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Asana vs Microsoft Teams comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.6
Organizations improved productivity and saved time with Asana, but ROI varied when combined with other tools.
Sentiment score
5.8
Microsoft Teams enhances remote work by saving time, boosting collaboration, and reducing travel costs, proving a valuable investment.
However, due to its pricing, I need to be careful about adding each user and feature.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.1
Asana's support is generally praised but receives mixed reviews for responsiveness, community resources, and technical support effectiveness.
Sentiment score
6.2
Users experience varied Microsoft Teams support, with differences in responsiveness and effectiveness based on support tier purchased.
The technical support is of high quality.
Microsoft support is excellent, offering instantaneous assistance through either robo support or live personnel.
We have cases where it took more than six months to resolve very basic issues.
I have logged tickets for Office 365 and received responses within 24 hours, depending on the severity.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.9
Asana is scalable for small to medium teams, but challenges and costs arise with larger implementations and complex projects.
Sentiment score
7.7
Microsoft Teams is praised for its scalability and seamless integration, supporting small to large organizations effectively despite occasional challenges.
Microsoft Teams is a scalable solution.
Microsoft Teams is scalable, and I have successfully conducted sessions with close to forty people without significant issues.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
Asana is considered reliable with few issues, though occasional outages occur; users appreciate its real-time status updates.
Sentiment score
7.5
Microsoft Teams is stable, with few bug reports; issues usually stem from internet connectivity rather than the app itself.
Asana is quite stable; it is a tool I can trust.
I appreciate the ability of Microsoft Teams to control the quality of the call.
Microsoft Teams is stable once the setup is completed properly.
For stability in Microsoft Teams, I would rate it a five.
 

Room For Improvement

Asana users seek improved usability, better integration, enhanced features, and scalability to address interface and workflow challenges.
Microsoft Teams users seek better usability, integration, performance, customization, and security to address issues like resource usage and slow performance.
It would be easier if I could assign tasks directly from my email without needing to open Asana.
It would be beneficial to have a native option for Asana to create tickets so we could move away from our main ticketing tool.
AI capabilities should be integrated into Microsoft Teams to provide better transcript services and offer multiple language support.
The biggest issue with Microsoft Teams is switching identities, especially when communicating with external organizations.
Microsoft Teams could be improved through more synchronization with other platforms like Calendly and Gmail.
 

Setup Cost

Asana's pricing offers free and paid tiers with enhanced features, perceived as competitively priced against rivals like Microsoft Project.
Microsoft Teams offers competitive pricing, often bundled with Microsoft 365, featuring discounts for government, educational sectors, and a free trial.
To add one user is expensive, which makes me cautious about upgrading or adding more users.
Microsoft Teams is economical when purchased as part of an Office 365 bundle.
Microsoft Teams comes with Office 365 licenses like E3, but there are options for those who prefer not to pay for Teams by using alternative products like Slack.
Regarding the license, the Microsoft 365 license I am taking is quite expensive, and every year it goes higher.
 

Valuable Features

Asana offers intuitive task tracking, customizable templates, and multiple views for efficient project management with robust collaboration and integrations.
Microsoft Teams enhances productivity with integration, superior communication, easy file sharing, robust collaboration tools, and intuitive user interface.
Asana's automation allows me to automate deadlines and send notifications to the right people about approaching deadlines.
The easy way to get all the analytics at the end of the month or year is the most important feature, and that's why we are still with Asana.
Teams offers the ability to record sessions and store them in OneDrive, which provides 1 terabyte of space.
The platform is user-friendly and has positively impacted our communication, allowing us to communicate with people from different countries and cities in real time.
The biggest advantage of Microsoft Teams is that it is a combined package where I can do chat, video conferencing, work on spreadsheets, documents, and other things with many people sitting at my desk, which makes work easy, especially with clients who are in remote locations, so it saves a lot of time.
 

