In today’s article, we put two recognized project management tools in “confrontation”: Asana Vs. Hive. After all, which will be the best? And why? Does one have characteristics that the other doesn’t?
How to choose a project management tool?
In the complex organizational world, agility to ensure changes and a clear vision of projects and objectives are fundamental for success. Thus, it is normal that there are more and more tools for project managers to be able to keep the whole team (healthy) on the same page and deadlines met.
When it comes to choosing the right tool, project managers, CEOs or COOs have to be concerned with a series of variables, namely:
- Team motivation;
- Ease of implementation and use;
- future objectives, whether the tool follows growth or not;
- costs (monthly, yearly, and per user);
- information security;
- integration with other useful tools;
- and the capacity of analysis.
Addressing all these aspects, and in just 5 minutes of reading you will be able to choose which of the tools will better adapt to your context and which will give your team more clarity. Ready?
So let’s start with na overview:
ASANA | HIVE | |
Price | from €10,99 | from €11,20 |
Free version | Yes | Yes |
Scalable | Yes | No |
Integrations | over 200, namely: Zoom, GitHub, Microsoft, Splunk, Adobe, Okta, Salesforce, Tableau, Slack, Bettercloud, Clockwise, Workplace, IBM app connect, Vimeo, Canva, Figma, Instagantt, Onedrive, HourStack, Youtube, Zylo, Workato. | Activecampaign, Box, Dropbox business, Freshbooks, Freshdesk, Github, Google tools, Harvest, Intercom, Jira, Microsoft office, Pipedrive, SalesForce, Slack, Zapier, Zendesk Suite, Zoom meetings. |
Interface | Kanban style, user friendly | Gantt graphics, user friendly |
The main pros of Asana are:
- features are fully customizable;
- responds to any needed integration, easily adaptable to whichever tool the organization is using;
- features a more interesting and utilitarian design than Hive, which makes the user experience more intuitive and practical;
- allows access to external users
- lets you schedule, automate scheduling, Schedule campaigns, and schedule projects;
- has 12 outstanding features;
- considered the best for customer support;
- easier to use;
- ideal as a low-cost software;
- more reports and possibility to customize reports (including creation of unique metrics);
- more complete.
Forbes quarantees that Asana is one of the best project management tools currently on the market.
As to the other management software, Hive’s benefits are:
- it has 8 outstanding characteristics;
- has task lists, task prioritization and project map;
- logic is suitabke for development and technical problems
In turn, both Asana and Hive have cons, which we’ve listed below.
The main cons attributed to Asana are:
- free plan limited to 15 users;
- in a second phase of use, due to the existance of a series of characteristics, the learning curve is substantial;
It should be noted that Asana is a cloud based solution, which scares some companies, especially traditional companies that prefer software and applications on the server because they believe it is safer.
Today, with Asana’s security levels, this issue no longer arises. Incidentally, one of our arguments is the following; if Google, Vodafone, Deloitte, Uber, Dow Jones, Harvard University, among many others, are Asana customers it is because it is safe. So why is it not for your company?
As for Hive, we consider the following points as cons:
- does not allow access to external users;
- only allows schedulling projects;
- The learing curve is higher, as project management knowledge is required (whereas anyone in Asana can start by creating something as simple as a To-Do List).
After all, Asana or Hive?
Capterra, the world’s largest software review platform, which helps companies (B2B) find the best solutions for their business switched from Hive to Asana and explains why in this video.
Here, on our blog, you will be able to find several cases of companies that use Asana and how this implementation resulted in cost reduction, greater success in achieving goals and analysis capacity, namely Dow Jones or Discovery.
When When analyzing contexts of specific teams and their particular requirements, there are some project management tools that raise questions, namely which one is best for this specific case. However, if you ask us who is the winner of the “battle” between Asana and Hive, the answer is clear: Asana is a better and more “robust” tool.
Looking for help? Talk with our team today – let’s help clarify which tool is the best for your team, context and goals.