Strategic Planning Software
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A Project Management Dashboard

Project Management Dashboard Alternative: AchieveIt

AchieveIt and project management tools are built for different purposes. If you're not using Excel for project management - good. But be aware that specialized project management tools have their limitations too.

 Project management platforms are designed to measure activity, tactics, and lower-level tasks. AchieveIt is purpose-built to measure execution and results of a plan as a whole.

Project management dashboards and tools are helpful for allowing team members to organize assignments and tasks, but they often live in a vacuum.

Using project management tools to track multiple projects quickly becomes overwhelming and makes overall visibility nearly impossible.

AchieveIt shows leaders how projects align to larger initiatives, and how those initiatives support the overall plan. Our multi-plan management software provides visibility into the execution of an entire plan - not just a single project - to show progress at an executive level, while also housing the project management details team leaders need.

Use our calculator to determine how much using project management tools may be costing you.

AchieveIt vs PM tools

PM Tool

achieveit

Best for a single team

Designed for expert-level users

Granular project data

Big picture insight across your organization

Alignment between projects, resources & the strategic plan

Context for making better decisions

Visual overview of how initiatives are progressing

Streamlined system for providing progress updates

AchieveIt vs PM tools

PM Tool

achieveit

Best for a single team

Designed for expert-level users

Granular project data

Big picture insight across your organization

Alignment between projects, resources & the strategic plan

Context for making better decisions

Visual overview of how initiatives are progressing

Streamlined system for providing progress updates

Tool purpose-built to drive strategy execution

The benefits of using AchieveIt

AchieveIt vs project management tools big picture visibility

BIG PICTURE VISIBILITY

AchieveIt provides much-needed visibility to see how your initiatives impact the broader, overall goals of your organization. AchieveIt delivers the high-level overview (what’s on track, off track, at risk – and why) in an quickly digestible format – perfect for senior leadership!

AchieveIt vs project management tools better decisioning

BETTER DECISIONING

Multi-plan management software gives project managers the ability to marry the quantitative information with the qualitative. This provides context for the numbers, so can make better decisions, faster

AchieveIt vs project management tools measure results

MEASURE RESULTS

PM tools can often leave leaders wondering if they’re being strategic, or just busy. AchieveIt was designed to provide insights into those metrics across business units, departments, and geographic regions.

AchieveIt vs project management tools real-time dashboard analytics

REAL-TIME DASHBOARDS

Custom dashboards allow you to interact with your data in multiple ways. All the information is synchronized across different views and updated in real-time, so you never have to worry about making decisions based on old data.

AchieveIt vs project management tools automatic email reminders

AUTOMATED EMAIL UPDATES

AchieveIt users receive a single email that allows them to directly provide updates, metrics, and commentary for every item they’re responsible for, across all your plans - without leaving their inbox.

AchieveIt vs project management tools ease of use

EASE OF USE

PM tools typically require an advanced user to operate them effectively. AchieveIt user training takes about an hour and contributors predominantly interact with our system via email.

Sound like AchieveIt might be a better fit than that project management-specific tool you're considering? Ask us about it.