Author Archive: Claire Broadley
Claire Broadley is a technical author and SEO copywriter. She reviews cloud applications and SaaS products for Rated Cloud.
Bitrix 24: Project Management SaaS with Employee Monitoring
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Bitrix24 clearly has a good marketing team. It has its own Wikipedia page, for example, which appears to be curated by a single Wikipedia author, and it has well-populated social media channels. Its online presence is bolstered by many reviews and press mentions, and this is the latest to add to the catalogue.
The company behind [...]
Category: Initial Reviews
Webmon: Real-time Availability Monitoring SaaS
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Webmon is a SaaS that’s designed to give website owners peace of mind. It monitors a range of online services – websites, blogs, cloud applications and more – to make sure everything is up and available, day or night.
If something fails, Webmon automatically notifies a contact person via email and SMS (in some cases – [...]
Category: Initial Reviews
Inkdit: Electronic Signatures in the Cloud
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One of the most obvious hurdles any company faces when moving into the cloud – or making any move away from paper administration – is the problem of getting a signature onto a document. The ideal of the paperless office is hampered by the inherent problems signatures create. It’s difficult to get around this without [...]
Category: Initial Reviews
Toolea: A New Take On Project Management SaaS
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If you’re looking for a project management suite in the cloud, you’ll be spoilt for choice. There are plenty of platforms available, each with their own strengths. Most users will need to try a few different packages before they settle on something that feels right.
Toolea is designed to make project management simpler, using cloud technology [...]
Category: Initial Reviews
Natural HR: Secure Cloud HR Toolkit
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Natural HR is a relatively new SaaS product designed specifically to meet a company’s human resources needs. Since 2010, it has offered businesses the chance to manage staff matters in the cloud.
Cloud-based HR services are particularly useful in the modern world, especially when it comes to staff training and recruitment. More and more companies are [...]
Category: Initial Reviews
SimpleProjectManagement.eu – Cloud Kanban Project Management
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Project management is a task well-suited to cloud software, and we’ve covered a fair few project management tools on Rated Cloud. SimpleProjectManagement.eu is the latest one we’ve encountered, and it’s a little bit different from the others.
The developer says that the SaaS is based on the concept of Kanban boards: to-do lists that are used to [...]
Category: Initial Reviews
Zoolz: Corporate Cloud Backup for Windows
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Zoolz is a cloud backup solution which competes in the same market as services like CrashPlan. It also has some overlap with ZipCloud, a cloud backup provider that we reviewed a few weeks ago. However, Zoolz is designed for large corporations where multiple users (or entire departments) are required to backup and store files in [...]
Category: Initial Reviews
ProjectManager.com – Enterprise Project Management in the Cloud
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A few weeks ago, we posted a blog comparing 5 Cloud Alternatives to Microsoft Project. Inevitably, we coudn’t cover them all in one article. There are lots of competitors in this niche, and ProjectManager.com is perhaps one of the more established in the market.
ProjectManager.com is used by some very high-profile companies, including Volvo, the United [...]
Category: Initial Reviews
ZipCloud: Cloud File Sync and Backup
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ZipCloud initially looks like a file syncing solution (much like Dropbox), but it actually has a slightly different set of features. It sits somewhere between Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive and CrashPlan.
However, there are a few features which concerned me – including a few important details which are not stated clearly enough on the sign-up page.
Let’s [...]
Category: Initial Reviews
Oogwave: Co-ordinate and Collaborate in the Cloud
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The cloud has allowed web-based collaboration to come into its own. Sharing files, sharing ideas, holding ongoing conversations, organising and managing workload: all tasks which are well-suited to an environment which you can access at any time and any place.
The easier it is access your documentation and tasklists, the more organised and your company will [...]
Category: Initial Reviews
