Hot, Indian, Startup, DeskAway, Project, managers, paradise

Any progress depends on tracking. It is truer for a project. Tracking is just not limited to time or a task. Project manager has to track every thing that goes into the project. You need the right tools to track the project. Tracking is easy if the project is run by a single person. Excel would meet the requirements. What if you have a team who are involved in the project and are located in various locations across the globe? That would be the project manager’s nightmare.

Enter DeskAway. It’s an online service which connects people across the globe, working on the same project through internet. It has all the required features for tracking a project like communication, tracking, to-do list, issue tracker, resource assignment, time reports etc.. That’s all in one tool. Isn’t that a cool thing? This is the dream of every project manager and a tool of this kind is a godsend.

Most important features of the tool:
•    Project management
•    Collaboration
•    Task & Issue tracker
•    Milestone tracker
•    Time sheet
•    File uploads
•    Blog
•    Calendar
•    Discussion forum
•    Wiki

That is a combination of the several different tools you use every day. Most of the corporations do not think the whole process as one monolithic piece. They just separate all the project management activities which are unnecessary overhead. Emailing has a different tool. Tracking has a different tool. This tracking tool does not have a reminder facility to send an email about an important reminder. Don’t even get me started on the issue tracking. That is just a potpourri of tools. Managing all the tools is not project management. Managing the project is what a project manager should do.

Users can register for DeskAway and run up to 3 projects absolutely free. If you wish to upgrade your services or want to run additional projects you buy premium services depending on your requirement. Pricing ranges from $0 to $99 per month.

DeskAway has competition in BaseCampHQ and ZohoProjects. Online project management collaboration is still in its initial stages and there is room for everyone. Looking at the features list DeskAway is a complete product and at least a year ahead of its competition.

DeskAway is best adapted by business which are already an internet based or who has an exposure to internet and want to harness its powers. Large corporations should engage in a make vs buy analysis and see the amount they can save by using DeskAway instead of spending millions of dollars on building one.

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