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Sovereignty: 3 of 4 dimensions proven

0–5 in half steps. 5 means the rubric's top anchor is met on the evidence.

by Asana, Inc. · asana.com

Work management platform for teams and enterprises.

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The Integrator

Weighted verdict

Lives in the API docs before the product tour. Optimizes for webhooks, import/export and a tool that plays well in a stack. Rejects closed ecosystems and CSV-only exits.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

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Collaboration depth

How this is scored

How much real multi-person project work the tool carries: shared planning, assignments, dependencies, workload, comments, guest access.

0 — A personal task list; a second user has no defined place in it.

3 — Tasks can be shared and assigned, but planning stays per-person — no shared timeline, workload or dependency view.

5 — Solid shared projects with assignments, comments and at least one team-level planning view; gaps appear in cross-project or capacity planning.

8 — Team-level planning is first-class: cross-project views, workload/capacity, dependencies, guest or client access with sane permissions.

10 — Handles the full span from two freelancers to a structured department in one model — planning, capacity, permissions and client involvement all without workarounds.

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The Integrator

Workload gives a real-time capacity view with drag-and-drop rescheduling and role filtering, Portfolios roll work up across projects, dependencies and milestones are core to the product, and guests are unlimited and free on Starter — that is first-class team-level planning. Capacity still keys off task count with hours and points only announced as coming, and the workload and portfolio views sit behind the Business plan. 2 7 8

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Reporting

How this is scored

Whether the tool can answer questions about the work: progress, time, budgets, utilization — and export the answer.

0 — No reporting beyond looking at the board.

3 — Fixed per-project status views only; nothing aggregates across projects and nothing exports cleanly.

5 — Useful standard reports (progress, tracked time) with basic filters and CSV export, but limited customization and no budget/utilization depth.

8 — Configurable cross-project reporting incl. time, budgets and utilization, with dashboards and reliable exports.

10 — Reporting is a product in itself: custom report builder, scheduled delivery, API access to every metric the UI shows.

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The Integrator

Universal Reporting builds dashboards across projects, teams and departments carrying workload, budget and timing data that update without manual work, backed by a chart template library, a custom chart builder and drill-through to the underlying tasks. Exports run to BI tools like Power BI and Looker Studio plus organization-level export and full-domain export through the API; timesheets and budgets come only as an Enterprise add-on, and we found no public information on scheduled report delivery. 3 2 9 10

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Integrations

How this is scored

How well the tool connects to the rest of the stack: native integrations, calendar/comms hooks, API and webhooks, import/export paths.

0 — A closed box — no API, no integrations, CSV out if anything.

3 — A handful of marquee integrations, no public API or an API that covers a fraction of the product.

5 — The common set (calendar, Slack/Teams, file storage) plus a documented public API; automation platforms partially covered.

8 — Broad native catalogue, well-documented API and webhooks, first-class automation-platform support and real import paths from competitors.

10 — Ecosystem-grade: everything in 8 plus the tool is itself extensible (apps/plugins, AI/MCP surfaces) and exit via API export is complete.

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The Integrator

The API is REST, documented, and free to anyone with an Asana account; the CSV importer pulls real history from Excel, Smartsheet, Wrike, Monday.com, Airtable and Trello including dependencies, followers and custom fields; and exit is clean with export at the organization level and full-domain export automated through the API. I found no public information on webhooks, no automation platform is named, and the 200-plus app catalogue is a count rather than a documented surface, which keeps this a step short of the top anchors. 3 11 12 13

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Onboarding effort

How this is scored

Time and friction from signup to first real value for a small team, without paid services.

0 — No self-serve path — onboarding starts with a sales call and an implementation project.

3 — Self-serve exists but the first project requires configuration a newcomer cannot judge yet (workflows, custom fields, permissions) before anything works.

5 — A team gets a first project running within a day; trial requires payment details or key steps live behind docs.

8 — Signup to working project inside an hour: guided setup, sensible defaults, templates, trial without payment details.

10 — Minutes to value even for non-tool-people, importers pull existing work in, and the tool teaches its own advanced features as the team grows into them.

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The Integrator

Signup runs through Google or Microsoft, the trial asks for no credit card, templates cover campaign, product launch, kanban and intake flows, and the CSV importer brings existing work in with a preview step before committing. The free Academy with fifteen on-demand courses, quizzes and worksheets teaches the deeper features as a team grows into them. 7 13 14 15

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where the company and the data actually sit: legal entity, ownership control, data residency, and subprocessor exposure to non-EU jurisdictions.

