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Choices for Collaborative Software

2. Document Sharing: Sync

Sync is a Canadian company that offers file sharing with zero-knowledge privacy.  Unlike Dropbox, Sync will give us the ability to customize file and folder permissions and is substantial less expensive.  It also gives us a vault option, file restoration, change tracking, detailed stats, file versioning and is accessed by both desktop and app.

3. Version Control: Bitbucket

Bitbucket will offer us one place to plan projects, collaborate on code, test and deploy. It has TLS encryption with PFS so we know that we would have the security we need.  We might be able to use JIRA instead of Collabtive in which could save us time and money.  It also costs out cheaper than Github on a cost per person basis.

4. Prototyping: UXPin

This is a design tool that can be used throughout our whole product creation process – prototyping, collaboration, and hand off. They have great design system libraries, but you can also create your own animations and add audio and video, so the prototypes feel like the final product.  It will also integrate with slack.

5/6. Time Tracking/Project Management: Collabtive

This is a super robust, yet simply designed web-based platform software that is an open source solution for both our time tracking needs and project management.  It appears to be a very easy to learn to use and integrates with most popular social media platforms.  I think plugins are an extra bonus and will really help with efficiency:  Gantt charts, mobile web app, project templets and more.

7. Code Testing: Katalon

Katalon is a free licence tool that will supports several kinds of testing types and multiple platforms. I think we will like that it is fully automated and has a very friendly GUI.  It will also integrate with slack and all web browsers which will save time.

8/9. Digital Marketing Analytics/SEO:  Moz

Moz is an affordable, easy to use platform for both DMA and SEO.  It tends to generate just the right amount of detail as to not overwhelm and produces clean great looking reports.  I liked that it can be integrated into the browser as an extension.  It also offers very thorough support and is known for producing accurate and responsible data.  It will save us too from having to look for 2 separate tools.

10. Page Speed Testing: Uptrends

Uptrends offers free webpage performance with very detailed information.  Testing will work in all major browsers and on desktop and mobile.  I liked how it tells you exactly what is slowing you down and gives you actionable tips, and checks your speed from 10 worldwide locations.