What is Project Communicator?

Project Communicator enables organizations to monitor and mange all kinds of project carried out in their system. The software is an efficient and easy to use tool for the project team to plan, share, communicate and report their works. Project Communicator offers powerful, flexible features that satisfy experienced project managers and are easy enough for team members to learn and adopt.

Technologies

• Web-based application supports all major browsers (Firefox, IE, Chrome, Safari, Opera)
• Developed on Microsoft technologies (ASP/IIS, SQL Server)
• Exchanges data and integrates with MS Project Server, LDAP/Active Directory, SMTP server, Outlook

Functionality

Project Communicator provides functions to manage all aspects of a project

• Plan: Build the detailed plan including tasks and milestones from a work break down structure with task dependencies. Plan can be imported from Microsoft Project file and can be displayed as Gantt chart. Assign resources to tasks online. Reallocate tasks on the fly, so you've always got the right people working on the right tasks at the right time.
• Resources: Mobilize team members (individual or group) from any department in the organization and assign them appropriate roles in the project. Resources may have different normal and overtime rates that are based upon to calculate cost. Non-human resources of the organization (vehicles, machines and equipment, offices, etc.) can also be booked for the project.
• Work/Timesheet: Members of the project team are able to claim timesheet for the tasks they are assigned. Role-based workflow for cerfifying timesheet can be defined by the organization. Wide range of comprehendsive and intelligent reports are available for project manager to evaluate team’s effort to make sure the project plan works with its resources.
• Meeting: Schedule meetings (one-timed or recursive events) in the project with email notification and Outlook Calendar integration capabilities. Attendants’ availability can be checked throughout projects automatically. Meeting notes and other materials can be attached to the meeting for retrieval.
• Material: Project team can share all kinds of digital materials and utilities and make them available to other projects.
• Risk: Manage project risks, their cost, the period they should be monitored and assign them to members of the team. Preventive and corrective actions and costs can also be defined.
• Issue: Manage issues in a project and record all activities processing them.
• Budget: Plan the project budget and record all its actual expenditures and fundings. Generate project profit and loss sheet.
• Message: A project blog where team members post public notes and write follow up comments.

Other functionality:

• Integrated communication tools: Instant messaging between online users, announcements, polls, email
• Personal dashboard: Each user can personalize his or her dashboard by selecting and defining the layout of various portlets that set available to them.
• Role-based user right control: Organization can define unlimited number of roles in a project and set appropriate rights to them.
• Authority data: Organization-specific information such as org chart, project type, work type, staff group, etc as well as system prebuilt data dictionaries like project status or currency unit can be managed easily.
• System parameters: Almost all parameters of system configuration can be modified in web-based admin module.
• Reports and statistics: Reports are easily generated and exported to Word, Excel, web and printed out. Admin can define which user group can access which report.

Product advantages

• Project Communicator focuses on facilitating the communication of project team, one of the most important activities of project management as well as in any collaborative working mode.
• Web-based application model enables an easy deployment on Intranet/Internet environment without requiring any client side software installation.

Rich and intuitive functionality helps cutting down project management cost and effort while improving its professionalism and efficiency.