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Hive

Score8.4 out of 10

25 Reviews and Ratings

What is Hive?

Hive Technology offers their eponymous project management and process management application, providing integrations with many popularly used applications for productivity, cloud storage, and collaboration.

Categories & Use Cases

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HIver Technology

Top Performing Features

  • Task Management

    This includes the ability to plan, track, collaborate and report on tasks.

    Category average: 9.1

  • Support for Agile Methodology

    Agile is a time boxed, iterative approach to development that builds software incrementally instead of trying to deliver it all at once near the end.

    Category average: 8.1

  • Team Collaboration

    Team collaboration capabilities let team members work directly with each other and provide team updates.

    Category average: 9

Areas for Improvement

  • Quotes/estimates

    Ability to create, manage and send project fee proposals to customers

    Category average: 8.6

  • Integration with accounting software

    Real-time, two-way sync with accounting or financial software to facilitate project and financial reporting

    Category average: 8.3

  • Budget and Expense Management

    Budget and expense management provides the capability to track all expenses by employee or department and link them back to department. It also enables hourly rates to be set.

    Category average: 8.5

The best and efficient way to organize workflow

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Hive is the solid base for all organization and workflow in our agency. Without Hive, it would be impossible to manage all clients and productions that we need to do in the job.

Hive is easy, friendly and always has improvements to make our work more efficient. From organizing hours of work to make simple ajustments.

Pros

  • Workflow Organization
  • Gathering Hours of work
  • Sharing job information for all employees

Cons

  • IA features
  • Multiple access mistakes
  • Integration with more plattforms

Return on Investment

  • A positive impact on our overall in productivity, project visibility, and team accountability
  • centralized project tracking and collaborative features.
  • helped us consistently hit deadlines and communicate progress more clearly.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

monday.com

Other Software Used

monday.com, Asana, Sprinklr Social

Hive Makes it easier for managing projects.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Hive is used for managing projects provided by several clients. It helps manage projects in the right stages. Assigning various stages to the team has become easier using Hive. Hive let me manage projects and make the milestones delivery to client success. It has created a smooth process of delivering tasks on time from the team side. Has been greatly helpful.

Pros

  • Projects Management.
  • Helps with managing projects well.
  • Team synchronization.
  • Team is sync'd on various stages of the projects.
  • Milestones management.

Cons

  • Maybe provide more integrations with HubSpot and other CRMs.

Return on Investment

  • Hive did help managing team communication in best way.
  • Helped with time tracking of team members.

Alternatives Considered

Basecamp, Asana, ActiveCollab, Atlassian Jira Align and monday.com

Other Software Used

monday.com, Atlassian Jira Align, Basecamp

Great management asset

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to improve teamwork by creating the oportunity to interact with others in a space that is not as strict as the internal platform, we get a way to visualize the status of the job being done. As it has the proof option it's faster to interact and edit. When we have an organizing-next-steps kind of meeting its easy to keep notes in a collaborative way and to fix the steps to take in a list.

Pros

  • Simplicity, it offers a clean environment without risking the outcome. An example of this are the timesheets that allow a fast way to keep track of progress
  • Interaction, the different options make it faster and easier to interact and collaborate in the development of a product. An example of this would be Hive Notes for meetings
  • The different visualisations it offers allow to explore the best ways to affront your projects. I really like the Gantt mappings view to understand who can be contacted at each point

Cons

  • The first steps were confusing, it gets some time to adapt to some of the tools.
  • The labels of status could be easier to change, when you are used to it is OK but newcomers tend to mess them up

Return on Investment

  • I've gotten to know my colleagues better, knowing their roles makes it faster to contact them to complete tasks and that speed makes us optimize and earn better results
  • The jobs speed made us focus on optimization and customization for the client, and that in a better treatment by the client and better revenue
  • We can understand which tasks takes more time and to stimate better what we can ask for

Alternatives Considered

Trello and Microsoft 365

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365, Webex Calling, Camtasia

Great User Friendly Collaborative Tool.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

A helpful tool for individuals to manage projects and tasks. This platform is heavily user-focused, which allows for greater adoption and flexibility of the software. Great platform to help streamline work and low-code options for forms and automation. However, very little thought was given to the Enterprise level and reporting. It is very hard to get a high-level overview of what projects are in the space.

Pros

  • Hive Forms - low code form building for quick delivery.
  • Different views - user can select between Kanban view or Table view.
  • Automation Capabilities - can build automation features without the need for a developer.

Cons

  • No universal Admin role - makes Data governance and integrity hard to maintain.
  • No visibility at an Executive Level - platform tailored to one user versus an organization.
  • Not consistent within the product - one app might have a feature, but you cannot use that feature outside the app space.

Return on Investment

  • Positive user adoption - have more users utilizing this platform than previous predecessors.
  • Unable to have an ROI as unable to successfully report up to Executive Management - this most likely will have us moving away from this platform.

Alternatives Considered

Planview PPM Pro

Effective work management and automation platform

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Hive is a decent alternative project management app with a variety of add-ons that can extend the platform's functionality upon need. We can do a lot more with a single tool that has a lot of features in it. We can also integrate with other tools to input data and work on projects.

Pros

  • Great project management tool for our team
  • Automations makes work done quickly
  • Offers multiple views including kanban view one of my most preferred

Cons

  • More designs and templates needed
  • Data export option is missing. Needed file export for local backup

Return on Investment

  • User friendly tool with easy to access dashboard
  • Budget friendly which offers free version also
  • Great investment with low budget

Other Software Used

ClickUp, monday.com