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Have you been using Monday.com but are now tired because of its usability and looking for better options with the same features yet better functionality? Congratulations, you are in the right place. In today’s article, we are going to share with you the top 5 limitations of Monday.com, and along with that, we will be sharing with you the best substitute to try out in place of Monday.com. Just read on.
With so many options available, picking "the one" might be difficult. While a plan may appear to be inexpensive at first glance, its features may not deliver good value in the long run. Furthermore, the functionalities may not scale up with your organization, causing project progress to be hampered.
IDC investigated the value and benefits of utilizing Asana to support and increase internal collaboration, processes, and project delivery to establish the ROI of Asana for enterprises. IDC conducted eleven in-depth interviews with firms that have an extensive understanding of Asana and use it daily.
According to IDC, study participants gained tremendous value from Asana, with a three-year ROI of 437 percent. When it comes to increasing staff productivity, Asana is extremely effective, saving a firm $341,900 for 100 Asana daily users.
Asana reduces work about work by providing customers with the clarity and alignment they need to stay connected, which includes a 55 percent reduction in time spent searching for information and an almost 80 percent increase in time for creative and innovative work. We're helping millions of clients to complete their tasks faster by increasing workforce productivity by 5.5 percent.
In 2020, the Rams received a complete rebranding, including new uniforms and fan gear. It's been a pivotal year, with the opening of SoFi Stadium and remote work owing to COVID-19 shelter-in-place adding to the complexity. However, because the creative team had been using Asana to coordinate their work, they were able to effortlessly transfer and collaborate to complete the makeover.
There was no single source of truth for all of the creative requests that came in for the design team before Asana and no way to track them once the job started. Roles and ownership were frequently misunderstood, and reaction times were long.
Asana is now used by the creative and media teams to manage all assets, from the mobile app icon to posters. All creative requests go into one project, with parts indicating which team or project they belong to. Designers can be more creative while setting schedule expectations with cross-functional teams because they are no longer bound by logistical constraints.
The cross-functional teams of the Rams can simply make requests using Asana when the creative team is forced to make each deadline. The Rams were able to effectively debut their rebrand and uniforms thanks to a faster workflow and increased efficiencies.
If you're still unsure about tools like asana and monday.com, don't hesitate to contact us, Makeitfuture, we're here to help!
Cloud Integration, iPaaS, SaaS, BPA… Ough, hard to keep track of all these terms. They are currently used frequently (and increasingly) in the context of automation, and it is sometimes difficult to make a clear distinction and distinction. We have already written blog posts on the terms iPaaS, SaaS and BPA, but we’ll take them up again here to make the difference.
But let’s start with cloud integration, because that’s the central umbrella term in which we embed all the other technologies in this blog post.
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To illustrate these advantages, an example is suitable that we know well from our everyday work as an automation agency:
The central data to be used here is the data of a major customer. This can be the simplest information, such as the address. This address is required in numerous but completely different processes in the company: on the one hand, for correct invoicing in accounting. On the other hand, in the CRM system, where all the data of the large customer is also stored. But the address is also important in sales, for example, when employees go to the sales meeting on site.
Now the customer announces that the address of the company has changed after a move. This information will reach you by e-mail. There are now two options:
01. The e-mail is forwarded to all affected departments, accounting, sales, customer service, marketing… All persons open their corresponding program, CRM, accounting software, marketing tools (such as newsletter marketing) and change the data already stored there of the customer. This means that in multiple applications, different people do exactly the same thing: change one address.
02. But there is also an alternative: By connecting your applications, thus by integrizing them, the customer’s e-mail, or rather the information it contains about the address change, is automatically passed on to all affected applications: CRM, accounting, marketing, ERP. This does not require any clicks, because the cloud integration detects a trigger, i.e. address change, and thus automatically starts the process.
What sounds unimpressive in a single process becomes more effective when such a process occurs several times a day or weekly. Because there is a lot of data that is available in different applications and should always be correct. If these applications are cloud applications they are suitable for cloud integration.
But cloud integration doesn’t just happen. There are now a variety of applications that enable and implement this. Such tools usually allow us to link the relevant cloud applications on a central platform and define clear rules on when, how, where, how much data should be passed on and what happens to them.
To realize cloud integration, there are various applications and technologies that are sometimes used interchangeably.
We have made a first distinction between iPaaS and BPA here.
We explain the term SaaS in more detail here.
Cloud integration is rather an umbrella term that includes numerous technologies, such as SaaS, iPaaS and BPA, and this is also absolutely necessary. Cloud integration is a concept that is made possible by appropriate technologies.
However, all terms share the commonality that they are cloud-based and thus offer enormous potential for growth and scaling. In addition, they are often cheaper to implement and maintain because changed requirements are easy to implement.
As an independent automation agency, we implement cloud integration according to your requirements. We use a variety of SaaS tools and iPaas (strictly speaking BPA) software. Together we find individual solutions that are flexible and scalable.
