Performance Pro vs Asana: Which is a better fit?

Michael L.: Hi, my name is Mike. I'm the staff training and development manager for a credit union. I give Performance Pro a 4 out of 5. We use Performance Pro to do our employee evaluations. We also use it to capture coaching notes, and keep both the employee and the manager updated on progress. It's great, because it's all-in-one software versus pulling from a bunch of different software pieces. Performance Pro is great, because it gives a fairly easy and intuitive solution to delivering feedback, and reviewing people's performance over the course of a year. When working with managers, it's always challenging to get them to put pen to paper or hands to keyboard to write an eloquent and detailed performance evaluation to help their employees grow. Performance Pro is all inclusive in meeting that need. It gives you the ability to capture notes when you're coaching, whether you're doing daily, or weekly, or monthly coaching, and it gives you a place to track goal statuses, so that both the employee and the manager can plug that information as they go. It also does all the fun stuff within the app, whether it's spell checking, whether it's grammar checking, so even if someone isn't eloquent or maybe the best speller it helps them along with that as well. It gives them the confidence that the review they're going to deliver is going to look professional, and sound professional, and also be detailed, and cover all the ins and outs of whatever job you might be doing. One of the things that I don't like about Performance Pro is I feel that there's an inconsistency in the design of some of the pages. It's built in browser. You don't have to install any software, but on some pages you can just click continue, and then you proceed to the next goal, or the next section. On other pages, you'll enter some details, and it requires you to click save to lock in the information. It's not a big deal, but it's one of those things that breaks the flow, because you're never totally sure if you're supposed to just continue, or click save. I think that that destroys a little confidence on the end user when they're unsure of what to do next.

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.