Vendor Landscape: Project Management Solutions Are Getting SaaSy

Author(s): Amanda Fink

Tight budgets force IT managers to focus on appropriate prioritization and allocation of valuable time and resources. To avoid resource and personnel over-allocation and increase project success, enforce transparency across the entire project lifecycle, including effective communication. Use Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) project management (PM) software as a valuable time-saving tool to achieve these goals.

The five solutions evaluated in this note were selected based on feature capability out of the large number of SaaS PM solutions available. Each of the chosen vendors was compared against the following key criteria:

  • Structured PM features.
  • Resource management.
  • Collaboration functionality.
  • Project analytics and reporting.
  • Usability.
  • Affordability.
  • Hosted storage capacity.

Assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of each solution to find the one best suited for the enterprise.