Software review: InLoox now!
Read my software review of InLoox now!, a project management tool with a German pedigree and a full suite of professional project management features.
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Reviews of project management software from a real user, who literally wrote the book on Collaboration Tools for Project Managers. I’ve tried out dozens of tools to save you time and show you the best features.
Enterprise Software: Are You Still Looking for Best-in-Class?
Is best-in-class still something you should look for in an enterprise project management system? Sanket Pai argues that an all-one-solution is a better choice for an organisation that wants to capitalise on productivity and lower overheads.
Social Media on Projects: 5 Common Mistakes
There continues to be debate around how best to implement social media and collaboration tools on projects. Learn about the common mistakes made when implementing collaboration and social media tools on projects. Set your tools up to help you manage projects.
What users want from project software: A case study
Pawel Wieckowski from GlaxoSmithKline presented a case study on their project software deployment at the Gartner PPM & IT Summit earlier this year. He started off by saying that they defined who would be using the tool. Users, he said, fell into the following categories: Project management community Project Management Office Senior management The whole…
Software review: Comindware Project
General information Name: Comindware Project Vendor: Comindware Hosting options: Web hosted and locally hosted Cost:Cloud service starts at $29.99 per user per month for up to 9 users. On-premise service starts at $450 per user (a lot, but that’s a one-off fee). Fees decrease the more users you have. Languages:English Currency: No currency options that…
Software review: Twproject
General information Name: TwprojectVendor: Open LabHosting options: Web hosted and locally hostedCost: Locally hosted from 1 user per year at 45€ with an interesting non-expiring licence option for between 1 and unlimited users capped at 5000€. Web hosted from 53€ a month for 10Gb of storage and 10 users. The cloud versions go up in…
Software review: activeCollab
General information Name: activeCollab Vendor: A51 Hosting options: Web hosted and locally hosted Cost: From $25 for a small cloud hosted option to $2999 a year for a mega cloud option, and reasonable locally hosted prices too. Languages:English as standard with the option of downloading German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Swedish. Plus you can translate…
Software review: Glip
General information Name: Glip Vendor: Glip Hosting options: Web hosted Cost: Free for basic features, 5GB of storage and up to 10k posts. When you run out of space you can move to the $5 per month per person model or scale up for more storage and priority support at $10 per month per person….
Will Project Management Benefit from the Internet of Things?
This is a guest post by Zach Watson of TechnologyAdvice. The Internet of Things is perhaps the new most-used phrase to describe a recent technological breakthrough. Interestingly, the hype behind this particular innovation describes technology spread over a number a machines that work in concert. The most famous cases are sensors placed into arguably mundane…
How do you build a successful project team? Tips from Microsoft
Leadership, teaming, technology adoption and measuring effectiveness are the four things that Mike Hughes, Office Business Group Lead for Microsoft Ireland believes are essential for building a successful project team. He spoke at an Ireland Chapter of PMI event recently about collaboration best practice and how to create effective project teams in the current business…
Review: Primavera P6 Video Training
Project management tools come in many shapes and flavours, and most of what I review is software designed to manage small and medium-sized projects. Primavera, on the other hand, is an enterprise-grade software solution aimed at companies with a mature approach to project management probably with a programme or portfolio management approach in hand too….
Software Review: Less Meeting
General information Name: Less MeetingVersion: 1.3.2, I tested the iPad appVendor: Less MeetingHosting options: Web hostingCost and plans: Free trial, then between $12 and $499 per month, with discounts for charitable organisationsLanguages: English Basic features: creating meetings Less Meeting is meeting productivity tool. It allows you to create agendas, share minutes and manage your meeting…