Zoho One vs Asana: Which is a better fit?

Tembi G.: My name is Tembi, and I'm the director of the Young Musicians University, and that is an online music school for kids ages 4-18. We offer self-paced courses in various instruments, and I give Zoho One a five star rating. Before we tried Zoho One, we tried various platforms, but the one that we were leaning more towards was ClickUp. And ClickUp was just a way for our team members to connect, for us to have tasks and different things. But then we came across Zoho One, which offered so much more, and it was just a better choice for our company. The reasons why we ultimately went with Zoho One was because it was more so of an all-in-one solution for our business. And so everything as far as our different apps, everything basically integrated with one another, and we were able to just have more of a cohesiveness between our departments as well as enrollment and tasks and just project management and different things like that. So it's just an all-in-one solution that integrates really well. Zoho One was pretty easy as far as onboarding. They have a good team. They gave us a specialist. They assigned an individual as our, basically the person who walks us through onboarding, and so the process was really good. One of the things I really liked was that anytime I had a question, that they were pretty much available, and so that was a big plus for us as far as onboarding's concerned. The recommendation I have for someone considering Zoho One is to look at your end game. What is your end goal that you're trying to accomplish with your business? For ours, we are a virtual music school, and so we needed tools and apps that would manage a virtual space rather than an in-person. But look at your end goal and see what it is that you need, and then work from there and see if Zoho One would actually provide those resources for your business.

Ellenore K.: My name is Ellenore. I'm an administrative assistant at Equipter, which is a manufacturing company with about 70 employees, and I would give Asana five stars. Well, we are mostly an in-person company, but we have three separate buildings that people are working in. It's a fairly large campus, and people are working in many different departments, and we needed a way to bring everybody's work together so we could all see what we're working on, be able to assign things to other people, and mostly just keep everyone on the same page, because without some kind of system like this, it's chaos. I think the biggest thing that I appreciate about Asana is the visibility that it gives me for other teams and for my team. I think without this, it's just me running around to people's desks, asking questions in different buildings, making sure that we're all understanding things. With Asana, it means that I sort of have eyes on what everyone is doing and can keep track of how I need to fit into that. We have had some limited issues with our dependencies on recurring tasks. We have a fairly substantial, a large task that happens about once a week, and for a while we had dependencies set up so that we couldn't move ahead too quickly in the process before the earlier tasks were done. After a couple of months of that working with one of the more recent updates, we lost the ability to do that. That's a little unfortunate. It's not a huge deal because the people who were involved know what has to happen first, but that was a nice feature that we liked that hasn't been working so well for us recently.