Orangescrum

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My oversea's project team has been using this software to keep tickets working, communicate back and forth, and set deadlines. I love the way you can just respond back thru the same email that notified me of the communication and not have to log into the actual software and find the ticket to respond. I wish more support companies used this program. Nothing is more frustrating than getting an email that my ticket has been responded to, but I can't see the comment or respond without first logging into the software. OrangeScrum works so well, I almost never see the ticket dashboard. Now that is perfect!

Nachteile

As and end user, I have found nothing I don't like about the software. I only wish more support programs used it. I am a big RackSpace fan, but I hate their ticket support system...OrangeScrum would fix that if only they would give it a try.

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Our organization has been using Orangescrum for more than 2 years now and we find this as one of the most comprehensive tool for project management , task management. Its our go to tool to start our stand up call and verify project status, add details or do task planning. End of day updates are auto captured based on team members details updated. planned Effort vs actual effort planning , resource allocation, overall progress capturing makes it easy to manage various projects.

Nachteile

The product is well designed but there are scope to improvise. Having a skill central for team members would be realy good

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The feature set is pretty good, lots of functionality to manage projects, tasks and timeframes.

Nachteile

The software is very buggy, filters don't work half the time, sorting by date never works, getting a list of all "outstanding" tasks requires a lot of clicks and refreshes. The interface is VERY difficult to use, the system crashes a lot and considering the bugs - in some cases it's absolutely unusable.

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I like the wealth of information available in the summary dashboard as well as the different views for the task list which I find particularly helpful when filling out timesheets. Overall it is incredibly easy to use and customise, and a great aid to tracking the daily TODO list.

Nachteile

The only thing that really bothers me is the very limited WYSIWYG formatting options when adding comments to a task, in particular the lack of a preformatted/code option and/or text colour. Admittedly I am using the free version but that does seem like a pretty basic requirement. A small gripe would be that the addons seem a little overly expensive hence I have learned to live without them.

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I love the accessibility of OrangeScrum and the infinite ability to customize the software to the needs and comfort of all the users within out work groups and organization as a whole.

Nachteile

Screenshots on the Community Edition of the software show OrangeScrum as a mobile app on a phone. This lead me to believe a mobile version would be installed with the software. Thus far I have only found the mobile api as purchasable add-on, but still, I think that is limited to payroll, and not so much a mobile version of Orangescrum.

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The ease of use is the thing I liked most about this. My clients are very comfortable with the layout and platform.

Nachteile

The only con I can think of, is that the web version isn't responsive. Having it responsive would make it easier for clients that don't have the mobile app easier for them to use while on the go.

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Ease of implementation is a powerful factor on thi software. It is very easy to manage, support most of features needed by any company. There are many add-ons you can get for an affordable price. UI is pretty good too

Nachteile

I didnt really noticed any cons. The product works just as described.

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Our agency has been through just about every other project management platform there is. Seriously, mention one, and we have used or at the very least demoed it. The ones that we liked were crazy expensive, and the ones that were more reasonably price were only a little better than excel. OrangeScrum has a delightful blend of affordability and features.

I love the dashboards and views that are available. The Kanban view makes it easy for our teams to coordinate. I can take the resource manager and better coordinate the timelines/deadlines for our clients.

One unique feature that I have come to love is the "Daily Catchup" which allows me to get an automated summary of everything that was accomplished by my staff during the day. We are not a large company, but sometimes managing team and daily tasks can get a little unwieldy.

Nachteile

The biggest issue that I am having with the platform is the billable time. OrangeScrum allows you to set certain tasks to "billable". It's great but in order to create an invoice, you need to access each "project" individually instead of a global view of all billable items. If we could get that straightened out, I think it would be a huge improvement!

Vorteile

Provides a step by step tracking of the entire project making it possible to plan well in advance your resources to avoid any delays.

Nachteile

The fact that OrangeScrum is usually unstable and keeps crushing makes it very difficult to work with.

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Graphical interface ,easy to plan and log task which is assigned

Nachteile

Have problems with hosting with system and user having trouble in logging time

Vorteile

Orangescrum offers complete task management capabilities that facilitates users to create, assign and manage tasks effectively. It becomes easy for managers or team leaders to share files, get real-time updates, comment and receive notifications, thus ensuring an appropriate channel for communication. The tool also allows provides flexibility in creating custom workflows, define project milestones and set permissions.

Nachteile

The tool is bit tedious to use at initial level specially if you are newbie to project management software. The other thing is that the user interface can be customized and flexible enough for users.

