Asana alternative: steer your projects and portfolios from France
Asana excels at coordinating tasks and goals. If you also need workload, budget and portfolio tracking in a French solution, discover Gladys.
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Asana is a benchmark for team coordination: clear task lists, goals, automated rules and a polished interface. For organising a team's day-to-day work, it is an effective tool.
Organisations that run several projects in parallel often have other expectations: tracking everyone's workload, the budget, the progress of a portfolio, and reporting to management. This is where Gladys stands.
Quick comparison
| Criterion | Asana | Gladys |
|---|---|---|
| Main strength | Coordinating tasks and goals | Steering projects and portfolios |
| Project views | List, board, calendar, timeline | Kanban, list, Gantt with dependencies, calendar, mind map, dashboard |
| Workload and time | Depending on the plan | Planned workload per task and per person, Resources view, timesheet |
| Project budget | Not central to the tool | Envelope, expenses, revenue, cost of time spent |
| Reporting | Dashboards | Dashboards, Excel and PDF exports, PowerPoint reports from your templates |
| Vendor and hosting | US vendor | French vendor, hosted in France |
What Gladys adds
Portfolios at the centre
Group your projects by department or programme and track them at a glance: progress, milestones, multi-project Gantt.
Real team workload
Compare planned and actual time per person and per period, and spot overloads before they block projects.
Budget inside the project
Forecast, expenses, revenue and receipts are tracked in the project, with no spreadsheet on the side.
A sovereign solution
Gladys is built and hosted in France.
What about AI?
Gladys does not lock you into an in-house assistant: thanks to the MCP connector, you use the one you prefer (Claude, ChatGPT, Le Chat or Gemini) to query your projects or create tasks. The assistant acts with your permissions, and you decide tool by tool what it can do.
When to choose one or the other
Asana if…
Your main need is coordinating team tasks around shared goals.
Gladys if…
You need to steer a set of projects: schedule, workload, budget, portfolios and reports, in a French solution.
Frequently asked questions
How do we move from Asana to Gladys?
Export your projects to CSV or Excel, adapt them to the Gladys import template, then import them from the projects page.
Will our teams find their way?
Gladys's Kanban and List views follow familiar patterns. The user guide covers every feature step by step.
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