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Basecamp anyone?

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Fresh Baked Printing:
My wife is a Project Manager and they use Basecamp.  It basically a project management tool like Microsofts Sharepoint, but cheaper and fits smaller orgs better. Subscription based.

mk162:
wouldn't it be cheaper to use OneNote from microsoft?  On a network it would be pretty sweet.  Maybe setup some templates.

I will say that an actual program is a better bet.  $20 a month of basecamp seems steep when for $40 or $50 you could do either T-quoter or Priceit.

In other words, waste of money.  Get something that is built to do what you need it to do, rather than make something else work...sort of.

Fresh Baked Printing:

--- Quote from: mk162 on March 20, 2012, 11:04:53 AM ---wouldn't it be cheaper to use OneNote from microsoft?  On a network it would be pretty sweet.  Maybe setup some templates.

I will say that an actual program is a better bet.  $20 a month of basecamp seems steep when for $40 or $50 you could do either T-quoter or Priceit.

In other words, waste of money.  Get something that is built to do what you need it to do, rather than make something else work...sort of.

--- End quote ---

Yep, use a manager that was written for the industry rather than trying to get something else to adapt.

patfinn:
we use basecamp for all of our art side of the projects, files proofs design notes etc. then for everything else we use shopworks.. which is great. it handles everything. works awesome for us, its extremely powerful software.

Dottonedan:
Just as an FYI, while at Disney, they used a program called Merlin. If its off the shelf, it may be outdated.  I don't think it was written especially for them, but sure could have been. They have a department that does make programs for each dept. but Merlin was what was used for our shop and our documents would easily transfer to other parts of the company and integrate our data to be added to the other departments that did reports and such.

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