Bitrix24 vs Agiled: Which is a better fit?

Tembi G.: Hi, my name is Tembi and I'm the Executive Director of the Young Musicians University, and I give Bitrix24 a rating of a four. Prior to Bitrix24, we were using Trello. The reason why we switched from Trello to Bitrix24 was to have more features, and also so our team can collaborate on projects and tasks within the platform. So, we decided to go with Bitrix24 for a couple of reasons. One was it integrated other things, like it also managed our marketing, and so we could tap into what we were doing in say our social media with our Facebook comments and different things, and it would also alert it and kind of keep it all in one central location. Then the other thing is honestly just for more features. So Bitrix does a lot of things, and that's one of the things that we loved about the platform, is that we are able to use so many different entities, such as task management, scheduling, booking, all in one platform, and so that was very, very helpful. So getting started with Bitrix24, it was slightly technical I have to say, but there's a lot of good help videos out there. But the platform itself can seem intimidating if you don't necessarily have technical skills, but once we were able to get everything streamlined and flowing, everything fell in place. So getting started was a little rocky for us just because of the different entities, and we had to choose what features would actually benefit our business. The advice I would give to someone looking to get Bitrix24 up and running is to have someone on your team who's familiar with the technical aspects of setting it up. So, like I said, it's a great platform, but it was a little bit technical for our team, per se. So we ended up using it for a period of time, but looking for something that was less technical. So, I would say just make sure that you have someone who has that technicality or that technical know-how and skillset on your team so that you can maximize the features of Bitrix24.

Robert T.: Hi there. My name's Rob, and I am the president and founder of my organization, and I'm giving Agile a five, and you can click on the link below for more of the review. Before Agile, I was really using, I'm going to call it a Frankenstein. I was using a lot of different applications, everything from Honey Book, to Excel, to Basecamp, to Trello, and trying to manage all of those. Dropbox for client files. It was just trying to piece all of those things together was just too much so I looked at Agile and found that all of those functionalities were built into the one platform. With Agile, the thing that I really like about it is, is with my organization, I'm trying to grow and I wanted to have the infrastructure and the pieces in place so that I could do that easily without having to change it all later. Being able to have a CRM, an HRM, so a human resource management tool built in, but also being able to use it for project management and the client portal. Those pieces together make it so that everything's built in. I'm using it for accounting and proposals now as well. It's really going to be really the backbone of my organization. Getting started with Agile was actually not that big a deal. It's a continual process, and going through all of the tutorials and the videos and the upgrade recently to the new interface was pretty simple. It's really just making sure that you're migrating the data that's important and the information that's important and setting it up so that you can do it. But even if you mess up, it's not that big a deal. You can actually change things pretty easily and quickly on the fly. Getting started with Agile, the biggest piece of advice I'd have for you is be thoughtful on what you're trying to accomplish and why you want the tool in place for your business. Only put the information in that you need to get started. Don't try and migrate everything, because a lot of times if you do that, it's garbage in, garbage out. So be thoughtful on what you're trying to accomplish, what the platform's really going to do for you, and then build your plan and your implementation plan from there. It doesn't have to be a highly documented tome. Use your note cards, use whatever, but build out the process and build it so that it fits your business. Don't make your business fit the tool.