Those who work today on projects, has increasingly to do with team members who are not on site, but there are in other stores or even in other countries.
But not only among the so-called global players but also for SMEs and freelancers, the trend as down to work with people who are not in the same office but somewhere in the wide networked world.
Nevertheless, the activities of all members must be planned, its schedules and project documents of all available and meetings in which demonstrations, brainstorming etc. take place, accessible for everyone.
For these tasks, the Swedish company "Projectplace International" has its software-as-a-Service product Projectplace develops what it is with "Projectplace Free" is a free version.
Projectplace
"Projectplace International" with 400,000 users worldwide, Europe's leading online service for project management, many IT companies thereof or IT departments.
Their product "Projectplace" is a web-based on-demand application for precisely this area, which users have the ability to continuously and independently of the location can access their project data.
"Projectplace" provides several tools for organizing projects, for exchanging data and information, holding of meetings and much more.
Generally, we can already after the first few clicks to say that the software developers have given a lot of effort in the useability.
So the operation is very intuitive succeeded and even the availability of the missing in web applications context menu (right mouse button menus) are solved via pulldown menus well.
In addition, there is in each region a detailed screencast that explains the functions and the training of new users much easier.
The existing in six languages Software consists of six major categories, which are listed here again briefly:
- Project overview: Here you can quickly find the most important facts of your current projects, such as upcoming events, news etc. overlook.
- Document Management: Manages here your uploaded files in self-definable and can be provided with the right folder structures.
- Task Management: Created in this area your project plans, has duties to the members and monitors the progress of the project.
- Open Issues: Here you will find relevant to you work and activities
- Meetings: Manages here your offline and online meetings and hold your meetings online via its own online meeting from Netviewer.
- User Management: Creates new team member accounts and know them to user-defined groups with the appropriate user rights.
Safety aspects
The safety aspects of such online Servicesâ are naturally imens important.
Therefore, the company has introduced many measures in this regard to ensure the security of data.
These include:
- Authorization check on each transaction
- Encrypted communication (SSL)
- Full hardware and software redundancy
- Real-time mirroring of databases
- Ongoing data backups
- Fire safety and emergency power supply
- Internal processes and functions based on ISO / IEC 17799
Various information on this can be found in the security policies and security concept.
The free version Projectplace Free
"Projectplace Free" is the free version of Projectplace.
It is used indefinitely and includes three user licenses.
However, there are drawbacks to the online meetings, which is in contrast to the paid version bordered time to 10 minutes.
It must also be dispensed with telephone support, support is only via e-mail here done.
But that's understandable at a price of 0 Euro.
This Free version have small businesses with small drawbacks so completely to take the opportunity of this online product free of charge and easy to test big companies have the option first.
An impression of the software you can in this presentation screencasts get.
Conclusion
Project Place is a very interesting product that especially in today's globally networked world is useful.
In addition, my Useability like very much and with the free version can prospective customers quickly gain a first impression.
In addition, the educational films are managed and let the user rarely open questions, so that the support has to be hardly used.
All in all, Projectplace for me a thoroughly enjoyable product.
What is your opinion on this and / or similar tools? Have you perhaps even experience with it?
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