Project management solutions

It’s natural to say that today various project management solutions help organizations to overcome many challenges, such as out-of-control costs, past deadline, overspent budgets and improper resource allocation. Without a doubt, ther're in the center of the activities for planning strategic goals and controlling resource consumption. When some projects are not fully aligned with an organization’s top goals and available budgets are not allocated properly, enterprise project management solutions allow synchronizing efforts with strategic goals according to existing priorities and available funds. By means of the best tools, business owners and executives can turn activities in their companies into coherent and chained flows of tasks and processes organized into complex projects.

PM software is a solution that can be applied to planning, controlling, measuring and monitoring processes and tasks within an organization. Project management software solutions allow companies to create work environments in which workers can collaborate with each other, communicate results, share knowledge, access common project databases, and contribute to achievement of strategic goals.

There are several kinds of PM software, including desktop and web based project management solutions. Each organization will make its own choice depending on its needs and requirements. Web based packages will be best for large companies that tend to work online with customers, suppliers, vendors, investors, partners, etc. Web based or hosted solutions become efficient when there is no need to create project data locally and store information on corporate servers. For example, such shareware as Google ToDo List is simple enough providing web based access to tasks and projects. Employees can use their free Gmail accounts to work on shared goals, do common tasks, and participate in collaborative projects.

Desktop enterprise sharewares are often chosen by small businesses that prefer working on projects and processes by means of local network tools. Desktop solutions are more safe and often more convenient to planning and control of projects. For example, MS SharePoint allows teams to work on collaborative projects through using LAN.

Another example of desktop software solutions for PM is VIP Task Manager. This software gives you better tools for planning, scheduling, tracking, measuring and reporting your projects. VIP Task Manager is based on a client-server platform that allows your teams to collaborate and access project data through LAN or Internet.

VIP Task Manager is available as a hosted solution that you can try for free during 1 month. When using the hosted project management solution, you can keep your projects in a remote database stored on the server of VIP Quality Software company.