Archive for August, 2006

ePortfolioTrack Project Management Software

ePortfolioTrack Enterprise and standalone modules provide web-based program and project information management and tracking for your team, department, business unit or global enterprise.

Benefits of ePortfolioTrack:

  • Multi-Project Tracking

ePortfolioTrack delivers a comprehensive view of your organization’s portfolio of projects in one easy to access location. No longer will miscellaneous pieces of critical data be scattered across various locations - ePortfolioTrack allows you to store all important information in a single database accessible from anywhere.

  • Reduce Costs

As a result of ePortfolioTrack’s real-time reporting features, you’ll no longer need to rely on your administrative staff to prepare and compile reports. Also eliminated is the last-minute rush to have reports ready for deadlines… real-time reporting means that accurate, up to the minute information is available instantaneously.

  • Real-Time “Alerts”

ePortfolioTrack’s real-time alert system helps you stay in touch with your portfolio of projects. Critical notifications can be sent to an email address of your choosing (including mobile devices, such as email-enabled wireless phones) based on criteria you specify, including budget status, project progress, milestones, and deadlines.

  • Customized Design

Your ePortfolioTrack installation will be based on the ePortfolioTrack Enterprise engine. You’ll work with a team of programmers who will assist you in selecting the appropriate modules for your business, as well as completing any necessary customizations to the system. Following the installation of the system, an ePortfolioTrack specialist will work with your organization to develop any custom reporting or notification features.

  • Rapid Startup

ePortfolioTrack RAD (Rapid Application Development) environment allows us to customize and deploy ePortfolioTrack much faster than conventional software applications. Additionally, ePortfolioTrack’s web browser based interface means little or no training time is necessary to acquaint new users with the system.

  • Modular Approach

ePortfolioTrack is built on a modular foundation, which allows new components to be added and removed as needed. No longer are you tied to a software package with fixed capabilities - ePortfolioTrack grows with you.

Special algorithms can be designed so that management can view and rank projects by their value to the company. The system also compares the ranking of a new proposed project with those already in the portfolio. In some cases, a newly proposed project could result in a suspension or complete elimination of projects with lower priority.

ePortfolioTrack is fully customizable, meaning that custom modules can also be developed for the software if required.

Visit ePortfolio for further details.

eProject Project Management Software

eProject’s project management tools provide the first and only on demand Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) software platform that is bringing record ROI and productivity gains to companies worldwide.

eProject was founded in the summer of 1997 as the innovator of the online project management model. With the vision of offering organizations increased efficiency and higher project ROI by providing them with high-quality project management tools, eProject created next-generation digital workspaces through online project management software where executives, project managers and project teams could effectively collaborate to drive project success.

As first-to-market with a web based project management software platform, eProject has redefined how project software can be deployed: no longer just for IT and governance, eProject is used today by hundreds of companies to increase efficiency across their entire enterprise.

Project managers must overcome the daily obstacles that arise throughout the project management life cycle. With the innovative features of eProject’s web based project management online software, project leaders can execute online projects with ease and precision.

Project managers set business strategy in motion through effective project management. eProject empowers project managers with advanced project and portfolio management software so that high-level business strategy gets transformed into real-world results.

Empower your executives, project managers and project teams with eProject’s advanced, web-based PPM features:

  • Task Assignments for Accountability
  • Interactive Gantt Charting
  • Best Practice Automation
  • Measure Project ROI
  • Collaborate with Vendors & Partners
  • Collaborative Online Workspaces
  • Customizable Dashboards

Visit eProject for futher details.

e-Project Tracker Project Management Software

E-Project Tracker is designed for businesses. It allows clients to manage an unlimited number of projects within an organization. Moreover, it offers a high level of flexibility when managing users, who have different access rights depending on the project. Access rights range from the basic read-only to the comprehensive full control level.

E-Project Tracker even extend this flexibility to projects: each project can have an individual structure and management style. For example, each project manager can organize his/her projects along his/her preferences, defining assigned users, task groups, task types, statuses, and priorities.

Projects can be copied or transformed into templates to be reused later. This includes tasks, file attachment and the basic project structure, a major time saver when creating projects.

The heart of E-Project Tracker is task management. E-Project Tracker have invested their energies in facilitating the consultation and modification of tasks within a project.

At first glance, you will be able to see all incomplete tasks within a project, providing an excellent overview. Completed tasks are displayed in a separate window to make task management easier. Use filters to perform a quick search and isolate certain tasks. Several reports are available to single out tasks on the basis of specific parameters, such as dates or keywords.

If you are curious as to how the E-Project project management software works, the website allows you to sign up for a free 30-day trial with no credit card authentication required.

