What is a Hive?
Hive is a productivity platform that can be used by businesses of all sizes and in different industries. Hive’s key features include:
Project management
Time management
Collaboration in teams
Automation
More than 1000 integrations
Robust search functionality
Hive can serve the needs of many types of organizations, including agencies, educational institutions, startups, and other verticals such as marketing, operations, and project management.
How is the Hive used?
Hive can be used for many project management functions including communication, transparency and visualization, organization, monitoring, file share, and task management.
Communication
Project management teams must use a variety communication tools. Slack, Skype and Google Chat are some of the most popular. This is problematic because users will need to switch between tools, which can be time-consuming. Hive’s suite of communication tools makes it a hub for central communication. Hive’s native chat and email integrations allow users to communicate seamlessly.
Transparency
Teams face a challenge in transparency about the project’s moving parts. Hive allows users to have flexible project views and tag features to keep everyone informed. Users can then receive notifications about milestones and processes as well as updates regarding upcoming projects.
Organization
Complex projects can be broken down into multiple tasks, making it difficult to manage. Hive software is a great tool for organizations facing organizational challenges. Hive software allows managers to organize tasks and assign attributes to each task, such as dates, assignees and budget. Hive’s multiple views allow users to easily visualize their projects.
Visualization
Hive makes project visualization easy with its many project layouts. You can easily switch between Gantt chart, calendar and table views by choosing Hive. All updates are visible across all project views, so the entire team is kept informed.

Monitoring
Hive dashboards provide actionable insights about the productivity of a team. It uses existing data and matches it with machine learning to help users spot inefficiencies in their work. It not only sends out real-time notifications about team performance anomalies but also makes suggestions for improving productivity.

Hive Cons
Consider the following factors when deciding whether to use Hive for project management.
Limited Mobile Functionality
Users say the Hive mobile app does not respond as well as the desktop version. Users also feel that the app is not as easy to use, so they prefer to use it more.
Navigation for Users
Many users have reported that Hive can be difficult to use and takes some time to get used to. Some functions are difficult to learn and understand, such as configuring and personalizing software.
Task dependencies
Users reported that they were unable to create dependent task. Hive claims it can automate workflows but users cannot create dependencies that recur in projects. It does not have a sub-actions feature. This may make it difficult for project managers to manually create tasks.
Notifications
Hive’s notifications are not sent to an inbox like other software. Instead, they appear as a popup. These notifications are located in the top right corner and users can’t mark them as read. However, Hive’s focus mode allows users to muffle notifications.
Hive Pros
Hive has many advantages, despite its drawbacks.
Comprehensive Features
Hive’s features, which combine the best of several management solutions, are praised by many users. Hive’s tools allow users to collaborate and communicate with each other, so they don’t need to switch between different tools to complete their tasks.