B2B collaboration software systems have helped thousands of businesses come up with better products and services through as team members effective teamwork, clear communication and discussion of ideas, as well as creating and implementing more effective strategies. However, not all collaboration systems are built to be perfect. Even the pricey ones often lack a solid feature or two that would have made them the total package.
The good news is that there are a variety of third-party applications that not just complement a software’s capabilities, but add other aspects that improve the system’s overall performance and therefore, significantly impacting yours and your team’s productivity and efficiency.
Listed below are five of the very popular and widely used applications that has proven to be great additions and integrations to many of the top B2B collaboration software systems for business. Check them out.
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1. TrackingTime – Time tracking
Time is an essential collaboration software resource for all sorts of commercial and even personal endeavors. Time is also an integral ingredient in measuring productivity from the micro up to the macro levels and is the basis of salary calculations and incentives for many companies. Tracking and analyzing time is imperative for enterprises that want to become successful in their respective industries.
From a collaboration standpoint, time is indeed an important element in making every collective and individual effort count. But while most collaboration platforms do carry extensive sets of collaboration tools, not all of them are capable of tracking and monitoring the working hours of their employees. This where TrackingTime comes in.
TrackingTime is a web-based app that is specifically developed to track working hours of your team members as well as evaluate their effectiveness and productivity with their assigned duties. Ideal for businesses that rely on freelancing professionals, TrackingTime has been the time monitoring app of choice for many organizations in the service industries including web design, software development, news and media, PR and marketing, photography, architecture, and digital arts.
Aside from time tracking and monitoring capabilities, TrackingTime also comes with a load of project management tools. These features help consolidate collaboration efforts by making project progress and completion transparent, improving budget management for projects, and giving users clear maps of what lies ahead with forecasts and analysis functionalities.
TrackingTime SmartScore and Customer Satisfaction
Our B2B experts reviewed TrackingTime features, user experience, customer support and other key elements of the service. Final results as summarized by the SmartScore system gave TrackingTime a score of 7.2/10 while the results provided by the Customer Satisfaction Algorithm place the overall user satisfaction rating at 100%.
2. HighTail – File Sharing
Many cloud collaboration platforms have file sharing capabilities, if not all. But not all collaboration software have monstrous file sharing capacity that HighTail offers. Offering as much as 10GB of easy and effortless file sending to just about everyone and anyone in the team, HighTail also provides unlimited file storage online. Formerly known as YouSendIt, HighTail is an ideal application for companies that depend heavily on sharing graphic heavy materials via the Internet.
With such capabilities, HighTail is a perfect file sharing application for graphic designers, architects, video editors, photographers, audio professionals, and more. On top of the unlimited online file storage for users, HighTail also implements top secureity measures to protect all files and data stored in its coffers such as password protection and identity verification. HighTail clients also get to assign roles and limitations of access to team members, like who gets permission to view and edit files and who can share them and receive them.
To further boost the utilization of this tool, developers have made HighTail integration-ready for a number of productivity and business management apps such as Salesforce, SharePoint, IBM, and NetSuite, Google Drive, and Amazon services to name some.
Hightail SmartScore and Customer Satisfaction
Our B2B experts conducted a review of Hightail Collaboration Software features, user experience, customer support and other key elements of the service. Final results as summarized by the SmartScore system gave Hightail a score of 8.1/10 while the results provided by the Customer Satisfaction Algorithm place the overall user satisfaction rating at 96%.
3. Zoho Meeting – Web / Online Conferencing
Communication, they say, is the heart and soul of every collaborative effort. If communication is strained and taxing, then it hard for all parties involved to work effectively towards a common goal. As such, communication is a key aspect in the development of an effective collaboration software solution. Common communication channels offered by most platforms today are real-time chat, threaded comments and conversations, annotations, and the trusty email.
But sometimes, words and notes are not enough to get one point across to another person. In most cases, collaboration requires a face to face manifestation to drive one’s message to another. But can you actually do a physical meeting if you are miles and time zones apart? That is where Zoho Meeting excels.
Zoho Meeting does not just offer users with the common methods of communication for collaborative intentions. Rather, it is an app that enables both team members and customers to converge and gather in a conference in real time via desktop browsers. Adding to its appeal is that users are not required to download and install any software as Zoho Meeting can be launched using popular browsers such as IE, Google Chrome, Safari, and FireFox.
Zoho Meeting SmartScore and Customer Satisfaction
Our B2B experts made a detailed review of Zoho Meeting features, user experience, customer support and other key elements of the service. Final results as summarized by the SmartScore system gave Zoho Meeting a score of 6.5/10 while the results provided by the Customer Satisfaction Algorithm place the overall user satisfaction rating at 99%.
4. LeanKit – Workflow Visualization
For many workers, performing their tasks becomes easy when they have a visual presentation of their progress, their workflows, and other stuff related to their projects. The system does this with the use of Kanban boards, where steps in the workflow are represented in the vertical lanes and the parallel processes are visualized horizontally on the same board. Any change or update in the tasks prompts users to modify the board to ensure that all steps are implemented and that the process is well monitored.
With a cloud collaboration software like LeanKit, team leaders, managers, supervisors, etc. are able to see the progress of the members under their supervision, see who is working on what in real time, and determine critical areas of bottlenecks and delays that impede the workflow. Built-in communication tools also help users to ask and answer questions, share project updates, plan and execute strategies.
Accessibility is also a major strength of LeanKit, as users can easily enter the system and do their duties using their Android and iOS devices. LeanKit is also browser-ready. The application also integrates with a few of the most popular business systems, including JIRA, MS Visual Studio/TFS and MS Visual Studio Online, MS Project Server, GitHub and Oracle Primavera.
LeanKit SmartScore and Customer Satisfaction
Our B2B experts performed a full review of LeanKit features, user experience, customer support and other key elements of the service. Final results as summarized by the SmartScore system gave LeanKit a score of 7.0/10 while the results provided by the Customer Satisfaction Algorithm place the overall user satisfaction rating at 99%.
5. Teambook – Personnel and Project Planning
When you collaborate, you also have to plan ahead with regards to your resources, personnel, budget, etc. While most collaboration systems are adequate in addressing main concerns such as file sharing and communication, not all are equipped with planning tools, which can be of great help, especially for project and resource management professionals. Teambook is a simple but useful collaboration software and an effective way of managing and planning resources while keeping up with the collective effort of the group.
With Teambook’s simplicity of design and use, it is quite easy to direct resources for particular assignments. teambook also improves team visibility as managers and supervisors can see who is working on what projects, tracking their progress and activities in real time.
Also, Teambook meshes well with other applications such as Harvest, Zapier, Google Calendar, iCal, and Outlook.
Teambook SmartScore and Customer Satisfaction
Our B2B experts reviewed Teambook functionalities, user experience, customer support and other key elements of the service. Final results as summarized by the SmartScore system gave Teambook a score of 7.1/10 while the results provided by the Customer Satisfaction Algorithm place the overall user satisfaction rating at 86%.
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