What is Asana?

Managing projects across teams both large and small isn’t easy. It can sometimes get complex and is often inefficient.  Fortunatly, there are time management tools such as Asana. 

Asana is a web and mobile application designed to help teams track their work. It was founded in 2008 by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and ex-engineer Justin Rosenstein, who both worked on improving the productivity of employees at Facebook. Asana is a cloud-based project and task management solution that enables companies and NGOs to manage and organize tasks and projects, communicate and collaborate. It is helpful for teams and companies that handle multiple projects at one time, and it can serve organizations of any size.

Features include task management, reporting, automatic notifications, a customer portal, collaboration tools, dashboards, a mobile application, document management and task assigning. Asana can be accessed through mobile devices such as laptops, tablets and smartphones. Important to know is that Asana is free for up to 15 users. Beyond that, the price band is based on the number of users a company has. Asana can be integrated with various applications such as DropBox, Sunrise, HipChat, Slack, Box and Google Drive.

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