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February 9, 2005
Award Nomination |
Vertabase Pro Nominated as Best eBusiness Software
Press Release |
Vertabase Pro, a leading web-based project management software application for business, has been nominated as the Best eBusiness Software in the eighth annual SYS-CON Media "Reader's Choice" awards competition. The "Reader's Choice" awards are considered the most prestigious contest in the software industry, and it is often referred to as the industry's "Oscars." The products participating in the program were nominated by their vendors, customers, users or SYS-CON readers.
Vertabase Pro, which uses the web to track business projects in one central location, has been nominated in two additional categories: Best Web and Most Innovative applications.
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September 13, 2004
Computerworld.com Magazine |
When the Project Plan Becomes the Problem
Story by Mark Phillips, co-founder |
From the article: While a good plan is critical for successful delivery of a project, following a plan too blindly in the face of the inevitable changes that projects face can be a recipe for failure. The best project managers know that successfully taking a project from concept to completion requires not only a plan, but the willingness to deviate from that plan when conditions change and adaptation is necessary.
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September 2004
Software Development Magazine |
The PM Prescription
Story by Donna Davis, cited in special guide to pm tools & trends |
Comprehensive online tool featuring a daily task window, forum for recording issues and lessons learned; includes powerful filters for viewing schedule and custom reporting.
Available in print. |
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July 12, 2004
Computerworld Magazine |
Standpipe Studios releases Vertabase Pro 3.6
Press Release |
Vertabase Pro 3.6 extends the product's suite of easy-to-use project management and analysis tools by providing a new video-based Learning Center with both specific Vertabase Pro usage tips and general project management advice, support for Intuit, Inc.'s QuickBooks® financial software, a new project planning mode for project "whiteboarding" and other usability updates.
"We are saving over 10 hours per week with the new QuickBooks® integration feature," said Kelly Earle, bookkeeper at Bailey Engineering Corp., a Jupiter, Florida based building science and mechanical engineering firm. "That's a substantial cost savings with this one feature alone."
"Vertabase Pro continues to deliver valuable features that couldn't be simpler to use" said Earle.
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May 4, 2004
The Detroit Free Press |
Vertabase Pro Software Crafts Faster and Better Project Management for Duncan Enterprises
Press Release |
Duncan Enterprises, the largest hobby ceramics and craft paint and glue manufacturer in the world, has successfully revamped significant portions of its project management functions using Vertabase Pro.
Daily hour-long status meetings in the marketing division have been reduced to twice-weekly, 15-minute updates, a manpower cost reduction from $770 to $77 per week. "Executive Staff is very pleased with our increased accountability to commitments and deadlines. We traded out tedious and duplicitous paper trail updates with true project management, thanks to Vertabase," said Victoria Raines, Advertising Business Leader.
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April 1, 2004
WWJ Newsradio 950, Finextra.com, Great Lakes IT Report |
ABN AMRO selects Vertabase software to enhance the IT infrastructure of its Global Futures Group
Press Release |
ABN AMRO's Global Futures group has selected Standpipe's web-based project management system, Vertabase Pro, to improve the management of internal information technology projects.
"Vertabase Pro offers us a way to share data across projects and locations," said Edward R. Merchant, Executive Director and CIO for ABN AMRO Global Futures in New York. "This gives our IT managers a single, consistent way of tracking the success of their projects and visibility into how resources are being used across our organization. It also gives our executives easy-to-use, big picture reports on everything we're doing."
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March 1, 2004
Building.com, Business.com, Great Lakes IT Report |
City College of New York improves operations with Vertabase project management
Press Release |
The City College of New York (CCNY) has realized significant operational improvements by utilizing Vertabase Pro, according to a recent joint study by CCNY and Standpipe. Vertabase Pro is a part of the College's day-to-day operations, helping to manage and raise the success rate of a wide variety of projects. "Vertabase forces people to think through in detail what is needed to complete a project," explained Dr. Lois Cronholm, COO of CCNY.
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December 2003/January 2004
MethodsandTools.com |
ASP tools for software development
Story by Franco Martinig, co-founder quoted in study |
"On a wide scale, hosted software is continually gaining traction. However, there are companies for which it makes sense for them to host their own software. It is generally a balance between the business case and the comfort level of the IT department. Very often, a happy medium can be worked out."
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December 18, 2003
CBS Marketwatch.com, Sys-Con ColdFusion Developer's Journal |
Standpipe Studios releases Vertabase Pro 3.5 project management tool
Press Release |
Vertabase Pro 3.5 extends the product's suite of easy-to-use project management and analysis tools by providing new graphical reporting capabilities, increased flexibility of individual task reports and on-the-fly data entry.
AFTECH, a FISERV company, has been using Vertabase Pro 3.5 to manage all Professional Services Projects. This includes core product implementations and conversions, consulting, training, core hardware system upgrades and EFT development projects. "This is a fabulous product. This tool facilitates our process re-engineering and best practice goals beyond our expectations," said Joe Riccardo, Professional Services Manager.
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December 2003
ComputerUser |
Profile: Standpipe Studios, Streamlining project management software
Story by Elizabeth Millard |
Interview with co-founder:
"There's a big demand for better organization. Most companies and processes are not as streamlined or efficient as stakeholders would like them be. That includes employees and freelancers who often bear the brunt of poor planning, and managers who have to pay for it. Our tool helps improve processes, saving companies time and money, and often, increasing morale."
