Method Grid

Method Grid

Method Apps Limited
Zavanta

Zavanta

COMPROSE
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About

Method Grid is an AI-empowered knowledge and project management platform that helps teams improve how they deliver projects and services by connecting knowledge, experience and technology. Teams can collaborate and build knowledge-rich playbooks that define how to deliver individual projects and services by leveraging their global expertise, knowledge and insights. Bring projects to life by creating playbooks that can be customised and tailored for each client, making it easy to highlight your organisation’s capability and expertise in a way that resonates with their specific needs and challenges. Method Grid is the platform for consulting organisations looking for a capability partner to assist them in building world-class scalable services. Services that foster trust, exceed expectations and manifest as authentic intellectual property, which encapsulates the collective knowledge and experiences of your people.

About

Need a better way to capture policies, SOPs, and work instructions and make them accessible to your workforce? Zavanta is web-based system for building clear, easy-to-update policies and procedures, online portals, and manuals people WANT to use! Clear communication is essential for improved workforce performance and compliance. Other tools simply manage documents or pair MS-Word with workflow, so you are on your own as far as the content itself goes. Zavanta combines structured, standardized authoring with powerful content management. Zavanta’s specialty is high-quality, easy-to-update content. Even a novice can create user-friendly content in HALF the time of MS Word-based methods (really, our customers have timed it!). General-purpose tools (MS-Word, Wikis, Excel) are cumbersome and lack the controls needed to ensure authors avoid common mistakes and prevent variation between writers. Conventional documents don’t work on mobile devices.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Businesses of all sizes

Audience

Companies and organizations of all sizes interested in a more effective method for creating and managing policies and standard operating procedures and making them available to their employees

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

£16 per person per month
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

No information available.
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 4.8 / 5
ease 4.9 / 5
features 4.6 / 5
design 4.7 / 5
support 4.8 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 4.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 3.0 / 5
design 4.0 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Integration with Miro provides access to robust diagramming tools, generous free plans allows unlimited team boards.
  • Method Grid allows us to map anything our team does. Very simple grid system. Highly flexible. It allows to display documents, external links, videos, checklist, images and cloud documents. Easy, quick and fast to pickup. Organises memorialize and project data and process steps. User friendly. Intuitive tool.
  • This is absolutely an amazing tool to manage your projects with your organization. Our business project management has significantly improved and makes everything much easier. The great thing about Method Grid is that you can provide updates and comments to your team members. It offers great customization features that many will enjoy.
  • Method Grid is an intuitive way to store knowledge for easy retrieval by other members of our team. It is totally configurable to fit your processes and set up a taxonomy that works for your business. Colleagues find it much easier to find the current, approved information they need than storing in a network or cloud drive due to the structural design being consistent with our processes. The software is constantly being enhanced with new features and the team is highly responsive to suggestions for improvements. It's now possible to clone grids and have checklists in them. We use this as an on-boarding tool to make sure everyone goes through a consistent set of information to ensure everyone is using the same processes.
  • Intuitive interface and simple structure actually make this a surprisingly powerful and flexible tool for managing many aspects of a professional services business IP.

Cons

  • Lack of advanced whiteboarding features compared to complex tools, No Gantt charts or calendar views for project planning.
  • No dislikes. Great software to share and capture knowledge.
  • At first it can take quite some time for your business to find all the great functions this software has to offer. Once you have learned everything, the whole process is so simple and very helpful.
  • It's free-form nature, whilst giving massive flexibility, means you need to spend some time to plan out a structure. We started a bit too ad-hoc and needed to restructure how we store data. I would recommend creating a steering team (any proper implementation should have one!).
  • We were an early user and new features have continuously been added.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • This software allows for publishing of documents to end users while minimizing the risks of common issues in my enterprise. We shouldn't have to worry about end users accidentally altering the documents, or performing edits poorly, or messing up the formatting and sending it back to us to fix it later, or multiple versions of the same document diverging from each other. It will mitigate a lot of issues we have seen.

