Basically a business tool, Mavenlink provides not only the ability to collaborate but also the means to conduct business using comprehensive and simple transaction tools. It’s in built system guides you, your team members and your clients throughout the completion of a project–from proposal to payment.

You can start using the tool just by signing up for a free account. Once you login to the Mavenlink project workspace, you’ll find the Mavenlink dashboard at the bottom of the screen. The important part of the dashboard is the projects section. This section contains a summary of the project status as well as the recent posts of the projects on which you are working. To begin working on a project, you’ll have to create a workspace where you can add details about your project and invite clients or consultants to your workspace.

Once the workspace is ready and you have invited the clients or consultants, you can start posting messages on the workspace and upload necessary files. Your project collaborators will be able to view your message, comment on it and even post news. By default, the posts are visible to all the members of your project so it’s up to you to decide whether or not a particular post should be viewed by members of your project. Members can also comment on your posts through their emails-without having to login to Mavenlink dashboard.

A cool feature of this application is its Project tracker. Using the Project tracker, you can go to any workspace by clicking on the project title. The activity feed tab on the other hand provides a list of posts across all projects, thereby giving you access to recent activity. In addition, it enables you to add or manage tasks and deliverables required to complete your project. Based on this, assignment can be made, dates can be set and status tracked. In addition, you can also add key dates and milestones which act as a deadline for tasks to be completed.

Some of its notable features include: project collaboration system for proposal and payments, communication across workflows, tracking time and invoice on tasks, integration of your Google Docs, Calendar, and Contacts.

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Perq, a short for “perquisite”, is a leave management tool, designed and developed by Matter; a strategic design company. Perq aims at making human experiences better through systematically applied research and design, and is considered to be the world’s best tool for leave management. If you are looking for ways to manage your company’s leave policy, allowances, requests and approvals, benefit levels, and notifications; Perq is the easy and enjoyable solution.

Perq has been designed with an intention to enable HR managers, business owners, and everyone who manages staff leave keep a track on leaves taken by employees during a period. Managers use Perq to create company leave policy, set benefit levels, and manage staff leave requests while staff members use the tool to make requests and keep track of leave allowances with instant updates and an easy-to-read dashboard.

The idea behind the development of Perq is to help create a value for leave allowances thereby keeping managers and staff on the same page with leave policies and approvals of a company. For most companies, Perq has proven to be a great tool for managing leave according to legal regulations.

If you have a project to complete, Perq will help you round out your business tools as the go-to solution for managing leave. In addition, it will automatically update your calendar in Outlook, iCal, Google calendar. Some of its few unique features include: creating earning rules for different types of leave benefits, creating automatic accrual and rollover calculations and providing request and approval tracking with allowance meters that display available days.

Perq uses subscription pricing based on the number of users and begins at a few dollars per month. What’s more? It also allows license and deployment of “white label” product for enterprises with special brand or security requirements.

Finally, Perq is for any company that provides time off or leaves as a benefit to full-time employees and needs a simple way to manage it. It tracks and communicates those multiple, interrelated points of information, according to rules created by you. You set the rules; Perq does the math and keeps things organized!

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bigWebApps HelpDesk is an on-demand, help desk solution that gives users a system that is not only easy to set-up, learn and manage, but engages all involved in the resolution process in a way that ensures adoption with a smile. bigWebApps HelpDesk is a geat application that works quickly and is easy to get along with.

Using the app you can custom define levels depending on the skill set of your technicians and the size of your organization. HelpDesk expands with you as you grow.

You can assign specific time to the tasks that need to be done, the time tracking mechanism allows you to keep a track of the time worked by a technician, Time can be assigned to specific task types and rate types based on how the project is setup.

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The idea behind the development of Socialwok was to create media feeds, share information, web links, documents and videos within the organization as well as with external parties; create profiles and status feed pages and publish them on various social networks, websites, blogs, tweets and web pages.

The service is free with customizations available by installing applications and widgets from the Socialwok application platform while paid subscription provides additional administrative features; applications and dedicated support are also available for companies.

A new version of Socialwok has been released that provides: new mention icon in the updater to help users mention people or feeds in messages, new invitation HTML emails for joining a network, external feeds and private feeds, message inserted into email invites for private and external feeds informing the user of what to expect when joining the feed, bug fixed: deleting of comments was failing.

In addition, Socialwok has also released a new plugin for Microsoft Outlook called the Socialwok Outlook Social Connector. It lets Outlook users view a sender’s Socialwok activity stream along side of a received email message and see their Socialwok network contacts email addresses, profile details and photos in an Outlook Contacts folder. By working closely with Microsoft, Socialwok aims at realize it’s vision of being the largest business social collaboration network for cloud based office productivity in the world.

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The process does not seem that complex. Upload your local newspaper, magazine or newsletter to the website or send it as an email attachment. The same plain PDF  can also be used for print. Paperlit will take your document, convert it for different screen resolutions and mobile networks, index the text for search optimization, prepare the social feeds and place it all on their secure cloud. They send a confirmation email when your electronic publication is ready to for your readers to read on their smart phones, tablets and PCs.

