23 Best Project Dashboards In Software And Apps For 2025

Parallax is a strategic operations software designed for digital service organizations, focusing on capacity and resource planning. It helps businesses improve utilization, achieve margin goals, and proactively manage resources throughout project lifecycles. 

Why I Picked Parallax: I picked Parallax for its dashboards that cater to resource planning, financial tracking, and forecasting. These features allow teams to gain real-time insights into their capacity and project burn rates, which is crucial for maximizing margins and ensuring projects stay on track financially. The ability to forecast revenue and margin in real time helps project teams make informed decisions, reducing the risk of budget overruns and missed deadlines. Additionally, Parallax's project health tracking provides real-time financial snapshots, allowing for early adjustments to align with client expectations and project goals.

Parallax Standout Features & Integrations

Features include visual capacity planning and a predictive operations intelligence feature that offers critical alerts and informs hiring decisions based on utilization data, optimizing revenue and operational excellence. It also has a project financials feature that provides real-time insights into project profitability, enabling teams to forecast revenue and monitor budgets effectively.

Integrations include Salesforce, HubSpot, Copper, Pipedrive, Zoho, Monday.com, Advantage, Clockify, Harvest, Jira, Kimai, Toggl, Everhour, NetSuite, Noko, Redmine, Replicon, Teamwork, Tempo, Asana, Microsoft Teams, and Slack.

KeyedIn was recognized as an August 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customer Choice for Project and Portfolio Management. Key features include portfolio insights, revenue forecasting, executive oversight, capacity planning, and CRM and ERP integrations.

Why I Picked KeyedIn: KeyedIn is particularly good at striking a balance between being easy-to-use and also feature-rich. When addressing blind spots in the tool’s capabilities, the dynamic customer support team is quick to point out viable alternatives. This scored them very well in Usability per the evaluation criteria.

KeyedIn Standout Features & Integrations

Features include customizable dashboards, project management, resource management, time tracking, collaboration, flexible workflows, reporting & analytics, mobile app, Agile methodologies, project portfolio management, and third-party integrations.

Integrations include Jira, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Dynamics 365, SharePoint, QuickBooks, Microsoft Outlook, Sage Intacct, Salesforce App Cloud, SugarCRM, SAP CRM, Pivotal Tracker, Microsoft Dynamics GP, VersionOne, Fulcrum. Additionally, the software uses API Version 3 that makes it easier for its customers to share or extract project and portfolio data with other business software solutions.

Birdview PSA is a project dashboard software with resource management, project management, financial management, project portfolio planning, time tracking, and collaboration tools. They offer hundreds of integrations, meaning you can pull data from third-party apps and visualize it in Birdview PSA dashboards. They have hundreds of dashboard and report templates, so you don't have to start from scratch.

Why I Picked Birdview PSA: Birdview PSA excels in project dashboards with a strong emphasis on resource management due to its ability to provide a holistic view of resource allocation, availability, and utilization. The platform offers customizable dashboards that allow project managers to track and analyze resource data in real-time, facilitating informed decision-making. With intuitive visualizations and robust reporting capabilities, Birdview PSA empowers stakeholders to easily identify resource bottlenecks, optimize resource allocation, and make data-driven decisions to ensure efficient project execution.

Birdview PSA Standout Features & Integrations

Features include 250+ ready-to-use dashboards and reports for business intelligence, including templates for executive summaries, project scorecards, demand projections, and expected vs actual budgets. I mentioned their resource planning tools above but one particular feature I wanted to highlight is their resource loading simulation tool. You can set up trial projects with available resources and track whether your estimates are accurate before committing to your plan. 

Integrations include Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Project, Jira, Adobe Creative Cloud, MS Excel, Outlook, Hubspot, Salesforce, Oracle NetSuite, Gmail, Slack, Zoom, Github, Gitlab, HelpScout, HelpDocs, Olark, and other options for time tracking, design, ERP, and accounting software. You can also use their RESTful API to build additional integrations. 

Headquartered in Madrid, Spain, ITM Platform is a SaaS portfolio management tool with robust project dashboard capabilities. ITM Platform is hugely customizable and many teams will find the flexibility useful to their objectives. For example, custom fields are easy-to-add and endlessly useful.

Why I Picked ITM Platform: One of the strengths of ITM Platform is its project portfolio management capabilities as they align with individual and team goals. The software provides tools for aligning project goals with overall business strategy and managing multiple projects more effectively. This allows organizations to prioritize projects based on their strategic importance and allocate resources accordingly.

ITM Platform also provides comprehensive resource management features, allowing users to track utilization, resolve conflicts, and optimize resource allocation. Additionally, the software includes a time tracker that enables users to track time spent on tasks and bill clients for time worked.

ITM Platform Standout Features & Integrations

Features include project portfolio management, resource management, time tracking, task management, collaboration, flexible workflows, reporting & analytics, mobile app, Agile methodologies, financial management, and third-party integrations. 

Integrations include Slack, Microsoft Project, Jira, and Teambot. More integration options are available by linking the software to Zapier or using their API that allows you to integrate with third-party tools, like PowerBI or an ERP.

Project Insight is a work and project management software with a complete dashboard tool designed to act as a personalized source of information for you and your team members. The personalized dashboard feature is available as an add-on and will unlock a higher level of collaboration for your projects.

Why I Picked Project Insight: Project Insight's dashboard gives you access to all projects, tasks, and other items assigned to you. Like many other dashboards, you can drag and drop items to rearrange them according to your needs. Additionally, select from 12 different layout options to personalize it even further! One thing I'd like to point out is that Project Insight will aggregate information from the software you integrate into it. Then, it will use that information and your saved projects as a source of data for anything ranging from project management to HR.

