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Zenkit

Score8 out of 10

8 Reviews and Ratings

What is Zenkit?

Zenkit is a collaborative SaaS platform for project management, database building and more. This solution enables users to follow their data through its entire lifecycle.

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Top Performing Features

  • Task Management

    This includes the ability to plan, track, collaborate and report on tasks.

    Category average: 9.2

  • Team Collaboration

    Team collaboration capabilities let team members work directly with each other and provide team updates.

    Category average: 9

  • Support for Agile Methodology

    Agile is a time boxed, iterative approach to development that builds software incrementally instead of trying to deliver it all at once near the end.

    Category average: 8.1

Areas for Improvement

  • Project & financial reporting

    Ability to analyze project and financial data based on custom criteria to gather insights and improve business performance

    Category average: 8.5

  • Document Management

    Document management provides for centralized management of all project documents.

    Category average: 8

  • Workflow Automation

    Workflow automation is the ability to route work requests along an approval process automatically.

    Category average: 8.7

Managing your projects the modern way

Pros

  • Collaborating with colleagues in different places.
  • Can be optimized and personalized for different use cases.

Cons

  • File management or integrating external tools for file management could be better.

Return on Investment

  • Easy project updates for a decentralized office.
  • Simple project management usable by everyone.

Alternatives Considered

Todoist

Work improvement with Zenkit

Pros

  • Helps remote collaboration.
  • Zenkit can be individually organized and built to fit your needs.

Cons

  • Linking two collections of different workspaces.
  • Sometimes a bit slow.

Return on Investment

  • Faster project management.
  • We can work together even though our team is all over the country.

Alternatives Considered

Todoist

Zenkit - So much flexibility that you can even implement SCRUM in an mechanical engineering context.

Pros

  • Customizable fields for items (adding dependencies, dates, documentation)
  • Flexibility in display (Different views, amount of displayed detail)

Cons

  • It is best you have an idea on what you want as there is no strong predefined structure.

Return on Investment

  • We use Zenkit for all our project management.

Alternatives Considered

Trello, Asana and Wunderlist

Other Software Used

Synology DiskStation

Decent software with a good feature-set but poor reminder alerts

Pros

  • Task organization.
  • Multiple ways to view the tasks.
  • Has a separate desktop application.

Cons

  • I could never get the notifications to work properly.
  • Sometimes the desktop app crashed.

Return on Investment

  • Helped to manage tasks so that we could hit deadlines and remember important details.

Alternatives Considered

Asana

Other Software Used

Asana

Zenkit makes collaboration fun!

Pros

  • It helps to define the tasks clearly based on the available tools and options.
  • It makes it easy to follow what has been accomplished and what is needed to be done using a multi-level categorizing system.

Cons

  • Providing an API that could help to generate or read the packages automatically could be helpful.

Return on Investment

  • It made the collaborative work on the same project more manageable.
  • It made coordination easier.

Alternatives Considered

Trello