monday.com vs Filestage: Which is a better fit?

Amber: My name is Amber. I'm an IT project manager for a healthcare company. The company size is about 5,000. Also, the product for Monday, I would rate it a five. So I was using Asana prior to monday.com and the reason why that wasn't really working, lack of features. So that product didn't allow a lot of implementations as monday.com allows. Meaning when I'm working with a team, I'm able to just go ahead and put in all of their resources. So the resource management was really great. If there were any files, like large files, it was easier to share out with the team using monday.com so everyone could have access to it. Asana, unfortunately, it just allowed me to track task, but working with a larger sized team and a bigger company, monday.com was perfect for that. I chose monday.com basically for my team and my team's size. So I was able to allow my team to get acquainted with the monday.com product. A lot of them were used to using Asana. A lot of them were used to me tagging them in their task, but I showed them that that tool for monday.com allowed me to go a deeper depth with them and dive into really what their assigned tasks were individually for the team. So they were able to keep track of that. Also, I was managing about four plus projects at the same time, so it was a lot easier for me to go ahead and create different tasks per project for team members. So I worked with the digital team, I worked with creative, I worked with the real estate team. So all of that was just easier to keep separate and just allow those teams to really go in and own their task and own their individual projects that they were doing. When getting set up with monday.com, it really didn't take very long because as a project manager, I am trained to use a lot of different resources and tools. I liked the layout of it a lot better, again, than a lot of the other project management tools that I've used in the past, like Asana and Jira. monday.com just had a very simple design and layout, so it was very easy for me to go ahead if I needed to add anything into projects. Like again, the file sizes were very large for our teams, because they were very large projects. So getting set up took about, I'd say a couple of weeks, but first off the first week was training the team members on using that tool. So they were really happy with the training that we provided for them for that week-long training. Then the second week was just going ahead and doing the trial run with the team to see how again, the team liked the product. They did find it a lot easier to work with again, because when you're managing four different projects and there's about 12 people per team, they like the simplicity of being able to own their task and be able to go in and make their own edits and share their files, sizes, however large, throughout the team. So it took about a couple of weeks, but the team definitely was appreciative of me implementing that tool. So the advice I would give to anyone interested in trying out monday.com, first off the pricing, depends again on what you're looking for. The product is great, so I recommend doing the trial run with your team. I know a lot of people from different companies might have smaller companies, and they're used to using that product like Asana. Our company was much smaller and we really didn't have the funds to try to venture out and try a bunch of different products, but monday.com was recommended to us, so we decided to give that a trial run. Based on the pricing, we were able to afford it. So if you're interested in using that product, do your research, find out what you're looking for specifically. You might not need as many resources as a larger company does, but it is nice to have that benefit for your team members so that they're able to just complete their task on time, keeping track of their own individual projects. They can own that. So yes, just definitely go ahead and do your research. It depends on what company, again, you are. I was healthcare, so for us, our healthcare team was a much larger size, and that product just fit with our team.

Rick: Hi, my name is Rick. I'm director of sales, and I give Filestage a five out of five. For more information, check the links below. Before we used Filestage, we were using combination of emails, text messages, and Dropbox to try and get approvals and share content with our staff internally and with our customers. There were a lot of reasons we ended up going with Filestage, but I guess the big ones were that it was really easy for our clients to understand, b, there was a history of all the revisions and changes and requests, and then I guess the third one was that there was a definitive approval. You've got to click the button to signify that something is approved. So there was no ambiguity in terms of the wording with emails going back and forth or with multiple email streams. Somebody was designated as the lead for our clients, and once they clicked on the button that was approved, we knew it was approved. Getting started with Filestage was it two-step process. Getting started itself was really easy. I mean, they make the onboarding process as simple as you want it to be. If you can craft an email, then you can get it going. If you can upload to your favorite website, you're going with Filestage. The integration, we can make it as deep and as complex as you wanted it to be. So with integration, we started... I guess really, the first week that we've had under the paid program, we were beginning to integrate with it, and it's kind of like an onion. Every week, we find another use for it, another way to plug it in to another application. So the integration has never stopped. We were just finding better ways to work Filestage into our process. The biggest recommendation I have is that if you're having trouble getting in touch with your clients and getting definitive answers for them, give this a try. I mean, it's one of those platforms that got a great free trial. I know that people don't like to start something and then sort of get part way into it and then move out. Dive in. You're going to find out that you like it, and if you're just a little bit iffy as to whether or not you want to pay the monthly fee, once you've been using this for a week or two, you'll find out that your return on investment is one day. The amount of time that it saves you in getting work through on your very first project with your very first customer, it's paid for that entire monthly subscription.