![]() ![]() But if you have those goals only live in a spreadsheet, you're not getting the full greatness of setting those goals. I think the prominence and importance of the OKR market has shown that setting goals is important. So if the goal is red, you can drill five layers into the organization three teams over and see where the issue is, and correct it so that your team can get unblocked. With Asana, there's a direct linkage between the underlying work which we've done with you and the goal itself. This approach to implementing the modern management practice of Objectives and Key Results (OKR) provides a direct connection between the goals and the execution, as Hood explains: Asana Goals then connects that execution data back to the top-level goals that the work is designed to support. Goal management is the other enterprise-scale aspect of the Asana offering, built on its enterprise work graph, which collects and analyzes data about work across the organization. ![]() The next big piece is time series reporting, so you can track efficiency and progress over time and across multiple divisions, taken together. So we built robust reporting capability in Asana in the last twelve months, and we're continuing to invest there. It's very difficult if your projects are tracked in a spreadsheet, or a project management application that's a spreadsheet in the back end, to then see how all the work is coming together across teams in one view, without calling a status meeting. Hood comments:Įnterprises tend to have matrix management arrangements. This also comes through in its reporting, which can look at global trends to help identify opportunities to reduce disconnects and logjams across the organization. ![]() Asana sees this ability to span different teams and functions across the enterprise as an important differentiation from other tools. Designed to enable cross-functional processes as well as those that run within a single team or department, it will soon be extended with a library offering pre-built templates that users can then save and customize for their specific needs. The new point-and-click workflow builder is a significant step up from the previous rules-based workflow function, providing visualization of the various steps, including integrations with other applications and insights into performance. It was a lot of work that's gone into this enterprise scalability and security component of Asana, which just means that it's maturing and growing up, as the category is maturing and growing up. Partner integrations for things like data loss prevention, e-discovery, those are the types of tools that five years ago, we weren't focused on in our admin console, because our eyes were more set on smaller teams. Noting that Asana now scales up to 100,000+ users in a single enterprise, Hood comments: Various other partnerships offer additional security, compliance and SaaS management functions, along with platform integrations to IBM App Connect, Salesforce-owned MuleSoft, and Microsoft Power Automate. A new integration with NetSkope enables Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) capabilities to enforce security and data access policies. An Audit Log API offers SIEM integration to Splunk, making it possible to automatically trigger notifications of unusual behavior, such as an employee attempting logins in multiple regions. New security and admin features include enterprise key management, support for SCIM to automate group set-up and sync with Okta (and soon Azure AD), and broadcast announcements. "We're crossing the chasm now into more mainstream," he says, adding:Īs we serve these larger customers, we have to make the kind of announcements that we're making today, that they're able to do it in a way that best supports cross-departmental work, that supports the C-suite and the individual contributor, and does in a way that's safe and secure for the whole team. They're a response to growing demand from large enterprises for tools to help manage work across distributed teams, says Alex Hood, Chief Product Officer at Asana. The new capabilities encompass security, administration, scalability, reporting, improved workflow automation and cross-functional goal tracking. Work management vendor Asana is aiming to appeal directly at the enterprise market with a new raft of announcements today, timed to coincide with the vendor's first event targeted at enterprise buyers. ![]()
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