Cons

  • When authoring a document, there are some areas where the functionality could use some improvement. There are many strange little bugs that add up to consuming enough of my time that I feel compelled to write this review in hopes that someone from Zavanta sees it, cares, and does something to improve the platform. 1. There is no clear means to paste text from, say, a Word document without carrying over formatting. So, if I want to keep everything in the default font I have in Zavanta, and I don't want to type everything from scratch, then I have to paste it in whatever format it is in the source document, and then re-dress the font and font size in Zavanta. 2. When I go to change font and font size in Zavanta, a bug frequently occurs: I select all the text in a text box, then I go up to the font dropdown box to change the font. When I click the font dropdown, it un-selects all the text I had selected for reformatting, so now any new font I select doesn't apply to any text. I typically have to attempt to select the text and then click the font dropdown anywhere from as few as 3 to as many as over 20 times before it randomly works properly. Rarely ever does it work in one try, if ever. Except a few lucky sessions where it worked every time. I have yet to see any rhyme or reason to this. I have tried it in Google Chrome and Microsoft Internet Explorer. 3. In cases where some important operating words are in bold or underlined for emphasis, and I need to change the font or font size, in addition to the problem above, Zavanta will only change the font for the characters from the beginning of the line of text to the point where the bolding or underlining state changes. I'll have to repeat the process of repeatedly highlighting the text that wasn't reformatted and chasing the font dropdown again for each state of bold or underline, etc. in the line of text. 4. The above combination of three issues have a bad synergy, and the overall effect of making simple tasks take much longer, and more frustrating than they should ever be. 5. Table formatting is problematic to the extent that my team has decided the best way to do tables, is to import an image of the table from MS Word. Any time a piece of information in the table needs to change, the table needs to be re-worked in MS Word, a new image made and imported into Zavanta. The table feature in Zavanta does not seem to allow for more complex tables, where one row may have one column that serves as a heading for the next several rows, which may have three columns; followed by another row with one column that serves as a heading for the next set. (Here's where we run into problems) If the next set of rows needs four columns, we can't do this without throwing off the section with three columns above. 6. The process of importing an image into Zavanta has some issues. There is a feature to copy/paste an image from the clipboard, that I have never seen work. So when I need to import a table, the easiest way to do this that I know of would be to take a screen shot in a program like OneNote. Then copy/paste that image from OneNote into Zavanta. Well, I click the button to copy/paste from the clipboard, and it doesn't work at all in Internet Explorer, and in Chrome it tells me there isn't an image in the clipboard. So then I open MS Paint, and I paste the image into Paint and save it to my desktop. Then I copy the file and go to paste it into Zavanta as an image, and it does the same thing. However, I can drag and drop this file in, so it works this way. it just seems to require several unnecessary steps to get an image imported, which I wouldn't need to do anyways if the table editor in Zavanta were more functional.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Method Apps Limited
Founded: 2018
United Kingdom
methodgrid.com/

Company Information

COMPROSE
Founded: 1987
United States
www.comprose.com/zavanta-software.html

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Categories

Categories

Business Process Management Features

Access Controls / Permissions
Alerts / Notifications
Business Process Automation
Business Rules Management
Collaboration
Process Change Tracking
Process Mapping
Process Modeling & Design
Visual Workflow Management

Kanban Features

Collaboration Tools
Dependency Tracking
KPI Monitoring
Milestone Tracking
Multi-Board
Prioritization
Project Planning
Roadmapping
Supports Scrum
Task Management
Time Tracking

Knowledge Management Features

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Cataloging / Categorization
Collaboration
Content Management
Decision Tree
Discussion Boards
Full Text Search
Knowledge Base Management
Self Service Portal

Onboarding Features

Course Management
Document Management
E-Verify / I-9 Forms
Electronic Forms
Electronic Signature
Employee Handbook
Employee Portal
File Management
Job Description Management
Orientation Management
Self Service Portal
Task Management
Tax Forms
Training Management

Project Management Features

Agile Methodologies
Budget Management
Client Portal
Collaboration Tools
Cost-to-Completion Tracking
Customizable Templates
Gantt Charts
Idea Management
Kanban Board
Milestone Tracking
Portfolio Management
Resource Management
Time & Expense Tracking
Traditional Methodologies

Project Planning Features

Agile Methodologies
Budget Management
Collaboration Tools
Due Date Tracking
Gantt Charts
Kanban Board
Prioritization
Progress Tracking
Resource Management
Task Management
Template Management
Traditional Methodologies

Project Tracking Features

Collaboration Tools
Cost-to-Completion Tracking
Gantt Charts
Kanban Board
Milestone Tracking
Percent-Complete Tracking
Prioritization
Status Tracking
Time & Expense Tracking

Scrum Features

Backlog Management
Collaboration Board
Daily Reports
Iteration Management
KPI Monitoring
Milestone Tracking
Prioritization
Progress Tracking
Release Planning
Roadmapping
Sprint Planning
Task Management

Task Management Features

Collaboration
Create Subtasks
Gamification
Gantt Charts
Mobile Access
Percent-Complete Tracking
Progress Tracking
Recurring Tasks
Reporting/Analytics
Spreadsheet View
Task Board View
Task Planning
Task Scheduling
Task Tracking
Time Tracking
To-Do List View

Business Process Management Features

Access Controls / Permissions
Alerts / Notifications
Business Process Automation
Business Rules Management
Collaboration
Process Change Tracking
Process Mapping
Process Modeling & Design
Visual Workflow Management

Policy Management Features

Approval Process Control
Attestation
Audit Trails
Policy Creation
Policy Library
Policy Metadata Management
Policy Training
Reporting / Analytics
Version Control
Workflow Management

Integrations

Dropbox
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft OneDrive
Microsoft Teams
Okta
Slack

Integrations

Dropbox
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft OneDrive
Microsoft Teams
Okta
Slack
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