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A recent roundtable conversation within our company involved some interesting discussion about our internal company software tools. We are a small development company of 10. 6 of which are full time developers with 3 of these full time developers working remotely over a VPN. We are primarily mac users.
We all tend to agree that we have too many tools to that are used to manage the various aspects of the business. We are an open book company so we all have a stake in the game and interact with all these tools in some manner.We have been brainstorming ways to consolidate some of these tools or replace them with better tools.
To give a quick breakdown of what tools we are using along with their primary purpose:
QuickBooks - Accounting
Autotask - Time Tracking, Support Tickets, Contact Management
Basecamp Classic - Internal and External communication/collaboration
WebEx - Meetings planned in advance
Join.me - Ad hoc meetings
Docuwiki - Internal Wiki for company info
Google Docs - Shared spreadsheets
Rumpus FTP Server - Transferring of large files
Subversion - Version control for (primarily) binary files
Slack (Recently adopted to replace AIM/Messages) - internal chat
Internally developed Project Management solution - project estimating and progress tracking
Internally developed Planning solution - planning and scheduling
Italic items indicate services we are subscribed to.
So HN: Do you have any recommendations about these tools or how we can leverage their features better? Any recommendations on alternatives to these tools that could cut costs? More importantly: What tools are everyone using?
