Comments on: Product Review: activeCollab

By: Joel Falconer

Joel Falconer — Sat, 23 May 2009 09:31:07 +0000

Works fine here.

By: web design leeds

web design leeds — Sat, 23 May 2009 08:26:15 +0000

is link broken?

By: John Peilow

John Peilow — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:26:22 +0000

@Nathan Barry : We have tried everything from GoPlan.org to Basecamphq.com including ActiveCollab but finally settled on TeamworkPM.net. Basecamp TBH was our first choice as it is the most popular when we started searching but the lack of due dates on tasks, lack of language support, poor response from 37signals led us to look for an alternative.

ActiveCollab beats GoPlan hands down, has some of the features lacking in Basecamp but ultimately didn’t offer the UI or feature set of TeamworkPM. The ability to run on your own servers is a massive plus though…

just my 2 cents,

John.

By: David Molliere

David Molliere — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:11:58 +0000

I have been using ActiveCollab for a long time, first as an open source app but when 1.0 came out it was such an improvement that I gladly paid the 400$ to get the corporate licence. As a french speaking webdesigner, my client need a french interface and aC can be localized while Basecamp doesn’t seem to care about non english speaking customers…

I am glad I went for aC, more than 3/4 of my clients use it which is a godd rate of adoption. Time tracking is invaluable and the UI and features constantly improve… Kudos to Ilija and his team on suppor too : fast and efficient !

By: mark rushworth

mark rushworth — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:08:43 +0000

i second project pier with a basecampesque skin (zura blue steel) its amazing!

By: Priyanka

Priyanka — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:43:55 +0000

If you are looking for something more than the simple pm tool and less complex than the hi-end ones, check out DeskAway .It is a great collaborative tool.

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By: riki

riki — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:47:50 +0000

I don’t find Basecamp that useful. You can’t submit dev tickets, it’s really just a to-do list, which grinds to a halt if you have a massive list.

By: ross

ross — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:06:23 +0000

itd be nice to see a direct comparison between this and basecamp – i have 8 employees using basecamp and it costs a small fortune for the amount of projects we use through it – therefore a one off payment that can have a similar system would be great.

By: squidreturns

squidreturns — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:00:32 +0000

I switched from Basecamp to Projectpier to ActiveCollab. I liked basecamp, but work in a technical field where I can’t trust client data to a “cloud” service – I have to sign confidentiality agreements and if I opened up Basecamp for client collaboration I’d lose clients for violating control of their data to an untrusted third party.

So I found PP which allowed me to host my own, but I found the lack of a reliable calendar option to be a big problem. There are beta hacks that you can install to get a calendar, but they don’t cut the mustard.

I moved to AC which is expensive, but no moreso than a midrange basecamp subscription for a year or a copy of MS Project. I really like AC but there was one annoying problem in that people weren’t getting notified of activities based on their subscription to a task. I see that the AC development team pushed out a fix to this the other day.

I like that PP and AC allow you to project manage without needing to be a Project Management Mastermind. But the two most important things that make it worth it to me are version control of documents and threaded discussions instead of e-mail.