Paperlit is the easy, fast and cost effective way to automatically publish your content to mobile phones and the web browsers. They have a completely automatic and fully managed service so that you can focus on your publication while they focus on its distribution to mobile and web readers.

There are a range of different business models to choose from for publishing your newspaper, magazine or brochure. Paperlit can be easily integrated with your sales and subscription management system with a simple API.

When the newspaper or magazine is uploaded, copies are sent across 15 key locations around the world on a global content delivery network (CDN) that spans North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Paperlit also has an iPhone application, that is fully customized to be used by many readers.

The entire user interface can be modified with your brand, logo and colors along with your customized web digital edition under your own URL. Paperlit gives you a clear picture of the statistics of your readers through their fully integrated smartphones, tablets and web clients with industry standard analytics tools.

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With the motto; Get faster, Get smarter! Tracking Time a web-based application, enables its users track time spent by their employees on various projects, customers, the company or on themselves. Tracking Time automates this process by capturing time electronically thereby, providing a quick and convenient way of recording, viewing, adjusting and reporting time when compared to manual recording methods.

The idea behind this development is to provide employer’s with: billable hours and project analysis. The billable hour allows you to capture and report on all hours what should be billed to the customer while the project analysis allows you to work on or manage providing transparency to the labor involved in completing the project.

In addition, this web-based application also enables its user’s view and track time online and from anywhere. It’s simple! All you have to do is create a project, create the tasks for that project and start analyzing.

In your company panel you will be able to create your customers and team, of course if you are a freelancer your user will be already created. That should be enough! But, if you want to take it to the next level you can also set up your team skills and projects types. That will allow you to analyze further how you or your company performs.

Once you have created a project, you can assign tasks. Just add a title, select a user and it’s ready to go. This lightweight desktop application will show you all assigned tasks with just a one click login. Additionally, the software consists of two components: an administration website that allows you to set up your company’s tasks, projects and users and a lightweight desktop widget where you or your team log time in realtime. This widget can be installed in as many computers that you want just like Skype, MSN or Google talk.

Originally developed for an employer to determine payroll, this software is now being increasingly used for project costing, estimation and management.

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This software not only consolidated related activities but also is Very user friendly. Anyone with the basic accounting knowledge can record the details. When it come to providing data of core accounting this is convenient and consolidating. There is detailed information about profit and loss, Income and expense statements and creation of new fields. One can drill down data in any form item wise or statement wise. Apart from these, there are some items that cannot be altered or changed in this accounting system. This stringency is for items that are related to tax. This way one need not consolidating these accounts separately while filing for tax.

One more important short coming about this is that this accounting software is only for the use of sole proprietors. However, Outright is reliable, fast and is complete when it comes to accounting for small and medium businesses.

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Billing boss has all the elements that are necessary for the online invoicing. One of the important features is to include easy creating invoice that facilitates online payments through services like PayPal and credit card services like Master card and Visa. These invoicing systems which are usually with the sales team should be flexible enough to be shared with the other departments. This is definite in the caseof Accounts department for easy book keeping and preparation of accounts. This way Billing Boss is ideal invoicing software for small and medium companies.

Apart from this, there are some basic templates which save the time for making templates. One can also prepare their own template if they need to customize. Being an online invoicing system the information is available 24 hours a day and 7 days a week giving that edge to business and advantage to buyers. Also, this service is available even on your I phone. Billing boss is available in more than 5 languages. In short billing boss is one software that takes care of the invoicing solutions for small and medium businesses (SMB) and free lancers.

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Founded by Lucian Baciu in August 2009, this is a very important tool for those who are responsible for the smooth running of day to activities. This was not developed in the narrow sense of storing and retrieving the customer data but as something that depicts the atomic level of project planning. These activities include everything from scheduling the initial ice breaking meetings to the closure of the deal. One can not only store data but also track data with ease.

The USP of this tool is a dashboard that gives up to date information about the on going activity with business. The advantage with  this dash board is that  even in the absence of  people who deal a particular task there will be no lacuna for the business regarding the  information to carry out tasks to the next level. Another important highlight is that this tool has the feature of having the complete database of the clients and other important contacts. This is so well designed that it provides space even for the recording the minutes of meeting with each customer. This way, one will have a concrete data as a proof for each meeting and use it for further actions.

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The important features of the product include task management which is nothing but the simple To-do list in an organized manner. There is a template that is specifically designed for event management which is useful in successful carrying out of events These include critical business incidents  like  product launch and other marketing events. There is a feature called document sharing space that enables in giving permissions to more than one person or organization to share date when one has to work collaboratively. One of the most important and unique feature is budgetary documentation software that are more useful for non profit organization where most of the work is revenue management. This way Plan zone has a comprehensive and consolidated feature that can work for any vertical of the business.

Other features include WYSIWYG editor white board facility for multi language documentation ability to merge the Google docs and MS project or MS Excel into the software. The best feature about merging these spread sheet is you either merge this into the whole project or a part of it. There are various plans that are customized based on the number projects or number of users and free version with limited features and limited users.

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