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OnTime 2008 Competitive Comparison

We believe Axosoft's OnTime 2008 provides the highest price to performance value in the industry, and we encourage you to compare it to competing products. The following charts may assist you in evaluating the similarities and differences between OnTime and other leading products.

You may also wish to check out the Why OnTime 2008? page for additional information.

Interface Options

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Windows Interface
A rich client application for the Windows operating system

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Web Interface
An interface accessed via Internet Explorer or Firefox web browsers

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Visual Studio .Net Interface
Windows interface is able to access the database remotely over the Internet

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Installed and Hosted Options
Installs locally on customer's network / computer or can be hosted by the provider

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Remote Server
Windows interface is able to access the database remotely over the Internet

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Features & Functionality

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Project Wiki
Base product includes a wiki for team collaboration

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Item Tracking Separately or Together
Defects, features, and incidents can be tracked together in one item list or in separate lists for each type

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Customer Portal
Includes a separate web interface for customers (any 3rd party), providing limited ability to add defects, features, incidents, etc.

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Customizable Workflow
Project and item-types are governed by a user-defined workflow.

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Source Control Integration
Integrates with popular 3rd-party providers of source control management (SCM)

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Visual Project Dashboard
Provides meaningful charts and graphs all in one place for project managers

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User Dashboard
Provides a user-centric view where user-level data can be viewed and acted upon

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Hierarchy-based
The main navigation is driven by a hierarchical project view that makes it easy to jump from project to project

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Visual Item Grouping
Items lists can be grouped by user-specified settings on the fly

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Search and Filters
Searching and filtering functionality

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Unlimited Public & Private Filters
Offers an unlimited number of filters that can be saved and/or shared

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Unlimited Public & Private Views
Design views to display available information precisely as you wish with filters and sorting applied -- keep these views private or share them.

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Project-level Field Templates
Create an unlimited number of templates for gathering information at the project level

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Unlimited Custom Fields
Create an unlimited number of custom fields used to collect any information you wish

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Item-Level Field Templates
Create an unlimited number of templates for gathering information at the defect, feature, or incident levels

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Custom Hyperlinks Fields
Create custom hyperlink fields that can pass through dynamic data, such as customer name -- makes linking to CRM and other applications very easy

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Restrict Workflow by User Roles
Allows only certain user types to progress an item from one workflow step to the next

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Automatic Email Notifications
The system sends email notification based on specific events, such as an item changing

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Rules-based Alerts
Filters that monitor data and send alerts when items are found meeting user-specified criteria

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Attachments with Preview
Attach images and/or files with automatically generated thumbnails for easy preview

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Customizable, Role-based Security
Ensures only certain users, or groups of users, have access to view, edit, workflow progression, etc.

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Work Log & Time Tracking
Tracks how long users spend working on specific items / projects

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Item-level History
Track and view all changes made to any item (defect, feature, incident)

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Full Audit Trails
Consolidated view of all histories for all items

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Email Conversations
Ability to check POP3 emails, track those emails, and reply within the application

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Email-based Item Generation
Automatically generate new defects, features, and incidents based on incoming POP3 emails

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Windows-integrated Authentication
Supports Windows user authentication for login credentials

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Built-in Authentication System
Tracks user logins internally

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Import Wizard
Full field-mapping interface for bringing in data from an external source

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Free Web Services SDK
Provides users with the ability to programmatically tie the data and certain features in to other applications

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Native Application Backup
Performs database backups without reliance on external tools or systems

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Back-end Technologies

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Optimized for MS SQL Server
Database calls are designed specifically to take advantage of Microsoft SQL technology

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Optimized for MS IIS
Application services are optimized specifically for Microsoft IIS

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SQL Server 2005 Backend
Supports Microsoft SQL Server 2005

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SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server Express
Supports Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and SQL Express, Microsoft's Free database solution

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Other Services

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Free Single-user Edition
Offers a free, unrestricted, full license for 1-user installs

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Free Training
Offers all new customers free, instructor-lead product training courses

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Implementation Services
Offers a full line-up of in-house implementation services both remotely and on-site: installation, configuration, and data migration

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Weekly Video Podcast
Produces a video podcast tutorial-style video on a regular basis for users and administrators

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More About this Comparison

Axosoft believes this data to be accurate based on in-house testing, which was completed on 02/25/2008.

OnTime is much more than a feature list with checkmarks; it's designed to help your team collaborate better than ever before and to ship software on time. Some of the most valuable aspects of our product cannot be quantified on charts like the ones on this page: ease of use, stays out of the way, provides project visibility with truly useful information at a glance, quick team adoption, frees developers from managing the process so they can spend more time focused on great coding, etc.

We encourage you to conduct a full OnTime 2008 trial accompanied by a live product demo.

If you have found any of the information in the above chart to be inaccurate, please notify support@axosoft.com.