Orchestrate is a new management platform built for service and maintenance companies that allows businesses to collaboratively create and use schedules, projects, and tasks. While similar SaaS solutions have existed for some time, Orchestrate tries to separate itself from the pack by offering location-specific tasks. This distinction makes it ideal for service companies that frequently have to visit different locations on a regular basis.
Each employee can have their own profile, which includes their contact information, qualifications, and a list of their upcoming events and active projects. There are also group-oriented calendars which can be viewed by multiple employees. The interface is clean (if a bit spartan), and is easy to set up without any prior experience using other SaaS offerings.
Orchestrate offers five different types of accounts, including a free option (which supports two projects and up to five users), Small (5 projects and unlimited users for $19/month), and Max, which offers unlimited projects and users for $200/month. The higher tiers also offer secure SSL encryption, which makes them more appealing to larger companies where security is a concern.
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Our mobile product S0eet is similar to Orchestrate in that is a SaaS task commander, except ours is different. I can’t wait to release this.
It’s like Orchestrate 10 years from now today. If that makes any sense. It’s so far beyond what’s available today it makes me giddy to see what the competition is doing.
Good luck Orchestrate.
shut the fuck up, this is like the 500th TC post where I have seen you pitch this soeet of yours. If you cant wait to release it, relese it already. considering you are very often the first one commenting on TC posts, I think read TC is all you do, and live in your fools paradise. you are all hat and no cattle.
not to mention that all you hav to show for it is a blog post with a pho shopped image with iphone. pathetic
It was really fun doing the design work for the marketing site of Orchestrate. I think it’s a great app and it’s really needed in the services/maintenance industry.
Great work Ryan. I read that you were working on it on Twitter a few times. I assume it is Rails? The product has a great name which is super rare these days.
Yes, it’s Ruby on Rails.
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We built ours like a video game.
This is typical british tech angle though. It looks like a slightly modified BaseCamp with slightly less features and a lot of graphic design.
We went REALLY heavy on interesting features, and high tech-id mission impossible-ness style features.
Good luck again
Put up or Shut up, eh?
You sound like the government,
“We’re working really hard”
“Prove it”
“Uhh… We can’t show you…”
“What? Why not?”
“For err… Security Reasons! yeah!”
B.S. yo
If anybody’s interested, here is the real deal.
http://www.basecamphq.com/
Our organization manager is so radically advanced and different, that I will welcome it being visited side by side when our release comes.
BTW, I used to use basecamp all the time when I ran an outsourcing business which exclusively did VC projects. I don’t miss those days. That totally sucked. VC contracted programming == sweatshop.
I don’t understand how basecamp is relevant and who are you talking to? The article is about Oracstrate not you. Add value. Don’t pump your vaporware.
How exactly are Americans are deceptive?
beware, you are very fast becoming the location spammer guy. only he atleast has sometimes interesting comments and also buys a lot of domains at least. you do neither.
GOOD LUCK to you
I think this is a brilliant system for fine-grained planning of qualified staff/contractors for tasks.
We’re (Mocra) very happy to have helped Andy and the Orchestrate management develop Orchestrate. Its been one of our favourite client projects and it will be an winner with businesses.
Seeing as I too worked on the project I’m a bit biased. Still, fact is that OrchestrateApp fills a real need in it’s main target industry, and it does it really well. It was great working on a project like that!
Wow, all contractors that built this application have converged on this thread. I retract my comments.
I suspect a lot of threads are that way, except that Americans are more deceptive.
At any rate, nice graphics. Excellent graphics. Man those graphics are nice.
I have no clue what you guys are talking about, but I think the app concept is awesome. I have been in property management for over 25 years and have been working on a team who is developing something similar, but for another industry. Who is this product targeted towards? Where are you getting the customers from? Who thought of the concept and what industry is it targeted at?
Thanks,
Linda
Orchestrate is targeted at any organisation seeking to schedule qualified staff to perform tasks at their client’s locations.
The concept arose following my analysis of the problems of a friend’s business where they were struggling to schedule their engineers efficiently.
Initially we designed Orchestrate with the Facilities Management and Health and Safety industries in mind; but it has the flexibility to cater to other sectors. It is particularly well suited to organisations who have responsibility for public safety where an engineer on the ground is held to account for procedure.
At last!! Someone that realise that typical porject management tools doesn’t fit the needs of a lot of industries… We’ll i have a litle cleaning company in Spain so be sure i’ll give THAT solution a good try. But My first concern is the price scheme… I find it too expensive. In the cleaning industry one “project” is a “workcenter” of a customer (each workcenter. Each of those “projects” could represent an income to the cleaning company as low as 100$/month, with a 3-4% gross margin at best. So, if you work with little offices or residential, a tool like orchestrate is not affordable, unless you have a big company. Mmm… as a solution… i suggest to swicht to a per-employee charge, around 2-3$ per employee per month. Anyway, thank you for thinking about us.
Emmm.. tried it. Not so fun for me… A lot of work is still needed to be useful for me. And there are some non-sense limitations. Only an example. Setting an starting time in a task, you have to choose between 08:00, 09:00, 10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 01:00, 02:00, 03:00 or 04:00 why you can’t choose 19:40 ?? Oh! and email required for all the employees?? well, i’ll create a Gmail account for each one… and i’ll use them, cause half of my people don’t know how to use a computer…
I appreciate your feedback regarding Orchestrate’s functionality; we aim to respond quickly to feature suggestions & improvements.
The limitations you have highlighted are ones we are aware of, and plan to address in upcoming releases.
Andy, thanks for your answer! Seeing what was your initial market, I think the product adapts pretty well. Other situations, like mine, ask for a more featured solution. But, as I said, you are the firsts I know giving steps in the right direction, so I’ll keep an eye on your site and tell about it to other fellow members of the cleaning industry.
Thanks. I think there’s plenty of room for other offerings in this space.
I’m a little perplexed as to why so many project management apps seem to be clones of Basecamp.
Saas is the future, but still too expensive…
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