Today, we all have access to data, and growing businesses can’t afford to make decisions on incomplete information and gut-feeling. But data alone isn’t enough – we need a way to turn data into insight. That’s why every business needs a business intelligence tool. But what are business intelligence tools? Business intelligence tools are used to access and analyze sets of data and present findings to provide users with a detailed overview of the state of the business.

From the building of ancient pyramids and industrialization of the 19th century to modern-day developments such as the Gantt chart and Critical Path, project management has always existed in some form. Today, project management has evolved one step further – with improved processes and technology providing more flexibility, more accountability and ultimately, more successful outcomes.

Remote work has become more popular in recent years, with 2020 speeding up the transition drastically. Further, thanks to the emergence of countless digitized platforms and online collaboration tools, it’s now easier than ever to manage a remote team. Working remotely has actually been found to increase productivity by up to 13%, and we can expect remote teams to become more and more common in the near future. Here are some of the reasons remote work gains ground every year.

As a team lead, sharing regular status updates and progress reports with project stakeholders and executives is all in a day’s work. That’s because reporting is an essential part of communicating impact, getting ahead of potential pitfalls, and highlighting wins. The problem is, too many team leads spend too much of their time gathering the facts and figures needed to show where work stands.

At Asana, we’re big fans of reducing work about work—that pesky 60% of our workday that we spend on rote or duplicative tasks. Think of every time you’ve searched a document for a specific data point, spent precious time chasing for the right stakeholder or approver, or sat through a status meeting that could have been a written report. For team leads, reporting on work and sharing progress metrics is just another facet of work about work.

We’re excited to announce that Scoro has been named by G2 as a Leader in no less than six categories this fall. G2 has rapidly evolved to become the world’s most trusted peer-to-peer business solutions review platform, with over 1 million software reviews and rising.

You already know that marketing is crucial to your business. A good marketing function is not only essential for strengthening brand awareness and educating customers–it can also significantly impact your bottom line. In a typical business, marketing contributes a whopping 15-30% of revenue when it comes to net-new customers. So how do you max out on your marketing revenue? How can you get the most out of marketing for your specific business?

When it comes to collaboration, it’s key that every member of your team gets the full picture. This is especially true when it comes to building your software from scratch – manually diagnosing, fixing and optimizing the performance of your code can be made even more challenging by lack of sight over the full project. We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with Sentry, a tool that’s making the mammoth task of optimizing code collaboratively more attainable!