Worklenz is a clean project management tool — boards, tasks, time tracking. BrioSync starts there and adds a full client service desk, SLAs, CMDB, and live margin tracking. One workspace instead of three.
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Worklenz is purpose-built for project management. BrioSync extends that core with the agency-side workflows Worklenz doesn't ship.
| Feature | BrioSync | Worklenz |
|---|---|---|
| Project delivery | ||
| Projects, tasks, Kanban, Gantt | ✓ | ✓ |
| Time tracking on tasks | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom stages & workflows | ✓ | ✓ |
| Approvals workflow | ✓ | – |
| Client service desk | ||
| Customer ticket portal | ✓ | – |
| 5 ticket types (incident, change, problem, request, question) | ✓ | – |
| Resolution & first-response SLAs | ✓ | – |
| Knowledge base & service catalog | ✓ | – |
| CMDB (configuration mgmt) | ✓ | – |
| Canned responses & on-call rotations | ✓ | – |
| Margin & financial tracking | ||
| Per-resource cost & bill rates | ✓ | – |
| Approved vs actual effort leakage flag | ✓ | – |
| Per-client live margin reporting | ✓ | – |
| Multi-currency support | ✓ | – |
| Capacity & HR | ||
| Team utilization & capacity view | ✓ | ✓ |
| Leave management | ✓ | ✓ |
| Onboarding / H2R lifecycle | ✓ | – |
| Pricing model | ||
| Customer-portal users free | ✓ | N/A |
| 14-day free trial, no CC | ✓ | ✓ |
When the project ships, the work doesn't end — clients raise bugs, request changes, ask questions. Worklenz has no surface for that. You'd have to bolt on Freshdesk, Zendesk, or Jira Service Management — and now you're paying twice and reconciling tickets-vs-tasks by hand.
BrioSync ships a full ITSM-style service desk inside the same workspace: five ticket types, SLAs per priority, a customer portal where your clients raise and track tickets, a knowledge base, and CMDB to map every client's systems. Same login, same data.
Worklenz tracks time. BrioSync tracks time × cost rate vs bill rate, the moment hours are logged. If a project crosses its approved budget, you get a flag the same day — not at month-end after the over-spend has already happened.
Per-resource cost and bill rates work across full-time and freelance, multi-currency. Effort leakage is shown in your reporting currency, live, on the dashboard.
Most services teams running Worklenz also pay for a helpdesk (Freshdesk / Zendesk / Jira SM) plus a margin spreadsheet in Excel. Three tools, three logins, three data exports to reconcile when leadership asks "what's the actual margin on Acme?"
BrioSync replaces all three with one workspace. The ticket your client raised, the hours your engineer logged on it, the margin impact on the client account — all stitched, all visible, all live.