Project management server

Project management server software works using special element (server component) as a central point for interconnecting the subordinated workstations (client components) and establishing collaboration between them. Such software allows administering, planning and controlling of different project-related matters such as resources, tasks, time, people, etc. Practically project management server component is used to drive, control and protect the database containing organization’s business information against unauthorized access, along with enabling multiple authorized users to access this database and operate with its content in a regulated manner. Project management server based solutions are effective and popular as they enable and promote the following things:

• Consistency, integrity and safety of business information contained in the database.
• Real-time updating business information in the database.
• Real-time accessing, recording and retrieving business information from the database.
• Possibility for multiple people to contribute and share data pieces concurrently.

Enterprise project management server:

Due to development of IT, organizational managers aspire to implement its products to gain more of productivity and positive effects from business activities they supervise. Project management server software used on enterprises is a tool which is installed on a corporate server computer which enables and maintains company’s virtual environment where employees can collaborate in terms of their tasks and duties. 

Microsoft project management server – Microsoft offers a solution to organize collaborative relations between users of MS Project which is a very powerful and highly-approved business tool for managing project time, tasks and resources. To establish this system you need to buy individual licenses of MS Project for every user who is supposed to collaborate, and finally to buy and install costly MS Server application that requires some skillful efforts of IT specialists to be deployed. Such a solution can work for large and quite rich companies.

Linux project management server – there is a wealth of server-based solutions for Linux systems. The common traits for many of them are traditional Linux-oriented advantages such as freeness or moderation in pricing policy, and open-source capabilities. Such solutions are good for companies where the most of the staff members work with Linux-based systems, however, in spite of low prices you still need a help of qualified IT specialists to install and maintain this software.

Open source project management server – if your company has a powerful IT staff and desires to invest some time and money into inventing your own solution suiting specific needs of your industry and workflow, then you should try some open-source software that allows you to modify its program code. Usually basic version of such software is distributed for free.

Free project management server – this kind of project management server software provides its collaboration module (server component) for free. Usually, such software itself isn’t distributed for free, but requires certain payment for client applications, while providing its server part for free (unlike Microsoft does). This approach allows its developers to moderate their pricing policy.

Example of project management server program with free server component:

VIP Task Manager is effective client-server software that is a proven commercial product with a big number of satisfied clients all over the world. In spite of the fact that this is not free software, it uses yet a freeware project management server component, so you need to pay only for number of licenses you want to buy (according to number of users collaborating in real-time). This allows considerable moderating a price per license, which makes this program quite popular among users from SME segment. Besides moderate price, this program is very easy in installation and use, so you don’t need some advanced IT skills to deploy this tool over your LAN.