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A support team that will always listen to my needs and actually do it.
Recently they've added an emoji feature to the comment section that I asked for last month which is really great help in communicating with overseas colleagues.

Replies quick to let me know how hey acknowledge my problem even it cannot be solved in the near future.

Very large storage space for us to upload our files too.

Nachteile

The file uploading system is sometimes buggy. Eats my comments if any file is attached.

The mobile app version is still not as handy as the browser version (eg. can't select whom to notify in the comment section, tasks can only be viewed in lists instead of kanban)

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The price was the primary reason I tried this software. The price is low comparatively.

Nachteile

I have consulted with a dozen companies and have used half a dozen project management tools and this is probably my least favorite. No intuitive way for a manager to see outstanding tasks for employees s)he is responsible for. No intuitive way for a user to see tasks are outstanding regardless of project, but can only see outstanding tasks for a project. Cannot group tasks in a project. Cannot asign sub tasks. There is an issue with login. Someone else on the team complained about the issue. Now I am struggling with the same issue.

Vorteile

Clearly structured and self-explanatory user interface for PM experts.
Not overloaded with functions and therefore well applicable for SMEs. The hybrid approach (classic & agile) is in the spirit of the times.

Nachteile

Unfortunately you have to buy some useful modules to complete the application.

Vorteile

OrangeScrum simplifies your project management life: it makes easy to handle all aspects of your projects. You can easily manage tasks, create a direct communication between team members, assign resources and tasks to a particular person and keep track of your expenses. It combines project management, task management and collaboration in a unique Open Source platform giving you total control over your projects.

- Open source.
- Resource planning and team member reminders via daily updates
- Easy to use
- Easy to custom
- Available in 3 options: Community, Cloud and Enterprise
- Inexpensive

Nachteile

Many things are paid, as a open source software I have expected some of the good features can be free like invoice & Client Management.

- Portfolio management not available
- Have to pay onetime off for extra features
- Facing database connection error so many time
- Sending email to the admin not creating task or ticket (only adding email reply into the same task)

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good app with rich feature and menu for collab

Nachteile

sometimes startup just have a minimium budget hehehehe...

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As an organization, we moved to Agile about a year ago and we use Orange Scrum to track our sprints and iterations. Gives a very clear and visual progress of our sprint work. Orange Scrum provides different graphs to indicate the progress of the product development and helps us create individual tasks to reach the goal set by the product team

Nachteile

The tool is awesome but the only thing I would like to point out is we can have more options and configurations which are customizable in nature more specific for our team

Vorteile

Easy to install, good initial feature set.

Nachteile

Most "core" features require a subscription/additional purchases which is not what the website led me to believe.

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Ease of use, very good customer service and an affordable price.
We are using Orange Scrum for an year after a deep research for a good and affordable online project management tool and we are sure now that we chose the right one.

Nachteile

The interface design is sometimes not as eye-catchy as in other similar but more expensive online project managers.

Vorteile

Basic ticketing system didn't require a big learning curve. Most things were where there should be.

Nachteile

For a good workflow software, Gantt chart interactivity is crucial and Orangescrum's is clunky & buggy. Making date changes was a roll of the dice if they'd save or not & screen resizing issues made it unworkable. Tried but couldn't get the rest of the team to buy into it & we moved onto more polished workflow software.

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I really like how it is extremely easy to use. Especially for its price point, you can get a lot out of this software.

Nachteile

I definitely wish there was more to it. I would be willing to spend a tad bit more to be able to customize it more.

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I was very impressed with the ease of use of its interface and all its features to manage projects.
It is a platform that can be customized to our needs.
It maintains a technical support that offers assistance to any requirement.
A very important fact for those who manage their projects using other platforms, is that it offers a specialized service in migrating data from their projects to OrangeScrum.

Nachteile

The software seemed quite stable, flexible in its use, but they have many more benefits that are only applicable to your project as long as you acquire the payment license, of which there is a wide variety at affordable prices and according to the importance and complexity of this tool.

Vorteile

OrangeScrum is a software that has all the necessary features for project control softwares.

I like that the registration is very simple, the price is easy to understand and perhaps for teams of many people can reduce the usual cost of this type of software.

It includes time log, generation of invoices, control of tasks, assignment of responsible, management of the status of each task within the project. It has a Gant view and another Kanban view.

Nachteile

What I do not like is that at the design level it does not look modern and maybe it can improve in that sense; however, it works as it should.

