I'm currently looking into ways to streamline the management of the R&D done in our studio, and one of the most important aspects that I want to automate is the tracking of time spent in different tasks, in order to replace paper time sheets.
I'm looking for a web-based software that I can host myself (preferably no cloud-based SaaS), with ideally some project management capabilities.
Any ideas ?
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kenneth van cleve
Full disclosure: I work at Replicon, and use its products. Time tracking software is our core business and we offer both SaaS and customer-hosted implementations. The Project & Billing edition of our Web TimeSheet has significant tools for setting up projects and tracking tasks, and you can get pretty granular about that, but the product is not intended to be a full-featured project management app like MS Project (although it’s easy to share data with any app that has an open API). I think it would be worth a few minutes of your time to read more about it. Then if it seems viable to you, sign up for a free trial (which is SaaS-based, for 14 days). It includes sample data, and you can enter you own if you like. You get full support during the trial, including 1:1 with a product expert who can answer your questions. We’ve been around since 1996—1.5 million users in 70 countries.
We’re most likely doing to develop our own in-house solution, but from all the softwares I’ve tested, this was the one that seemed the most relevant to our needs.
adam0718
Team Task Manager works well for us. It is intuitive and all the data is stored on your own PC instead of online. Inexpensive, and a free trial is available on their website - http://www.deskshare.com/team-task-management.aspx
Looks nice, but it’s Windows only, which is a no-go for us. Could interest Windows-based studios though.
richard_85
Unanet (www.unanet.com) is a commercial project tracking software application use by more than 750 project-based organizations.
Carsten Kolve
used JIRA in a few vfx studios, has time tracking, some project planning as well as bug/feature request tracking – quite nice
Some open-source ERP software like project-open seem to have all the needed capabilities, but implementing it throughout the company seems like a huge headache…