My favorite Project Management tool is Microsoft Project. Coming second is eProject.
eProject is a web driven project management system where all the user need is a brower. We tested the eProject with a iE Explorer 6.0
Lets get to the features. Loves its contact manager. It is not fancy but practical and simple. It s timesheets feature is great. Beside the basic manual entry. data can be exported to this feature throught your accounting software.
Since it is a browser-driven system, there is nothing to install. Reviewed the help/support section of eProject. After 5 mins of reading, I got it running.
In my opinion, eProject best feature is the check–in, check–out process of document management. This allows you to keep control over documents by setting restrictions, version numbers and even see if a document’s final draft has been edited. It also has a history log. This feature also allow the user to sort documents by version number. Its navigation is smooth and easy. Other ease of use are setting permissions and restrictions. eProject users should never have to worry about someone overwriting or deleting a document that they shouldn’t have access to.
Will touch more on eProject other features: resource management feature and reporting generation.
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Many years ago, when this Chief Architect started in the high technology business as a lowly programmer. He believed in the “state of art” toolset was the way to gain that technical performance edge, he would list out a page of “suggested” software programming tools. Then send it to the boss-mentor . His mentor later looked at my list and starts to cross out 90% of the programs. On the bottom was this note, “… Never buy anything with the version # nn.00. It is usually a bust. … If you do, expect to pay for the priviledge of testing for that client. … Always remember that only fools ‘pay to play’ with anything of less quality.”
As usual, Microsoft indirectly expects their base of loyal users to test out their latest operating system and pay for it.
Microsoft’s latest Vista problem is a battery drainage Each time the user uses the Aero Glass interface, a spiffy new user interface that makes Vista more pleasing to the eye with transparent windows and animated transitions when transposing from one application to another.
Whenever the Aero interface is used on a Vista-driven laptop, the battery is drained dramatically. A lot of the MS users who used Vista on their laptop are not happy.
My guess is that Microsoft will force the hardware vendors to increase their battery performance. Microsoft rarely retreat. They reload.
Have not ran into this problem since our copy of Vista is being used on a state of the art desktop PC.
In the future, will write about the basic framework of Vista.
More information on Vista’s current battery problem can be found at http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-6181366.html
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Currently Software as a Service (SAS) is the hot marketplace for global software companies and global startups. The top SaS companies are: Salesforce and Netsuite. The latest company making this transition from the desktop to the web is Adobe.
Early this week, saw an interesting interview with Ray Ozzie, the Chief Software Architect of Microsoft, They are preparing to make that same move with their “Silverlight” services.
The popular categories of this type of Web software apps are: customer-relationship management. ERP, ecommerce, and business intelligence/real-time dashboards.
Whether you work for a small business or a Fortune 500 company, SaS is going to be the mainstay of the global economy. Are you prepared for it?
If you are planning to make that move from desktop software to web services, start with a small application and work your way up to a larger application. Make sure the services are running 24/7 and your data is protected 24/7.
In the global economy, your data is the bloodline of your company. Lose it, your company can be in a grand problem.
At this moment, software applications have evolved. Ask yourself this question, “Is your company ready to take that step?”
There are some applications that this Chief Architect prefers to have on his server. But that is another story.
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