Comments on: Joint Contact Inserts Social Media Into Web-Based Project Management

By: Mark Tarium

Mark Tarium — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:55:38 +0000

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By: Markham

Markham — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:02:03 +0000

Granted. But if you wanted to exploit network externalities, i.e. scale up the user base of a particular app as quickly as possible, it would make more sense to apply the charges on some other variable. This way, more users sign up for free, but they would then have to pay fees if they want more projects, or more storage, or no ads.

By: Simon Mackie

Simon Mackie — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:37:29 +0000

Variable costs have very little to do with what these apps charge I would think. Storage and bandwidth costs are very low. I think the per user fee makes sense to most customers (it’s what they’re used to paying on the desktop) so it’s a good way of charging an incremental fee that rises with usage.

By: Markham

Markham — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:49:26 +0000

Can someone explain to me why some of the collaboration and project management apps (like Joint Contact) have a pricing scale that is dependent on the number of users? I may be wrong, but intuitively I would think that the number of users does not add to cost and that the more variable cost items would be the number of projects/workspaces opened and amount of file storage used. Yet it is these last two that are often made unlimited at the next higher subscription level. Also, to tap into network externalities, the SaaS providers would scale up user numbers faster if they uncoupled their subscription rates from the number of users. I am just missing something in this picture?

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By: John

John — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:28:50 +0000

Email integration is a nice feature, especially for those who want to stay out of their inbox as much as possible. Email can be such a productivity killer, but integrating it into a web-based project management service helps keep the distractive inbox at bay.

By: Alice McLane

Alice McLane — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:08:43 +0000

Harshil,
Thank you for noticing that Wrike was the first to introduce email integration. We’re soon releasing another very important project management feature – an option to add task dependencies. This one will be released with our brand new Enterprise version.

By: Renita Lovell

Renita Lovell — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:44:42 +0000

Excellent analysis of the tools. Thank you for sharing.

Renita Lovell

By: Sahil Parikh

Sahil Parikh — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:21:39 +0000

Hi Aliza,
Thanks for your candid comments. Would love to know what is so confusing or non-intuitive about DeskAway so we could improve upon it if its a genuine change.

Cheers!
Sahil

By: Harshil Karia

Harshil Karia — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:25:25 +0000

Just to add – for Joint Contact – the pricing is bordering on ridiculously expensive – my company has just started and in a short span we have accumulated about 30 free lance copywriters to work with us, there’s a design team, and a few coders. So the number overall goes to about 35 employees. And mine is a ‘small business’. If you compare pricing for DA and Joint Contact then you would notice that there is a start difference. As i stated earlier – i dont think the twitter integration solves a real world problem – its a fancy. So having seen that – and seen other features on Joint Contract, its a little overpriced. So a company like mine which is services based and works with about 10 – 15 clients a month, the professional plan at about $250 a year works well for me (i could do with a personal plan as well) – its project based pricing which i think also helps streamline things beause really – which company (small) works on ‘unlimited projects’ – if it does – that company is bound to die soon. If i used Joint Contact – at a team of about 35, it works out to $960 a year. Would you pay more than triple the price for just Twitter integration? I would not.

I do appreciate the interface being developed by Joint Contact – quite like the look and feel of the site but i just think its being a little too overhyped and its not exactly perfect for the end user – it maybe great for internet geeks who want to philander some money but my take is that for the average joe or raj or abdul :) – it doesn’t really solve too many problems. It may in fact complicate them.

By: Harshil Karia

Harshil Karia — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:27:33 +0000

I just upgraded to Deskaway’s Professional Account – i dont see any problems with interface. Infact it’s quite clear and clutter free. Probably a matter of perspective. DA just added the ability to replicate tasks – i think email integration is on its way as well. Basecamp did the same following Wrike i think. Using Social Media tools for Project Management is great. Taking a cue from another DA user – iv started using Google Apps for chat and then alligned that with DA (chat is something thats missing in DA and the rest). While i think the Twitter idea is great – its more style than substance. As is see it – email is still the center of the social media pie – no matter what ‘experts’ may claim. I honestly dont see the Twitter integration solving a new problem.

At the core of PM as long as you have a dashboard, a tracking, reporting and analytics tool, an ability to control a few processes, and outreach to stakeholder through 1 mainstream medium – all this fanciful stuff doesn’t really matter in my opinion.