Ideas, insights, and inside looks at how modern teams collaborate, manage work, and scale smarter – with a dash of product updates and stories from the trenches
Vigilant Technologies is a tech company with HQ in Troy, Michigan (USA), and two more offices in Toronto (Canada) and Hyderabad (India). Their core services are implementing and upgrading Oracle applications, performing custom development work, and managing/augmenting clients’ IT departments. They ...
Customer Stories • • 3 min read
Customer story written by Ivana Tomas, Projects and IT process development consultant at InfostudInfostud is responsible for a family of useful websites everyone in Serbia knows about — for everything from finding jobs and student information to automobiles and travel. Their total monthly traffic exceeds ...
Customer Stories • • 2 min read
The new ActiveCollab is very different from the previous one, and our website reflects that. This time we had an underlying philosophy and our lead UX designer tied all the pieces together.Thanks to the Wayback Machine, we traveled back in time to see how our website evolved since 2006 when we published ...
Design • • 3 min read
You can use ActiveCollab in 21 languages! English, German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Polish, Italian, Swedish, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Turkish, Hungarian, Croatian, Slovenian, Serbian, Lithuanian, Romanian.Changing language is easy. Once you're in ActiveCollab ...
Product • • 1 min read
We rebuilt ActiveCollab Project Management Software (codename Feather) to make it more user-friendly.Here’s the technology we used on backend, frontend, our infrastructure and everything else.Front-EndWe use Angular as a basis for Feather front-end. The choice wasn’t random, and we did a lot of experimenting ...
Labs • • 4 min read
Here at R & W Media, a Magento design and development agency, we have a lot of small and large e-Commerce projects, so managing all of them is a mammoth task on its own. However, with ActiveCollab project management is made simple.In the beginning, we were managing projects and everyday tasks through ...
Customer Stories • • 3 min read
Having everyone on the same page is why project collaboration tools are so useful to teams. Because of this, it's very important to decide how people are notified about updates. There are three things to consider when looking for an optimal solution:1. Which events are significant enough to justify the ...
Design • • 4 min read
In broad strokes, the interaction with web and data on the web evolved in three stages. First, there were HTML files (hyper)linking to one another. Then came the tempting age - a user sends a request, web applications processes it and sends out the rendered page based on a template filled with data fetched ...
Labs • • 3 min read
ActiveCollab 4 has several ways of categorizing and organizing tasks: milestones, labels, categories, and up to three custom fields.After milestones were renamed to task lists and promoted to the primary way of task categorization, it was time to think how we can make tracking the extra bits of task ...
Product • • 3 min read
Naming features may seem trivial, but it's definitely not an easy task. Getting the right name is hard but once you name a feature a certain way you end up with something that guides you in the future and affects your development decisions.What we learned is that you should keep the name as generic as ...
Product • • 3 min read
Written by our amazing customer and great friend Aleksandar Cocek from EemagineIt was in my college days when I first heard about ActiveCollab. The time when Internet in Serbia was only a vague term familiar exclusively to a small group of geeks obsessed with RPG games like Elder Scrolls, Warcraft and ...
Customer Stories • • 2 min read
Written by our amazing and loyal customer, iValue from BelgiumMy name is Jacob, I’m a productivity geek. I love tools, apps, and technology to increase efficiency. As a project manager, I have tested many tools on the market. ActiveCollab has withstood many tests and challenges I’ve thrown at it.We’re ...
Customer Stories • • 2 min read