Another thing that I do not like is in the subject of the invoice, I can not change the location of the elements of the invoice to adapt it to my current invoice scheme.

Similarly, the invoices are not intended for a public outside the United States, for example, for the Latin American market it is necessary to include fields within the invoice that do not exist in this application.

Vorteile

Simplicity and easy to use. Has many add-ons and very modular. The people behind this product support are excellent, they provide quick responses to problems I had before. For me this product is best value for money to spend on project management tools.

Nachteile

Its too bad the application written in PHP. There is no option to personalize themes through configuration panel. I also cannot found a documentation to write an add-on.

Vorteile

Able to track contractors
Different views of your tasks
Easy to visualize what work needs to be done

Nachteile

Takes a while to learn what all is possible with the software
Mobile app isn’t too useful, I usually end up signing on through my browser

Vorteile

Es una herramienta intuitiva y de fácil manejo.

Nachteile

Las pocas opciones que tiene para conectarse a plataformas de BI como Qlik Sense, Power BI, falta documentación y orientación en este aspecto. Adicionalmente el soporte al cliente es supremamente malo. Se demoran demasiado en responder, para uno sacar un reporte de tiempos es bastante manual, y deberían mejorar en este aspecto. Tuvimos muy mala experiencia en cuanto a esto.

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Vorteile

We used a very small are of the product. The task management was very well defined in the tool.

Nachteile

Since we used very few features of the product so there is nothing negative that I can point right now.

Vorteile

OrangeScrum is my favourite project management software. We have used it for 3 years now and it always performs better. What I like it best for is their Scrum module which has implemented the Agile Scrum methodology perfectly well.
The software is easy to use and self paced starters can get along quite easily. At the moment we use it for advanced functionalities including time tracking and resource management for our large multi-site environment.

Nachteile

Everything looks great and okay, the only area I would like to see improvements on is the reports. Probably a do it yourself report generation module would be ideal but that has been compensated by the fact that one can extract the data via API and use their statistical tools for advanced reporting. Otherwise the basic reports are sufficient for most of the use cases.

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This is a very robust system when it works. Tons of features. Very flexible. Well designed, VISUALLY. Good pricing.

Nachteile

No commitment to fixing issues with the software even though they are pointed out and promised to be fixed. I tried to be as considerate and thoughtful as I could -- asking if maybe I was doing something wrong... I sent them the screenshots they asked for... we did a screen-share. Nothing.

Poor user experience design -- things in weird places, notifications keep happening for things from a YEAR ago. You mention this to them and they don't care. They just repeat back to you the way you are currently supposed to use it instead of considering the fact that you should not have to click one place on the TASKS area to access all the tasks. And that the over all experience is just confusing as some other people have mentioned.

Filters not working, bad and unintuitive design and structure to certain features or screens.

No awareness of UX strategy at all. Don't care about the user. Just care about bringing on customers.

Suspicious name dropping on their website about what brands use their software. Pretty sure this is not used by Uber when this team cannot even fix a defective task filter feature in 30 days. How am I the only one that found out that if you filter by a task status it not only shows the wrong count, but doesn't show ALL of the tasks in that status?

Trial was buggy, even. Locked features within days from when I signed up for it even though these features were supposed to be unlocked. Told them about it -- they didn't care.

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What I like about OrangeScrum is that it has a great user interface that allow you to easily manage projects, monitor tasks and that the open source/community edition has plenty of features. Another great pro is that it's self hosted and you're not storing your complete data set in the cloud.

Nachteile

So far I've not been really able to determine any noticeable cons on this software other than that the software was running unstable after installation. We had to apply some manual code fixes to fix this problem, but it was minor.

Vorteile

We used orangescrum to manage our project tasks and collaboration. It was fairly simple to install and use, once you understand the basics of project management

Nachteile

We found the email alerts to be too many and redundant. Customization was also not simple, which eventually led to the application being under utilized by the team, who preferred to use the help desk application

Vorteile

The interface during the demo period when we were using the hosted cloud solution.

Nachteile

There are features that have not worked as expected, like reporting, forecasting, reoccurring tasks, actuals calculated incorrectly, 404 messages. Especially the resource forecasting which does not work. The limitations that they did not mention when we asked early on, such as multiple holiday calendars, multiple working schedules.

Vorteile

easy to install and its on php. anything we need we can have it changed by our developers themselves. the customer service is great.

Nachteile

least is non that i can think of. if the prices were a bit lower for the ad-ons, it would be much popular in emerging markets and developing countries.

