I was demonstrating my Basecamp to a business associate and they thoughi it was a good application.
They were discouraged to use it because its reporting wasn’t suitable:

From what I understand Reporting works as the following in Basecamp:

All Projects Reporting:

• Generate Report for Specific Person
• Generate Report for Everyone

Single Project Reporting:

• Generate Report for Specific Person
• Generate Report for Everyone

Why wasn’t it suitable for them?

Scenario: I need to able to see how much time someone has spent on graphics.

My first thought was to just enforce a procedure on the employees to name their logs with what the job with a label [category] eg:

Oct 20 Joe Smith 2.50 [Management] client sign off on contract
Oct 22 Roy Smith 1.0 [Copy-writing] wrote rough draft of biographical info
Oct 24 Andrew Brown 2.50 [Graphics] created buttons for front page
Oct 24 Andrew Brown 2.0 [Graphics] first draft of web design

I think this would be the practical solution to the problem.
At a quick glance you can see how much graphics work was done.

The bummer is you can’t generate a report just for that category, you’d get everything.

My feature request would be to add categories to reporting.

Time categories would be an ideal enhancement to the time recording feature of BC, however, there is a workaround.

1. Set up Private To-do lists, with time tracking enabled, in the categories you want to define.
2. Log time to these To-do items.
3. A report for each To-do can be generated by clicking on the clock icon, then the link to see the time logs for that To-do item. The report can then be tailored to a period and/or a person.

Unfortunately you can’t generate a report for the whole To-do list, just each To-do item.

Thats a really interesting tip. I wouldn’t have thought of that.
I think they’ve decided to use a different PMS.

Go BaseCamp!