Asana

What is Asana?

Asana is a cloud-based work and project management platform that organizes tasks, projects, goals, and communications in one interface. It supports diverse visual workflows (lists, boards, timelines), enables cross-functional planning, and connects teams through structured task collaboration and goal alignment.

What are the advantages of Asana?

• Scalable work orchestration: Supports use cases like campaign planning, product launches, organizational planning, and onboarding across various departments.
• Rich integrations: Connects with over 200 apps, including Slack, Google Drive, Dropbox, Zoho, Harvest, and more, keeping workflows centralized.
• Automation & AI assistance: Offers workflow rules, task dependencies, and recently introduced “AI teammates” that can build tasks and chat via generative AI.
• User-friendly interface: Clean, customizable layouts with boards, lists, calendars, and timelines that minimize onboarding friction.
• Performance and goal tracking: Includes dashboards, reporting, portfolios, resource management, and proof-of-play style analytics for enterprise performance insight.

What are the general functions of Asana?

• Project & task management: Create tasks and subtasks, set dependencies, assign owners and due dates across multiple views (list, board, calendar).
• Goal linking & portfolio tracking: Connect team-level work to strategic company goals, and monitor progress across initiatives.
• Workflow automation: Use triggers, rules, approvals, and recurring tasks to automate manual processes.
• Document & file collaboration: Attach files, leave comments, tag stakeholders—integrated across taskwork.
• Resource & workload planning: Allocate team effort, manage bandwidth, and understand capacity across projects.
• Reporting & analytics: Dashboards, custom charts, status reporting, and proof-of-play tracking for activity visibility.
• Mobile & remote collaboration: Native apps with task creation and management via web, mobile, or browser extension.