10 Best Project Dashboards In Software And Apps For 2022

monday.com allows you to allocate & prioritize tasks, use various views in order to see where everything stands, and track multiple projects using project dashboards that provide high-level insights in a visual and intuitive way. 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.

Dashboards can be added by clicking on the ‘add new’ button at the bottom of your workspace menu. 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.

Note: They recently added the option to add apps to your dashboards. These can be social feeds, whiteboards, and other cool stuff.

monday.com’s integrations include project management apps like Slack, Google Drive, Gmail, Google Calendar, Jira, GitHub, Trello, Dropbox, Typeform and many more, accessible via Zapier.

monday.com costs from $8/user/month and comes with a free 14-day trial. They offer a free plan for up to 2 users.

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.

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’.

Note: By default, only the admin and owner can edit the dashboard.

Smartsheet 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.

Smartsheet paid plans start at $7/user/month and offer a 30-day free trial. Dashboards are available starting at the Pro level.

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.

The 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 has available integrations with over 400 apps, including Google Drive, Salesforce, Slack, Trello, and Mailchimp. Plus over a thousand integrations through Zapier.

Celoxis offers a 30-day free trial, and paid plans start at $25/user/month with a minimum of 5 users.

Hive is a robust tool for project management, collaboration, and flexible task coordination. It lets users organize projects in a Gantt chart, Kanban board, table, or calendar and easily switch between each layout. Its dashboard is now called ‘workspace overview’ and includes an overview, overdue actions, actions due timeframe, and actions completed timeframe section.

The Hive dashboard provides an overview of progress across all projects, and lets users create project custom fields. If you feel like sharing your dashboard, you can export it to a .csv or PDF file. Project dashboards can be sorted by current status, team member, or assigned labels for a birds-eye-view of progress and milestones.

Note: The tool displays additional filters on the right panel if you wish to drill into data.

Hive integrates with Google Drive, Salesforce, Jira, Dropbox, Slack, Zoom, One Drive, Box, and more than one thousand other tools through Zapier. It also imports tasks from tools including Asana, Trello, Basecamp, Smartsheet, and a few others.

Hive has a free forever version, and paid plans start at $12/user/month with a 14-day free trial.

Created in 2002, ProWorkflow was designed as a project management solution that supports internal workflow and communication needs. When you log in to this tool, you immediately see a dashboard showing details on your current and future tasks and projects. This dashboard lives in the homepage section of the software.

The ProWorkflow dashboard color codes your information to help you prioritize your work. Additionally, it is a readable, aesthetically-pleasing spot to get the lowdown on data like tracked time, quotes and invoices, recent actions, and recent logins. Overdue projects and tasks will show in red at the top of the dashboard page, so time-sensitive material remains front and center.

ProWorkflow integrates with tools like Xero, Quickbooks, KashFlow, FreshBooks, MYOB AccountRight, Box Storage, DropBox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, and hundreds more through Zapier.

ProWorkflow’s paid plans start at $20/user/month and offer a 14-day free trial.

Deltek is a software company that develops products to support project-based organizations. Their project dashboards live within a product called wInsight Analytics, which is responsible for showing metrics to assess project performance. The display of information can be a bit overwhelming, so it requires you to be okay with large amounts of data.

Having said that, if handling loads of information is your passion, this will definitely inform your decisions and let you identify trends and issues in the data. Deltek’s major advantage is how robust it is as a major open-source platform, which opens avenues for accounting, deliverable tracking, change management, resource allocation, time and scheduling, and CRM.

Deltek has built integrations with Google products, Microsoft Suite, calendar apps, Jira, Okta, Salesforce, and many more.

Deltek Project & Portfolio Management offers pricing upon request and has a free trial.

Project Insight is a work & 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.

The tool’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 integrates with applications like Jira, Zendesk, DevOps, and QuickBooks. Additional integrations include Trello, Office 365, Microsoft Project, Gmail, Google Drive, Slack, and Microsoft Teams.

Project Insight has a free version for startups and small teams. Add-ons will cost you $3/user/month each, and your plan will upgrade to Enterprise after purchasing 12 add-ons.

Started by a Portfolio Management consultant with years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies, Acuity PPM is about “software with services” (as they call it) with a lightweight project dashboard that even non-tech folks can get behind. The tool offers project and portfolio tracking, analytics and reporting, and project status report.

Acuity PPM is great for data visualization across your portfolio. Thanks to their RAG rating scale, you can see how your different projects measure against strategic goals. Also, it can display portfolio risk, information on your resources, and all other information stored within your projects. Great information for leadership to make decisions that protect the portfolio’s value and company investments.

Additional features include project prioritization, risk-value bubble charts, status reports, roadmaps, work intake for new proposals, and resource management.

Acuity PPM integrates with Jira, Smartsheet, monday.com, Asana, Tableau, Trello, Wrike, and more.

Acuity PPM starts at $599/month and offers a free trial.

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.

This software 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.

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

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 costs $24/user/month and has a free demo.

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.

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.

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.

One negative aspect of this software is that the ability to construct and run custom reports could use some fine-tuning and is a bit clunky as it stands now.

KeyedIn offers pricing upon request and has a free trial.