There is nothing enterprise about this at all, its just yet another project management portal with a pretty design and a simplistic feature set (the complete opposite of what an enterprise needs).

...And to confirm my thoughts, the linked post basically says in the first paragraph that design is the reason for many problems behind enterprise software....

I think a lot of potential enterprise customers who have to deal with the problems associated with poor enterprise solutions daily would never give you guys a second look after saying something so....unrealistic?

The reality is that most enterprise software I've ever had to work with has had far bigger issues than UX and design, and due to office politics among many other roadblocks, software with these known issues can remain running for years with no fixes, or half assed fixes at best, before a decision is finally made to deal with the situation, and at this point, the cycle repeats itself again.

Do you honestly think that corporations are going to break the cycle and do something different and drastic (such as changing all their workflows to suit your tool for example) just because your stuff looks prettier and easier to use?

When large companies are looking to replace architecture, there is usually a pretty big reason behind it, and many people who need to be sold on the idea for final approval, this isn't going to happen because of anything design related, it will almost certainly be feature or strategy related.

You will find very limited traction going down this path. Enterprise is all about features, workflows, politics and (sometimes but rarely) reducing costs (from a product and man-hours point of view), all I see is a simple project management tool that doesn't address any of this.

The idea of a cloud distributed project management portal arguably makes it non-enterprise automatically (security or privacy policies anyone?) as does the fact that you guys are clearly not an enterprise yourself (although there is little you can do about this, it just puts you at an automatic disadvantage for consideration amongst many large corporations).

How will you guys support a support contract for an enterprise with 1000 users? What about 5000? Hows about 20,000?

My point behind all of this is that, to break the software lifecycle in large corporations in large numbers requires large amounts of money, and many multi-faceted strategies (which require considerable head counts), amongst many other complex considerations.

I suggest you guys have a long and hard think about who your customer really is in enterprise (its not the end user, its middle management) and think about pivoting into something which would ultimately not be as disruptive to an enterprise as a new project management portal (for the 10th time in as many years, as is usually the case) or ditch enterprise altogether, it sounds like you guys have a lot to learn before you can build a product for the enterprise, and there is nothing fun about doing this, trust me!

I do really like what you guys have done so far from a product point of view, the problem is that it totally is not appropriate for enterprise and is a very very long way from being even close, I think you guys should be doing something more like what Yammer are doing with their general business strategy (not targetting enterprises, just businesses, big and small, but mostly small) to have any chance at success, and because of the industry you have chosen (project management) with the added bonus of Yammer as a competitor its going to be tough to gain any traction regardless of business strategy, but you guys should be looking to at least maximise your chances instead of shooting yourselves in the foot. Pivot.

- An ex-enterprise programmer.