Vorteile

Orange scrum includes an all in one screen covering all modules from project planning to visual project presentation. It is also very simply to understand and use.

Nachteile

It is harware specific in that it only coveres mac, android, iphone and windows. There is no local coverage for linux users apart from the web-based application which not every user will prefer.

Vorteile

Tracking and assigning Task are organised and delegation to team is organized and tracked properly

Nachteile

Some times things get complicated to make some stuff work, for normal users its difficult to capture the problem

Vorteile

Time tracking of individual resources on tasks , daily resource utilization, mobile app

Nachteile

Need improvement on Root causing of reasons for planned vs actual variance and taking corrective and preventive actions and Better Dashboards for top management about project status

Vorteile

It enables project progress tracking on each of the project modules.
It assists in time management to ensure projects are completed in timely fashion.
It simplifies human resource tasks such as time sheets, attendance and leaves.

Nachteile

The software has a lot of unresolved bugs, Which makes it very difficult to setup correctly and this is also reflected during system usage where the system may crush and causes loss of useful data.

Vorteile

It has time-sheet and punch in/out functionalities that make it easy to monitor employee activities on a daily basis.

Nachteile

It experiences frequent downtime thereby making it impossible to execute important HR functions like leave approvals.

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When I set out to find a task tracker I found plenty of Cloud based services that seemed to do what I wanted but I really needed to have more control. As a programmer and designer I wanted something that not only worked but that I could also plug into my local systems. OrangeScrum seems to allow me to do that, the addons are a single cost and the self hosting option seems to be priced right.

Nachteile

It took me a couple days to get the community edition installed. I'm using Slackware 15 (bleeding edge features) and had to downgrade some packages to get OS installed. Installation took awhile as the instructions would assume it to work perfectly out of the box. Granted my distro was not "supported" but its just a web app, you don't need a package to make it work and I'd like to have some instructions to aid in those efforts.

Vorteile

I don't find anything as a pro in this software as the other softwares in the market provide good feel than this.

Nachteile

Very slow in performance
Cannot handle the load
UI is not user-friendly. Hard while switching between tasks of different projects

Vorteile

The ease of use and installation, main functionnalities are very useful

Nachteile

I was not able to customize appearance at first use

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Reports are the new feature that has been added. We have Cloud version installed and really these feature is very useful to get accurate and average reports of tasks and no:of days spent for a particular task of a project in a fraction of seconds. Functionalities of the sub-features under 'Reports' are extremely fast and useful for a software company like our's.
Resource Utilization page and weekly status are used frequently to capture daily tasks report..

Nachteile

I would suggest if Task# or its title is present in "Resolution Time Report" would be fine. because it already has average days and total no:of days to resolve the tasks with no:of tasks, if just an identification is linked to this feature it would be more transparent to extract reports immediately....

Vorteile

Product is easy to use, and helps in daily activity

Nachteile

There are too many features, It gets quite confusing if some one try to do find something new

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Very good service, fast. Excellent support, very quick responses and they help you to solve problems (not that there are much problems, but it is good to know they help out when you need them).

Nachteile

Not all features we needed are accessible in control panel, but their support team help out quickly to resolve issues.

Vorteile

Orangescrum enables users to collaborate on projects, and displays this in timelines and analytical dashboard very well

Nachteile

It is not stable and some times its up, some times it is down. I hope they get to have a stable release

Vorteile

I like that orangescrum has a lot of customization and has good manageability. Our instance is installed on a dedicated sever on our environment which gives us a lot of control over access

Nachteile

I dislike that it feels like the product feels out of date compared to other solutions. Also, you have to set this product whereas a lot of other similar products work right away without any setup time

Vorteile

Very user friendly interface and an eye candy as well
Works like a charm
Monitoring the user activity is very easy
Totally customizable that can suit everyone's needs
Open source for small organizations

Nachteile

Sometimes we get lost in navigation
Confusing for first time users
Nothing more which I can think of.

Vorteile

I had trouble in the free Community Edition, and they didn't hesitate to provide me with their full support to get the issue resolved.

Nachteile

Lack of subtasks in the Community Edition, but this is a pretty minor inconvenience for the free tier of a product.

Vorteile

User Friendly, AddOn very complete, and assist us in managing the project

Nachteile

sometimes find mistakes or bugs on orangescrum old version

Vorteile

We loe how the open source character of the software allows us to host it on our server and do as we need.

Nachteile

It is challenging to install if you dont have the right server settings. Also, it isn't as usable as the standard versions but you can always buy more addons.