0 — Non-European vendor, data on US infrastructure under US law, no DPA worth the name.

3 — DPA and GDPR language present, but hosting defaults to the US or ownership sits outside Europe — compliance paperwork over substance.

5 — EU data residency is available and contractually fixed, but the vendor or its controlling owner is non-European, or core subprocessors put data within CLOUD Act reach.

8 — European company under European control with EU-resident data and a public DPA; remaining exposure is limited to identifiable subprocessors (e.g. a US hyperscaler's EU region) and is documented.

10 — European company, European control, EU-only data residency on European infrastructure, subprocessor list free of extraterritorial reach — verifiable, not asserted.

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The Integrator

Asana is a Delaware-incorporated, San Francisco-headquartered company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and European data residency is an opt-in extra tied to the Enterprise+ tier rather than a default. A data processing agreement is incorporated by reference into the subscriber terms and a subprocessor list exists, but the privacy policy states data is transferred to regions where subprocessors and partners are located, and the region of the default hosting is not stated. 2 5 6

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Support & documentation

How this is scored

Whether a stuck user gets unstuck: docs quality, support channels and their availability per plan, and the health of the learning surface.

0 — No docs beyond marketing pages; support is a contact form that may answer.

3 — Docs exist but are thin or stale; support on entry plans is effectively email-only with slow turnaround.

5 — Searchable help center covering the core product; chat or email support on all plans with reasonable response times.

8 — Deep, current docs incl. onboarding guides and templates; fast chat support not gated to top tiers; visible changelog.

10 — Docs, academy, community and support so good they are a reason to buy; SLAs published, support quality independent of plan.

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The Integrator

The learning surface is genuinely strong: a free Asana Academy with fifteen on-demand courses, quizzes, worksheets and a certificate, a community forum, certifications, and a Stack Overflow channel the vendor monitors for API questions. We found no public information on chat support or response commitments below the Enterprise tier, where 24/7 priority support and a 99.9% uptime commitment live. 3 12 15

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Pricing transparency

How this is scored

Can a buyer determine the real, payable cost of the tool for their team before talking to anyone?

0 — No public pricing at all — every number sits behind "contact sales".

3 — Some tiers are public, but a deciding factor (seat minimums, mandatory add-ons, billing-period surcharge, tax treatment) only surfaces at checkout or in fine print.

5 — Self-serve tiers are publicly priced and the billing-period difference is stated, but the headline number still needs qualifying — e.g. annual-only headline, taxes excluded without saying so, or an opaque enterprise tier doing real work.

8 — Every self-serve tier is fully priced with billing periods and tax treatment plain on the page; only genuinely custom enterprise work lacks a number.

10 — Every tier including enterprise has a public price or published price formula, and the headline number is the number on the invoice.

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The Integrator

Starter at €10.99 and Advanced at €24.99 per user, per month billed annually are printed on the page with the yearly saving stated, and the Personal plan is free forever. The headline numbers still need qualifying: they are annual-billed figures, Enterprise is contact-sales for pricing while carrying data residency, audit logs and the compliance and permissions add-ons, and we found no public information on tax treatment. 2 8

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European sovereignty — proven facts

3 of 4 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

Ownership Publicly listed 1/2 pts 5 Report an error
Data residency EU optional ⚠ unverified 1/3 pts 3 Report an error
Subprocessors Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error

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The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor homepage asana.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 +1 earlier capture: 18 Aug 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Vendor pricing page asana.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 +3 earlier captures: 11 Sep 2026, 11 Sep 2026, 18 Aug 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Trust center asana.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 +1 earlier capture: 18 Aug 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Security page asana.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 +2 earlier captures: 20 Aug 2026, 18 Aug 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Terms of service asana.com Checked 21 Sep 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Privacy policy asana.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Collaboration depth — found from sitemap asana.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Collaboration depth — found from sitemap asana.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Reporting — found from sitemap asana.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Reporting — found from sitemap asana.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Integrations — found from sitemap asana.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Integrations — found from sitemap asana.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  13. 13 Onboarding effort — found from sitemap asana.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  14. 14 Onboarding effort — found from sitemap asana.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  15. 15 Support & documentation — found from sitemap asana.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  16. 16 Support & documentation — found from sitemap asana.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →