SOPlanning

Use of SOPlanning in scheduleing activities

Comments: I'm using the Open source version running on a company's server.
This software is really easy to configure, intiuitive to use even by not skilled people.
I'm planning and scheduling out of company activities of a group of 10 installers/technicians with need of frequent changes in schedule.
SOPlanning alllows me to see at a glance daily availability of people and to book them with very few steps.
I'm not using all features, but unlike other products, SOPlanning allow me to plan on a daily base instead of putting durations in hours, and that's what I really needed.
All people can login and see their and colleague's work schedules, and, in case I know can limit visibility
I'm proficency using SOplanning this way for 2 years and during this period I've experienced 2 or 3 software upgrades that corrected errors and introduced new features, index that the SOplanning developement group is active and gives good support.
In general I'm happy with SOPlanning and I will be in trouble if I couldn't use it

Pros:

This software is really easy to configure, intiuitive to use even by not skilled people. I use and like very much the dual view People and Project Planning, and the really easy way to switch between them. I like the daily view and the view at a glance of people availability for each day.

Cons:

The fact that the same activity for multiple resorces is not treated as one activitiy when changing schedule. The missing of the vertical scrolling of the plan area ( menu and captions goes out of screen when you have lot of "rows" and you want to see the lower.

SOPlanning - The best organizer with the perfect simplicity

Comments: The experience has been satisfactory. Currently, the work team has been able to organize all projects and tasks easily. The gantt chart display makes it easy for the user to organize tasks based on goals, milestones and execution times.

Pros:

The simplicity to implement and the ease of organizing and visualizing project tasks. Your colleagues do not need training to use the software.

Cons:

In general, it achieves all the requirements that our team needed. Probably having a friendlier interface (for example having drag and drop functions) would make it even easier to use.

Good tool

Pros:

The easy to use, the support is really efficient

Cons:

some bugs on frequency schedule but it's not really bad

We choose this software from more then 50+ different software and programs.

Comments: Mangers from different locations can see in one place the status of all tasks from different departments.

Pros:

The best thing is this program shows all necessary information at one screen. You do not need to open another window or tab in the browser to see all tasks assign to each user. It's super easy and convenience.

Cons:

There is no option to customize calendar. I would like to have a possibility to change the color of the days of the week for holidays, week ends, user holidays, etc. Also will be nice to create a task on the weekends as well.

Good s/w for the project management

Comments: We use SoPlanning for tracking our Social Media posts and it suits very well. It show the whole picture for time period like week, month, etc and also you can see the particular SM message on the same screen. It also has export options in PDF and Excel for creating report for management.

Pros:

This s/w is simple and straight forward in using. It's very easy customize, no maintenance except upgrading, very stable. We use it already for 6 years and had no any problems with it.

Cons:

This s/w suits 100 % for our needs and we do not have any dislikes.

My group have 20 members and hundreds short projects every year and we can easily manage Day-by-Day

Pros:

Easy of use and stability. All of my colleague can insert their request in the planning and I can authorise them without mail needance.

Cons:

It cannot be used from iPhone/iPad easily and there isn't automation to have the planing transferred to my agenda. Editing isn't working on mobiles.

SOPlanning Review

Pros:

We like the flexibility, by adding different nature of tasks and filter into it

Cons:

We regret the poor design that deserve the visibility

Difficult to use

Pros:

Speed of use Improved functionality in MOVE, COPY, DELETE, CREATION

Cons:

errors during compilation in some browsers.

Enables efficient project planning and management

Pros:

SOPlanning significantly increases our team efficiency during project management by helping optimization of the project resources.

Cons:

Task management related features of SOPlanning should be improved with more advance features.

Simple, strong orientation on day by day usability. Ramp up is done within one day. Recommondation!

Comments: I got a quick overview of my team and their shift work - as team is virtual, we had major advantage using this tool.

Pros:

Simplicity and focus on what is needed. As a web application is simple to use for virtual teams. Set up is simple and reduce on market standards.

Cons:

Somehow on handling it's worth to think about improvement. User Management is quite good, but needs getting used to.

Super Application

Pros:

We can make anything with the code of the application.We can developp many plugin to be able to work.

Cons:

The design of the application become more and more obvious in time.

Perfect planning overview, fast, scalable, easy to use

Comments: Happy customers

Pros:

-Genius overview of resources/projects -Easy to manipulate -Web platform based on php (open source) -Can be used for more than 100 users

Cons:

-Export of data is not very good implemented -Mobile experience

A good view of the availability of our team

Comments: Organisation for the the team's holidays, formations, on call period are really easy

Pros:

Very visual and graphic program: current actions such as selection of filters by time period and project or users are really easy and quick to handle. The resulting screen display is simple and clear

Cons:

Better CSV export would help in extracting the selected info: for example when filtering on several user or project for a time period, It would be great to export the detailed information (the matching lines) in a csv

SOPlanning - Plain and not so simple

Comments: The website invites users to signup for a free account but really its a trial period as the trial period expires after 30 days or so.

Pros:

Easy to use in some aspects but not so easy in some others

Cons:

Some of the setup isn't very straight forward or intuitive. The user interface could be more appealing a bit more modern.

my opinion

Pros:

Usefull to know all the planning of all the people in your team

Cons:

Not easy to change just one days on the planning

Absolutely required to manage a team schedule !

Pros:

Create a task for a team or multiple users. Autocompletion are very simple to use.

Cons:

Some customization option is missing for users. for example the display at startup.

well done

Pros:

easy to use, relatively intuitive , well design, responsive, accesible with mobile, free to use !

Cons:

there isn't team coloration, but that's a minor issue !

SoPlanning - What can be inprouved

Pros:

° Simple to use ° Simple to configure ° Simple to manage

Cons:

° Some little bug but often corrected quickly ° Need more statistics ° need more export type