Apr 1, 2007
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Enterpise Project Management Software - 3 Key Features
There are three key features most users look for in enterprise project management software:
1) Porftolio Views;
2) Executive Dashboards and;
3) Automatic notification.
Portfolio views allow managers, clients or executives to view projects grouped together into different portfolios, or categories, that are meangingful to that person. For example, a marketing department may have numerous initiatives active for a particular brand. The project status details of each iniatitive may be important for the resources working on them or to their manager. But an executive often wants to see the status of all projects for that brand, grouped specifically by brand, compared against other brands for which that executive may be responsible.
Executive dashboards are templated reports which convey the exact information an executive wants to see. Rather than hunt around for the metrics which are important for enterprise wide decision making, an executive dashboard gives the decision maker instant visibility into the specific status items they’ve designated as important or relevant to their decision making process. Enterprise project management software should make these reports easy to access (often with a single mouse click) and easy to create.
Automatic notification keeps people in the loop on project milestones without requiring them to constantly login to the software. It leverages the data gathering capabilities of enterprise project software while utilizing an email notification engine to distribute overall project information. This is particularly helpful for busy managers or executives who don’t want the added to-do of checking another business intelligence system but to whom the data in that system is exetremely useful.
Vertabase Pro offers these three key features in an easy to use enterprise project management system. A free test drive is available as well as a live, web-demo with an experienced project management software consultant.
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I agree with your post on enterprise dashboards and would add a couple more criteria that users would look for: drill-down capability and charting. I invite submissions of your dashboard into the screenshot collection at The Dashboard Spy.