Outlook tasks alternative: features and benefits

When you have been using Ms Outlook for a long time, and you want to switch to another task management product it is important for you to find proper Outlook tasks alternative. What does it mean to find alternative to Outlook tasks? It means to find software which is powerful and simple enough to cover not only all benefits of MS Outlook, but also effective enough to overcome all problems related to this application produced by Microsoft. In order to create and organize Outlook tasks you shouldn’t possess any advanced computer skills – this is indisputably an important benefit, but when you want to share Outlook tasks with your teammates you face a real issue, because Outlook tasks sharing requires you to use Microsoft Exchange Server. In other words there is no built-in method to sync Outlook tasks, contacts and calendars with similar data from other Outlook applications working within the same corporate network with you until you buy and install Microsoft Exchange Server.

Your wish to establish MS Outlook tasks sync to plan and control the working process in your office like it was one task management system (for example to assign Outlook tasks to employees) appears quite complex and expensive arrangement, because besides buying all these personal Outlook licenses and purchasing Microsoft Exchange Server you also need a qualified IT specialist to install and set up all this software. Actually this problem usually becomes a main reason which makes people seeking for Outlook tasks alternative enabling them to share their tasks with teammates for lower costs. Of course you can print Outlook tasks out and post them on office wall, but nevertheless this is not a solution. There are several requirements which Outlook tasks alternative software should support:

• User interface which is better than Outlook has, or at least having the same functionality and easiness.
• When switching to alternative program you surely want to keep working with your current tasks, so alternative program should be able to import Outlook tasks and another essential data.
• It should provide much easier and cheaper way to establish collaboration with teammates.

There is a program which is a real alternative to Outlook tasks management, and it is called VIP Task Manager, let’s consider some of its benefits over Outlook:

• You can customize Outlook tasks with adding multiple task attributes, but you cannot do this for task folders, while VIP Task Manager allows you to customize tasks and task groups with the same easiness.
• There is no feature to archive Outlook tasks (only folders) while VIP Task Manager allows you to archive particular tasks.

• You can keep working with Outlook tasks easily. The process of Outlook tasks loading into VIP Task Manager is extremely easy (there is no need to export Outlook tasks into some intermediate format). Operations of Outlook tasks export and import are performed through one simple option which does all the work itself.
• And the most delicious benefit: VIP Task Manager doesn’t require you to buy any additional modules or servers; everything you need for collaboration is included into the single installation setup (in other words server component is free of charge). It is extremely easy to install this software over your LAN – the whole process may take just a few minutes.