# What makes Asana different from other project management and work management tools?

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- Posted at: 5 months ago
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## Comments
### Comment 1

Thank you for asking. Asana is a work management platform built on a proprietary data model called the Work Graph, which maps the relationships between goals, projects, tasks, teams, and workflows across an entire organization. Unlike traditional project management tools that focus on individual projects in isolation, Asana connects work at every level — from company-wide strategic objectives to day-to-day tasks — so teams can see how their work contributes to broader goals.

Key differentiators include:

Cross-functional visibility: Teams across marketing, product, operations, IT, and more can collaborate in a single platform with shared context, reducing silos and duplicated work.

Multihoming: A single task can live in multiple projects simultaneously, giving cross-functional teams shared visibility and a single source of truth. Any updates to the task — comments, attachments, due dates, or status changes — are reflected everywhere it lives, eliminating duplicated work and ensuring consistency across workflows (https://asana.com/guide/help/tasks/fields#gl-multi-home).

Multiple project views: Work can be viewed as lists, boards, timelines, calendars, or Gantt charts, adapting to how different teams prefer to work.

Workflow automation: Rules-based automation and AI-powered Smart Workflows streamline recurring processes without requiring code.

Goal alignment: Asana Goals connects OKRs and strategic objectives directly to the projects and tasks that deliver them, with automatic real-time progress tracking (https://asana.com/product/goals).
Enterprise-grade security: SAML, SCIM, audit logs, data loss prevention, cross-regional backups, and admin controls meet the requirements of large organizations (https://asana.com/enterprise).



Asana is consistently recognized as a leader in G2&#39;s Project Management, Work Management, Workflow Management, and Project Collaboration categories, earning a 4.68/5 average rating from over 1,200 user reviews (https://www.g2.com/products/asana/discuss).


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- Posted at: 5 months ago
- Author title: Analyst Relations at Asana 




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