Projjex
Projjex is an interesting online project management solution profiled on Web Worker Daily today. I currently use Basecamp, mostly because of trust in 37signals integrity with my data. Its probably the one area people don’t seem to be assessing at present. Do I know you enough to trust you with my client’s data? And my livelihood? Will you sell it to third parties? You see from a marketing perspective there’s a strong reason to pitch into that ballpark of trust. I like the look of Projexx and don’t get me wrong, they seem like very good people. Give them a try.
April 30th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
But you still like Basecamp better, don’t you? I read the post on Web Worker Daily, but it looked like a sponsored one… Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think that the tool is bad, but I like when reviewers really share what they like and what they don’t like about the tool. For example, I’ve liked this review of a Basecamp alternative http://www.internetredux.com/blog/?p=2127 and I feel that I trust it. Afterall Wrike might be a better solution for me than Basecamp.
May 2nd, 2008 at 3:45 am
Yes I still like Bascecamp better Ethan. And when it comes to it the core reason will always come down to trust and that 37signals have long established a high bar of quality in my worldview even preceding Basecamp, when they were blogging in the earlier days.
Do WWD do sponsored links? I’m not sure, I definately wouldn’t link to a sponsored link if I was aware. But yes I agree that’s a useful tutorial and goes a long way to building that trust.
I also have that barrier of discomfort from moving software now, too. Even a few small projects already running in Basecamp would require effort to move, notification to everyone involved etc… so any move to new project management is perhaps not on the cards unless they come up with some “must have” feature (for example it would be handy to have video conferencing in there
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Also, when it involves project management we have to decide whether we trust this company enough to risk our own business and integrity with their possession of our information. They could onsell information we store, or monitor our converstations for commercial purposes. What country’s privacy laws are applicable, for example.
I don’t really write reviews on nortypig - that’s more my other weblog’s domain - but I do like to share out links to see if something is good. Like, for example, if someone emails me and says they really liked Projjex or Wrike.
Thanks for commenting Ethan, valid points. I hope it wasn’t a sponsored article over on WWD, it would damage their credibility no end if that came to be the case. I get the impression they’re more about giving exposure to software alternatives rather than fully testing and vouching for them. To write the article on Internet Redux you would have to interact with the software for some time.
May 13th, 2008 at 6:28 am
I’m the CEO of Projjex. Thanks for the Projjex comments. Some clarifications:
- we did not sponsor WWD in any way. Their review of Projjex was spontaneous and was performed without any of our help. It looks like they simply liked what they saw
- the issue of data protection is a good one and one that we’ve addressed head-on in our choice of hosting vendor, database design, security, back-up and disaster-recovery, etc. We’re also now starting to address it in our blogs and marketing as we think we’ve done a better job than some of our competition - even, bless their hearts, 37S. Check out our latest blog entry for some additional discussion (http://projjexblog.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/just-how-important-is-ssl/).
- the issue of selling information is also a great topic, and one that is largely over-looked by many customers. Good that you raise it. Projjex absolutely does not and will not share/sell/give its customer data to anybody. Period.
Thanks again for mentioning Projjex and for the debate.
Alex Glassey, CEO, Projjex Software Corporation
May 13th, 2008 at 6:35 am
Hi Alex, thanks for the feedback.