Visit Project Tracker for further details.

ExpertProject Project Management Software

ExpertProject.com is an online project management application developed by Ambientware, Inc. With it’s robust feature set, unparalleled easy-to-use interface and proprietary ASP.NET engine it is one of the top online PM applications available today.

The objective of ExpertProject is quite simple - to facilitate efficient task management

on a project-by-project basis.

All projects created with ExpertProject are broken down into individual tasks. Each task will be given a priority, assignee, deadline as well as a budget. After this initial setup, project managers can track the progress of the project as tasks are updated with ExpertProject’s powerful Dashboard feature.

One of the most practical uses of ExpertProject is the ability to share and manage project files in one place. In addition to being able to upload more than one file at a time, you can also attach comments to each file to make sure other project members know the details of each file. There is a check-in/check-out system available that helps with version control when multiple people need to edit a document. As with project tasks, all file uploads will send out an “email notification” so others can download the new file directly from their email program.

Another useful feature of ExpertProject is the ability to send and receive project-related messages. Each message can be “copied” to the recipient’s email address for quick retrieval. The main benefit of this messaging component is not to completely replace standard email use but to, at the very least, help minimize offline project email management.

Visit ExpertProject.com for further details.

Expesite Project Management Software

Expesite is a dynamic, user friendly, web based project management software tool that provides program management and project management for a variety of industries, specializing in real-estate development and remodelling for multi-unit rollouts.

Easy to use, easy to implement, easy to work with. That’s what Expesite is all about. They work hard to save their clients money while taking weeks off each project management timeline.

Expesite are known for their exceptional client satisfaction program, intuitive interface, comprehensive training, and knowledgeable & service-oriented team. They provide their clients with the top project management technology available today.

Expesite’s proven and secure Web-based system streamlines communication and simplifies and improves project delivery. Expesite’s collaborative environment ensures that complicated and decentralized projects can be managed more efficiently, saving both time and money on each project.

Expesite is built with the clients’ needs in mind, and they continually enhance or develop new features to address the clients’ changing needs. Expesite always maintains an easy to use interface that accelerates the learning curve on the system so users can start benefiting from Expesite faster.

Expesite is a flexible and scalable module-based system that allows users to choose how to best utilize the system for their organization.

Templates and reporting are customizable for:

  • Document management and collaboration
  • Online or Offline Site investigation/due diligence/feasibility
  • Project scheduling
  • Program reporting
  • Construction RFI’s
  • Cost tracking
  • Site Tracking
  • Living Archive

Visit Expesite for further details.

Extreme Planner Project Management Software

Instead of forcing businesses to “sign off” on poorly understood requirements 6 months or a year before the software will be delivered, an agile project planning approach

encourages small frequent releases.

ExtremePlanner empowers you and your team to build software that your users actually want.

ExtremePlanner helps software teams collaborate better by tracking features (stories), development tasks, test cases and more in an easy to use Web-based interface.

ExtremePlanner supports popular agile methods including Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP). But you won’t find any Gantt charts, resource leveling, or dependency graphs in ExtremePlanner.

Instead of forcing business stakeholders (the customer) to define every detail, agile planning says that they can plan incrementally, starting with the most important features. The development team can then determine which of those features they can complete in a specific timeframe or “iteration” that typically ranges from 2 to 4 weeks.

Each iteration allows the customer to choose additional features (or enhancements to existing features) and to prioritize the remaining work. The development team can learn from each previous iteration to improve their estimating. If they complete all of the features agreed to, the team can start working on the next priorities as determined by the customer. If they can’t complete the set of features, again, it’s the customer who gets to decide which ones to defer until later.

Visit ExtremePlanner for further details.

Solutioncorp Project Management Software

Since 1991, SolutionCorp has delivered high quality software systems for business enterprise management. They have built their software business by leveraging the enormous marketing strength of today’s Internet. For selective clients, they extend our services to offer quality web design services, custom graphic arts and database web programming.

SolutionCorp’s web design service use the right blend of eye-catching graphics and meaningful flash presentations to create your unique online presence. Their web-marketing program is designed to strengthen your company’s web presence reaching an ever-broader customer audience.

SolutionCorp have created eTech Project Management, which successfully integrates Project Planning and Estimation, Employee Allocation, Time and Expense Tracking, and Client Billing. They provide your project managers with a “real time” window to accurate project, employee and client information.

The effort to track and organize projects is greatly simplified while producing a wealth of information for your management team. Projects can be organized into Phases and Tasks, then planned in detail by labor activity or operations. Employees optionally can be assigned to specific tasks or projects.