Project Insight Standout Features & Integrations

Features include customizable dashboards, project management, resource planning, collaboration, flexible workflows, Agile support, financial management, reporting & analytics, mobile app, time tracking, mobile app, and third-party integrations.

Integrations include Jira, Zendesk, DevOps, and QuickBooks. Additional integrations include Trello, Office 365, Microsoft Project, Gmail, Google Drive, Slack, and Microsoft Teams.

Changepoint was built for purpose project portfolio, services lifecycle, and enterprise architecture management solutions. This tool’s dashboard solutions enable real-time visibility across enterprise resources, projects, capacity, and technology.

Why I Picked Changepoint: Changepoint has a particular standout UX with bright colors, a variety of visualizations, neatly compartmentalized data, an aesthetic workflow, and a general sense of tidiness. Thus, they scored well in the UX section of the evaluation criteria.

One minor con is that knowledge of SQL is highly desirable for the full and easy use of this tool; it can be a bit cumbersome to use overall.

Changepoint Standout Features & Integrations

Features include project portfolio management, resource planning, collaboration, time tracking, financial management, agile support, customizable workflows, reporting & analytics, mobile app, customizable dashboards, custom reports, task management, and third-party integrations 

Changepoint integrates with popular software from big-name apps like Google and Microsoft.

ClickUp is a project management and project dashboard software that offers customizable dashboards with real-time project data. ClickUp's dashboards are made up of widgets, which users can customize with data from project tasks, resources, apps like Google Sheets or Figma, time tracking, and more.

Why I Picked ClickUp: With ClickUp, there are 50+ widget variations you can use from. After trying out a few of them, I can tell you that having interactive widgets like task lists, chat, or ClickUp docs bring collaboration into your dashboards. I remember dashboards used to be these graphs that just displayed information, but with these widgets, you can sort information, edit, and get more overall value from them.

ClickUp Standout Features & Integrations

Features include task scheduling/tracking, project management, resource management, budgeting, contact management, data visualizations, employee database, expense tracking, file sharing, third-party plugins, collaboration support, timesheets, roadmapping, chat, customer management, email integration, feedback management, and process reporting.

Integrations include native integrations with Slack, Google Workspace, Dropbox, and many more tools, as well as over 1,000+ integrations through Zapier (may incur additional costs).

monday.com allows you to allocate & prioritize tasks, use various views to see where everything stands and track multiple projects using project dashboards that provide high-level insights visually and intuitively. Dashboards can be added by clicking on the 'add new' button at the bottom of your workspace menu.

Why I Picked monday: The platform is completely customizable so you will be able to adjust it to your workflow. The platform also provides powerful and customizable notifications and automation so you and your team can focus on what’s important.

Every workspace in monday.com can have its dashboard and it is widget-based. Once you open your dashboard you can start adding widgets and connecting them to specific boards. The last step is to arrange your elements. Drag items by clicking on the top left of a widget. Adjust the size by dragging from the bottom-right corner.

monday Standout Features & Integrations

Features include project management, task scheduling/tracking, resource management, scheduling, budgeting, API, calendar management, Gantt charts, file sharing, time management, email integration, third-party plugins, and notifications.

Integrations include project management apps like Slack, Google Drive, Gmail, Google Calendar, Jira, GitHub, Trello, Dropbox, Typeform, and many more accessible via Zapier. 

Smartsheet is a spreadsheet-like project management software. The tool is fully featured and ready to scale up to an enterprise level. It’s a nice tool to use if you’re used to Excel but want a break from complicated formulas. Their dashboards will provide you with real-time data and display it on a widget-based dashboard view.

Why I Picked Smartsheet: In addition, those widgets allow you to build customized dashboards. You can easily edit and restructure as needed for different projects. Simply go to the builder, select widgets and connect them to your projects. To create this dashboard, head to the navigation menu, click on the dotted matrix and select 'solution centre'. Then, select the 'create dashboard/portal option'.

Smartsheet Standout Features & Integrations

Features include project management, task scheduling/tracking, calendar management, timesheets, time management, expense tracking, file sharing, Gantt charts, budgeting, email integration, and lead management.

Integrations include Microsoft and Google apps, as well as development essentials like Jira, and useful business apps like Salesforce, ServiceNow, Slack, Box, and Tableau. The platform is extensible through a REST API and web hooks.

Celoxis is web-based software for managing projects, resources, project reporting, project health and issues, risks, timesheets, workflows, and collaboration. The project dashboard layout is fully customizable, and has a limit of 10 reports per dashboard. The breakdown is six personal reports and four metric ones. Why? Performance declines after that number, so they limited the amount.

Why I Picked Celoxis: Celoxis' project dashboards offer real-time data and insights on projects, resources, and financials. Also, some reports can be filtered from within the dashboard to display ad-hoc information. Celoxis offers solid pre-built dashboards that you can work from or customize, as well as the option to create dashboards from scratch. You will find the iconography useful to identify if you are adding a bar chart, histogram, line chart, and other types of graphs.

Celoxis Key Features & Integrations

Features include project management, task management, resource planning, time tracking, budgeting & costs, reporting, customizable dashboards, collaboration, and third-party integrations. 

Integrations include 400 applications easily, including Microsoft Project, Excel, Google Drive, Outlook, Salesforce, JIRA, Slack, and Trello. A paid plan via Zapier will unlock even more connection options.