Categories and Ranking

Asana
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
49
Ranking in other categories
Project Management Software (4th)
Microsoft Teams
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
172
Ranking in other categories
Virtual Meetings (3rd), Enterprise Social Software (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

Asana and Microsoft Teams aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Asana is designed for Project Management Software and holds a mindshare of 4.9%, down 8.3% compared to last year.
Microsoft Teams, on the other hand, focuses on Virtual Meetings, holds 3.5% mindshare, up 3.0% since last year.
Project Management Software Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Asana4.9%
monday.com for Enterprise7.9%
Jira7.5%
Other79.7%
Project Management Software
Virtual Meetings Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Microsoft Teams3.5%
Zoom Workplace Business15.0%
Webex13.1%
Other68.4%
Virtual Meetings
 

Featured Reviews

Carlos Alas - PeerSpot reviewer
Efficient workflows and real-time updates boost productivity
What I appreciate about Asana is the easy way to get the data we need for the reports because we are moving all our tickets. We are making a copy from our main ticket system to Asana because our main ticket system is not giving us what we are looking for, so we need to process everything in Asana. We get the dashboard and analytical reports, so we can have a summary of what has been done in which department we are working with or helping. We can see how many requests for each department we are having. The easy way to get all the analytics at the end of the month or year is the most important feature, and that's why we are still with Asana. The benefits I see with Asana are the main tools because of the integration this tool has. For example, we are making tickets but receiving requests through email, and we have the integration with Outlook and Google. We have the add-ins, so we are making the ticket on our main system while replying to the mail, and simultaneously taking this mail to complete our ticket for our Asana project. The time we are investing through departments with Asana is valuable because we are receiving requests or updates for projects without investing time in meetings or writing emails. Because of the integration we have, we just create a project and everyone with specific tasks moves on their tasks, and we receive the updates. We created a bot that gives us updates automatically. Asana provides automation because we receive these updates the moment they happen without anyone needing to tell us they completed tasks or moved on to others. Asana's cloud deployment has been beneficial for our remote or hybrid team operations. If someone is onsite and someone is working from home, everyone can work on the same project through automation. The person from home doesn't need to be on an infinite call with management or coworkers. They can work in real time, and once someone completes a prerequisite task from home, the people onsite will know it and get the green flag to continue their assigned tasks. It has benefits for anyone, including personal uses.
Anna Virtsan - PeerSpot reviewer
Have streamlined daily workflow and task management but still face inconvenience from recent interface changes and limited integration options
There are challenges and issues in Microsoft Teams, such as after recent updates where group chats were combined with Teams, chats, and groups into one. Users have to work with settings to make it normal again so Teams are separated from chats, and that was a really inconvenient update. Many users ask me to help make it back again to separate Teams and groups from one-to-one chats. That's probably the worst update they've made recently. Additionally, there are some minor features, such as when I work with messages, I don't have an actual forward or quote option when replying to someone's message. I need to be careful not to miss the quote sign. For a lot of people, they are confused about where the quotes option is. I've received a couple of hundred support tickets just regarding this issue. The function to share email to Teams chat doesn't work sometimes due to our compliance policies, and sometimes it would be nice to be able to forward an email to the group chat and have further discussions. Microsoft Teams could improve by being less glitchy because it glitches a lot, leading to undelivered emails and undelivered messages. It would be beneficial if the MS application Shifts, which adds functionality to groups, could be integrated into the groups calendar. Currently, many teams don't use the app because it is not integrated with the general calendar or the Outlook calendar, making it basically a useless application. The platform needs less Copilot and more people. The general Copilot integration into the platform is less glitchy, but Microsoft Teams is quite heavy and glitchy sometimes. Stability depends a lot on compliance restrictions, policies, and quality of internet. Sometimes, when updates are enrolling, the platform glitches, breaks, or shuts down.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Healthcare Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
23%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Educational Organization
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business38
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business64
Midsize Enterprise43
Large Enterprise67
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Asana?
The solution's user interface is very good.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Asana?
The pricing of Asana is slightly high. To add one user is expensive, which makes me cautious about upgrading or adding more users.
What needs improvement with Asana?
The capacity planning in Asana is working pretty decently, but there are some opportunities there for sorting, such as determining which project has the highest resources, as their sorting doesn't ...
What do you like most about Microsoft Teams?
The most valuable feature of Microsoft Teams for us is the ability to share files from OneDrive seamlessly.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Teams?
Regarding the license, the Microsoft 365 license I am taking is quite expensive, and every year it goes higher. The solution is expensive for Microsoft Teams as well.
What needs improvement with Microsoft Teams?
There are challenges and issues in Microsoft Teams, such as after recent updates where group chats were combined with Teams, chats, and groups into one. Users have to work with settings to make it ...
 

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