I'm looking for a good tool that can effectively be used for project tracking. I started off by using color-coded tables in Excel (gree=on track, red=in danger,..), but that takes a lot of manual work and it's hard to keep things in sync. I moved on to MS Project, but that hasn't worked out to well for me either: it's a great tool, and does a lot of things, but it is also very generic and lacks of all the functionality that I need for tracking my assets and the work done on them. We have started to develop an in-house tool, but I'm afraid that is not the right way to go, as it will involve lot's f maintenance and it will end up costing more then buying an out-of-the-box solution. Any recommendation? What are you guys using for tracking your project?

I'm looking for a good tool that can effectively be used for project tracking. I started off by using color-coded tables in Excel (gree=on track, red=in danger,..), but that takes a lot of manual work and it's hard to keep things in sync. I moved on to MS Project, but that hasn't worked out to well for me either: it's a great tool, and does a lot of things, but it is also very generic and lacks of all the functionality that I need for tracking my assets and the work done on them. We have started to develop an in-house tool, but I'm afraid that is not the right way to go, as it will involve lot's f maintenance and it will end up costing more then buying an out-of-the-box solution. Any recommendation? What are you guys using for tracking your project?

I'm looking for a good tool that can effectively be used for project tracking. I started off by using color-coded tables in Excel (gree=on track, red=in danger,..), but that takes a lot of manual work and it's hard to keep things in sync. I moved on to MS Project, but that hasn't worked out to well for me either: it's a great tool, and does a lot of things, but it is also very generic and lacks of all the functionality that I need for tracking my assets and the work done on them. We have started to develop an in-house tool, but I'm afraid that is not the right way to go, as it will involve lot's f maintenance and it will end up costing more then buying an out-of-the-box solution. Any recommendation? What are you guys using for tracking your project?