OnePlace Review

Review of OnePlace.com
by nicolelamarco (8,714 pts ) , published Dec 18, 2008
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The OnePlace™ online work management system successfully provides the right venue for the online collaboration concept on the Web. It takes the concept of participation culture to a GTD (Getting Things Done) productivity arena where team members are using the same tools as you are.

CAPABILITIES:

At OnePlace online, team members get to meet and organize in “workplaces” where participants pool information, plan and work as a team to productively achieve a single goal.

As ideas and discussions are shared in multiple live online chats, all the dialogues and documents get collected in OnePlace and end up creating a fully-loaded source of knowledge. Processed documents and files are automatically archived in the team’s conversation threads. These will later serve as tools to bring out the best in project management as well as team and personal productivity.

With OnePlace, teams get managed while each team member’s online work is visible, showing who’s doing what, with whom, for whom and for how long. Live online chats can be accessed for real-time problem solving and sharing of files, lists and notes in a single-demand solution, all in one place.

OnePlace allows tweaking in to ongoing activities via your mobile phone. Its browser-based interface gets you involved while on the go, allowing for teams to stay intact and organized.

Being in OnePlace allows everyone to get involved by not leaving out the client who may be interested as to how his concerns are being managed and handled. Getting early feedbacks and making live time resolutions produces better and quicker results to ensure customer’s maximum satisfaction.

The OnePlace user gets cautioned from overbooking or lagging with commitments. There’s a time tracker to let you know how many hours you have left to meet the appointed deadline or how soon you will be free for others.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

OnePlace is Web-hosted; hence, all you need is your computer, a high speed Internet connection and any one of these three browsers: Mozilla Firefox, Safari 2 or Internet Explorer; the most recommended being Mozilla Firefox. In addition, make sure JavaScript and cookies are turned on in whatever browser you use.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Learning how to use OnePlace is really very easy. There is simplicity in its interface wherein accessing each featured function is quite effortless to follow. To make it a whole lot easier for you, register for their FREE 30-day trial on whatever plan you wish to try out. This will ensure that you and your team will get to be accomplished OnePlace users by the time you get converted into becoming paying clients.

You have three options to choose from when joining in:

  1. Blend in as a new member of an already existing team,
  2. Create your own team, or
  3. Create a personal account.

All three options are available in the 30-day trial. This dry-run allows you to change the type of account you’re using within the 30-day test period. This way, you can have a tryout with both the personal and team features.

Before you start, you can take a guided tour about the different applications just to get oriented. You’ll see that it’s not too different from any desktop software you’re accustomed to.

SECURITY FEATURES:

With OnePlace, there’s no need to worry about the security and privacy of your documents and message threads. OnePlace is hosted at a secure and reliable data center and its SSL feature allows data encryption as well. The use of HTTPS tells us that secure transmittal of data takes place while keeping each customer’s records completely separate from each other. Access is made only through user’s password.

PRICE/SHOPPING:

At http://info.oneplacehome.com/pricing you can find the different prices for each type of plan you may choose; solo personal plans costs as low as $10/ month while Unlimited Team plans costs $500/ month. You can opt for a 12 month prepayment on any plan which gives you a 5% discount off on monthly prices.

With a free trial available and only a click away, you can get on top of it all and get the right results from your team by being at OnePlace. In addition to the paid plans, OnePlace also offers a free personal plan (no paid subscription required) that is fully-featured but limits the number of workplaces you can create. There are many members using OnePlace for free under this plan.