optimize processes to hit all deadlines.
- It gives accurate, in-context feedback.
Cons
- Missing mobile app
- Missing desktop app
Bit
Project managers can use Bit to create interactive project spec documentation, product strategy, internal guides, customer-facing guides product requirement documents, roadmaps, user journeys, prototypes, KPIs, competitive analysis and much more! Collaborate with your teams in real-time and store all project assets in one place for easy and fast access. You can add content from over 70+ various applications that will live inside of your Bit documents. Add files from Google Drive, One Drive, Airtable, Trello cards, Draw.io, Tableau, Lucid Charts and more.
Bit provides a common workplace for connected team members and executives to collaborate, share their knowledge, brainstorm ideas and innovate together.
This tool is for…
Teams of all sizes that need a common workplace to discuss projects and collaborate on responsibilities.
Pros
- Robust smart search to find anything quickly
- Content and knowledge management
- Wiki
- Simple and modern UI
- Document Tracking
Cons:
- No mobile app
- Absence of Gantt charts
- Untimely notifications can be a bit distracting
Basecamp
Basecamp consolidates all of the tools that teams need to finish their work, including message boards, scheduling functionality, to-do lists, group chat, file storage, and more.
This platform aims at driving collaboration and efficiency by putting all of these disparate features under one roof. This goal prevents tasks from slipping through the cracks, and it keeps team members from getting confused.
This tool is for…
Teams of all sizes who want to know exactly what’s going on with their projects at all times.
Pros
- It has competitive pricing, given its functionality.
- It’s userfriendly for admins and project managers.
- It’s easy to see which files are associated with which projects.
Cons
- The export feature suffers from a range of problems.
- The UX can be confusing for non-administrators.
- Basecamp requires a big commitment from every project member.
Scoro
Scoro gives project managers an end-to-end solution for both project and business management. This tool aims at helping project managers control their entire workflow and boost collaboration from a single, central location.
This tool offers a range of collaboration features, such as reporting, real-time dashboards, and task scheduling.
This tool is for…
Businesses that want a single tool that can manage projects, time tracking, sales, finances, and reporting.
Pros
- It’s intuitive and user-friendly.
- It ensures that users can access appropriate information. i
- The information it provides is clear and easy to read.
Cons
- It can be difficult to find contacts.
- It takes a while to fully understand the software.
- The price is often very high.
LiquidPlanner
LiquidPlanner makes it possible for project managers and their teams to focus on the work that really matters—by offering a suite of features (including project management and scheduling) via the cloud.
These features allow teams to track time, collaborate, manage shared resources, schedule tasks, and upload documents in a single space.
This tool is for…
Technology companies and other teams that need to quickly respond to changes.
Pros
- It’s easy for team members to use it.
- It offers a range of views about the project status.
- It facilitates agile methodologies.
Cons
- It lacks third-party integrations.
- The learning curve for new users is steep.
- The explanatory documentation falls short.
Microsoft 365
Share and edit documents, now with messaging
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+Familiar software+Collaborative editing+Teams provides UC+Cost-effective bundling
Microsoft Office may not be the first platform you think of when it comes to collaboration, but this now runs at the heart of the Microsoft 365 cloud-based office suite.
This is important because Microsoft Office remains the most used and therefore important office suite out there, and while there are competitors such as OpenOffice and Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) they still haven’t caught up to the same level of functionality and ease of use.
Therefore as Microsoft Office is likely to be at the heart of many businesses, the move to Microsoft 365 offers a number of advantages, not least the ability for teams to collaborate directly on the same set of documents. This could be anything from work shifts in an Excel spreadsheet, to a presentation in PowerPoint, to client reports written in Word.
Added to this is that Microsoft Teams now comes bundled with a number of Microsoft 365 packages, allowing for Unified Communications integrated with the traditional office software.
What makes Microsoft 365 more attractive is that as a cloud-hosted platform it can be used not just with Windows, but also Mac, Android, and iOS.
Pricing depends on whether you are buying for personal or business use, with fees starting from $6.99 or $8.25 a month per use, with business use requiring pre-paid annual plans.
However, one little advertised alternative option is Microsoft 365 Business Basics, which offers most of the same software packages and options as above, but only comes in at $5 per month per user when paid annually. This makes the entire package extremely cost-effective, especially when compared to standalone UC and collaboration software prices.
Overall, Microsoft 365 doesn’t simply offer a great office suite, but one that is also firmly designed for collaboration and sharing with teams.
Conclusion
Collaboration tools are intended for use by project managers who are collaborating with people outside of their organizations on projects that are critical to their long-term business success. These tools include features that allow you to communicate, strategize, assign work tasks, track updates, collect requirements, route documents, plan expense items, post questions for discussion, report status updates and more.