Detailed task notes are easily gathered during time sheet entry. This documentation can be valuable information regarding the status of your projects, in addition to providing your clients a complete record of services performed. Employees can easily record their time and expense activity in as little as 5-10 minutes a day with the our robust Time Sheet system.

Visit SolutionCorp.com for further details.

Pacific Edge Mariner Project Management Software

Pacific Edge Mariner flexibly combines portfolio, project, resource, demand and financial management to provide complete solutions for Project Portfolio Management (PPM), IT governance and New Product Development (NPD). Unlike other products whose process workflow or bottom-up project management approaches are cumbersome and difficult to implement, Mariner offers a balanced approach that ensures rapid results and sustained incremental value.

Mariner goes beyond efficient project and resource management, helping you to optimize performance, evaluate initiatives based on value and build a sound portfolio of investments. With Portfolio Management at its core, Mariner integrates all of the elements necessary for effective project portfolio management.

The Project Management component of Pacific Edge Mariner provides a consistent, comprehensive approach for initiating project requests, creating project plans, collecting project costs, and tracking time, status and deliverables.

Product Features

  • Drag-and-drop task planning — Create and maintain project and task plans using in-grid editing and drag-and-drop Gantt views to schedule tasks, create dependencies and assign resources.
  • Threaded discussions — Threaded discussions provide a standardized approach for documenting, assessing, resolving and escalating issues and risks.
  • Document management — Document management capabilities ensure key project and program information becomes part of the permanent record. Mariner’s native document management capabilities mean there’s no need to purchase another third-party solution.
  • Resource planning and timesheets — Resource planning views help project managers find the best available resources. Integrated time tracking allows project managers to update their task plans instantly with approved timesheet data, saving time and improving accuracy at the task level.

Key Benefits

  • Enhance on-time, on-budget delivery — Mariner enhances on-time, on-budget delivery through increased visibility at all stages and more consistent execution of standard project management processes.
  • Improve estimates and forecasts — Shared visibility via a central repository means past project data, templates and best practices can be used to create more accurate estimates and forecasts.
  • Reduce risk — Visibility ensures management can assess and address project risk at the portfolio level. Integrated issue and risk management tools help project teams manage risk at the project level.

Visit Pacific Edge Mariner for further details.

Three Olive Project Management Software

Three Olive Solutions LLC is a relatively new company that was founded in 2003. This company develops software solutions that support executive and management level staff in their efforts to be effective leaders within their organization. The company delivers on a promise of being an affordable and easy-to-implement and use service.

Their initial application is Portfolio Intelligence™, an ‘on-demand project portfolio management solution,’ which allows you to organize, control and communicate the benefits of your work efforts from project inception to completion.

Portfolio Intelligence™ project management software gives you the capability to make better decisions, increase resource utilizations, and manage projects based on business value.

Features of the software include; an executive dashboard, input wizards, planning templates, status indicators, flexible reporting tools, and the ability to import from third-party applications such as Microsoft® Project.

Three Olive Solutions are an IBM Advanced Business Partner, and Portfolio Intelligence™ has been tested and proven on IBM’s On-Demand architecture.

Portfolio Intelligence™ was specifically designed for mid-sized organizations and project management offices (PMOs) that need a more affordable, less complex solution than traditional packages. It can be used for all types of work efforts including IT projects, process improvement projects, product development projects and marketing projects

Three Olive Solutions offer three choices of implementation program, from the basic ‘Do-it-yourself’ option, to the ‘1-2-3 Quickstart Program’ where they take care of everything for you. In most cases Portfolio Intelligence™ can be implemented in 2 weeks or less.

Visit Three Olive Solutions LLC to learn more.

Veridian Program Management Software

Veridian’s ePMO is a browser-based project management system, which can be used to organise almost any kind of geographically dispersed workforce.

ePMO provides an environment where users can easily manage:

  • Work – by assigning, prioritizing, categorizing, scheduling, and managing planned and emergent activities.
  • Documents – by centrally storing, controlling, sharing, and collaborating on any type of file.
  • Meetings – by scheduling meetings for individuals and workgroups from different organizations with incompatible networks in a simple and central repository
  • Online Collaboration – by providing area’s for open discussion/collaboration on idea’s or topics

Any single module or combination of modules may be deployed as requirements dictate. The source code is available with no license fee and is reusable for almost any activity, document or workgroup management application.

Veridian provide dedicated project/content managers and draw on their expansive knowledge base to maximize the software’s capabilities and implement the optimum solution for the client.

Veridian are confident that initial operating capability can be achieved in two weeks to one month, with final operating capability achievable in one to six months. Steady State Support typically requires a part time Veridian project/content manager supported by subject matter experts, technical and product management staff as necessary.

Visit Veridian’s ePMO for further details.