"Another big need we fill is simplifying project management. Many of the tools currently available are too complicated or difficult to use or implement. We hear this all the time. Either a company has spent money on something which never gets used or people just get scared of ever using a tool. There are so many horror stories."
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September 22, 2003
Great Lakes IT Report |
Co-founder speaks at MIT Enterprise Forum
Story by Matt Roush |
Around 75 people attended at the General Motors research and development building in Warren and 23 other locations around the country (it was supposed to have been 24, but they were a little busy with a lady named Isabel last Thursday night in Baltimore). The crowd heard speakers broadcast from MIT and a local entrepreneurial panel describing their approach to non-conventional funding sources. Local speakers were Joe Hart of InfoAlly, Mark Phillips of Standpipe Studios, and Jack Dinno with Franklin Bank. They shared their views on how to get the money from angel investors, how to keep the money, and how to be ready to ask for more from your commercial bank, respectively.
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September 21, 2003
The Detroit News |
Firm helps businesses avoid project pitfalls
Story by Maureen McDonald |
Global Electronics, a supplier of computer prototypes for the auto industry, uses Vertabase Pro to track hours and activities of its vendors, consultants and employees for accurate billing and payroll. The software rapidly produces charts to depict what team is ahead of schedule and what lags behind. Van Hooser [the accounting manager] can pull up reports from her home computer and customers can track progress from off-site locations.
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September 16, 2003
Crain's Detroit Business and Projects@Work |
Cyntellect selects Vertabase Pro
Press Release |
"The Vertabase Pro software is a central location and communication point from which to co-ordinate all the complex tasks involved in bio-tech research and its application," says Leon J. Bodzin, Associate Director of Software Engineering at Cyntellect.
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November 25, 2002
Great Lakes IT Report |
Standpipe Studios launches Vertabase Pro version 3.0
Story by Matt Roush |
Madison Heights software developers Standpipe Studios L.L.C. said they have launched version 3.0 of their flagship project management software, Vertabase Pro. New features include an issue tracking system, more advanced scheduling functionality, an enhanced budget system, better expense reporting and better global task reporting. The original Vertabase dates back to November 1999.
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August 2002
Great Lakes IT Report |
Synergest now offering Vertabase Pro
Press Release |
"There is a real need for Standpipe Studios online project management application, Vertabase," said Synergest's President, Eric Spanitz. "Most organizations have grown beyond the use of a basic scheduling software package. With Vertabase's easy-to-use interface, we look forward to helping our clients advance towards simple web-based project management communication and control."
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March/April 2002
Projects@Work Magazine |
Tools of Engagement, Distributed Project Management Tools
Story by Greg Mandanis, Cited in article |
Vertabase Pro. Timesheet storage capabilities, centralized knowledge base, project-tracking library of project assets, resource allocation, global management reports on projects, budgets and time usage.
Available in print. |
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October 1, 2001
ProjectMagazine |
Get Vertical with Vertabase Pro
Story by Lee and James Appleyard |
The range of companies now using Vertabase Pro as their total project management application is a testament to the strength of features and ease of use. It has become the PM product of choice for a number of Fortune 2000 corporations as well as Fortune 100 companies. It has also become especially popular within the automotive and financial industries, showing that it is well suited for any size company.
We were impressed with the selection of features and functions of Vertabase Pro. It's a solid, well organised, and thought out program.
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July 2001
Projects@Work Magazine |
Cool Tools, Products for Project Managers
Vertabase Pro featured in section |
Vertabase's centralized knowledge base allows all team members access to time- and schedule- based project tracking and a library of project assets, such as text documents, spreadsheets and graphics ...
Available in print. |
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June 1, 2001
ZiffDavis Smart Business Magazine |
Power to the Project Manager!
Story by Bonny L. Georgia |
Joshua Sailor, assistant vice president and executive producer at Princeton Review in New York City, has trained about 20 project managers to use online service Vertabase. "A lot of our projects involve outsourced vendors and contractors," he says. "Because [Vertabase] is Web-based, it lets anyone working on our projects access things from anywhere."
If Sailor alters a project, the system updates everyone involved via e-mail. "I save anywhere from five minutes a day to an hour or more by not having to track down people, make sure things are done, or follow up on jobs," he says.
Site no-longer online. |
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September 13, 2000
Centerbeam |
Vertabase Pro offered on Centerbeam MarketplaceTM
Press Release by Centerbeam |
"CenterBeam has brought together a diverse and well-rounded collection of Web-based services to provide our small and mid-sized business customers with the opportunity to compete on a much larger scale," said Gordon Ronald, director of strategic relations at CenterBeam.
"CenterBeam's Marketplace provides growing businesses with proven, best-in-breed technology solutions," said Marc Peterson, CEO of TimeTrade.
"[Vertabase] handles the micro-managing, tracking and analysis of projects so companies can focus on their core expertise, and run their businesses efficiently," said Vertabase.
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September 16, 1999
NYC Economic Development Corporation (EDC) |
Mayor Giuliani announces 27 companies establish new presence in NYC
Press Release by NYC Economic Development Corporation (EDC) |
Standpipe Studios is a Michigan-based full-service strategic partner that offers Web development and high-value Website production services to clients such as MTV, New Line Cinemas and Young & Rubicam.
"By helping to bring new media companies [like Standpipe] to New York City, EDC is doing several things," said EDC President Michael Carey. "We are diversifying the city's economy, generating revenue for the marketplace of the 21st century, creating high-tech jobs, and helping firms successfully compete in The Business Capital of the World."
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