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Looking for a customisabe onine project management app, with database like functionality

  • Project Managament online app with custom fields, with database-type customisability, custom data fields. I'm looking to transfer my homebuilt project management system to a hosted SaaS solution. I need to allocate lots of small tasks between a team of about 20 people. Basecamp or something similar would be an option, but really it's not quite customisable or similar enough to a database for my purposes. Each task have data associated and it would be handy to be able to sum, average and filter results by this data . Perhaps there is an app that allows you to create your own version of basecamp with custom fields and filters and rules. I know the answer is probably PHP or something, but I'd like to manage it myself with little programming knowledge. I used smartsheet for a while but it didn't scale very well. I currently use a custom app that I built a joomla application builder (fabric) which is great, but just not robust enough, and requires too much php knowledge to do more complex things I need. Perhaps there is an online app builder which is cheap and powerful?

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    SharePoint might work for this. In SharePoint you can easily create data collection forms and then view, filter, and summarize the information. Here’s an http://blog.pentalogic.net/2008/10/extend-and-customise-sharepoint-task-lists/ with your own custom fields without any programming. SharePoint lists also easily connect to Access and Excel where you can do additional analysis. The book http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B004KAB43S/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/ walks you through managing a small project using SharePoint. SharePoint 2010 Foundation hosting is pretty cheap too. You might be able to get a small site for about $10 per month.

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pwally

http://basecamphq.com/ is meant to be good. Vendors we have swear by it.

mattoxic

We're currently transitioning away from Basecamp to https://podio.com/. Basecamp turns into a sprawling, unweildy mess with anything that's a "big" project. We do game dev and that means a lot of files, messages, To-Do's etc. What happens is that everything gets spread across the many, many tabs of BaseCamp and it's hard to get a "snapshot" of project progress. The lack of tagging in BaseCamp is also an issue- There's no way to efficiently search for all files tagged "laser" or "unity". Keep in mind this is also a company culture issue- If people aren't using your PM Software to sync their tasks and actions, it quickly turns into a graveyard of outdated To-Do lists.

GilloD

HMS Software's http://www.hmssoftware.ca is pretty flexible in terms of what you're looking for.

empatterson

Try Redmine.

xtine

We usehttp://www.thoughtworks-studios.com/mingle-agile-project-managementand it works great. Very good for customizing tasks and creating a workflow to keep things organized, not so great if you rely on complex reporting features. They offer hosting but it's cheaper to install yourself - if you don't have a server available just use a cloud (http://aws.amazon.com/ does the job cheaply)

sarahnicolesays

You may want to review EPM Live. It is a SaaS based project & work management solution built on SharePoint. You can easily administer the lists to define meta-data, fields, etc for your work items, such as Tasks, Issues, Risks, etc. You can try it out for free if you sign up for a trial at www.epmlive.com. There are online guides and videos to get you up and running quickly.

mmanimtim

This is one of the most common uses for Intuit QuickBase. As a non-programmer, you can build a custom app that exactly matches your needs. (Full disclosure- I work for this group. I won't self link, but a quick google should find it for you.)

Philbo

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