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Modules & Features

Module Overview

• Finance
  Tracking and evaluating company results
• Project Management
  Internet Project collaboration and management
• Customer Management
  A "CRM-Light"
• Supplier Management
  Freelancers etc.
• Human Resources Management
  Staff Employees and Skills
• Knowledge Management
  Supporting knowledge processes
• Data-Warehouse & Business Intelligence
  Analyzing and discovering patters in your business
• Content & Community
  Optional modules related to creating online communities and Internet transactions around your business.
• Systems Integration & Interfaces
  Modules that connect ]project-open[ with other systems.

Finance

The aim of the finance module is to provide the company's senior management with a real-time view to all relevant financial information of the company. For this purpose ]project-open[ provides a number of specialized modules that cover all important areas of small and medium-sized project organizations:

• Invoicing
• Timesheet management
• Travel costs
• Fixed costs
• Provider costs (via Web interface)
• Cost Center Permissions
• Financial reporting
• Export interfaces to Excel, KHK Kaufmann, ContaPlus, SQL-Ledger and SAP-FI

Project Management

The PM module integrates project-related information from all ]po[ modules into "project rooms" or "e-rooms", allowing you to collaborate online with providers and customers (Extranet). Sophisticated access permissions allow you to protect your business critical information.

• Projects, subprojects and project task
• Project templates
• Project-related chat rooms
• Project reports and -tracking
• Risk Management
• "Earned Value" project completion tracking
• Gantt scheduling
• Project filestorage
• Project discussions
• Project news
• Incident management
• Import interface to MS-Project
• Integration with cost management
• Integration with invoicing

Customer Management

The Customer Management module ("CRM-light") unifies all functionality related to the management or customer relationships.

• Customer contact management
• Integrated customer interaction history
• Online web registration
• Customer tracking
• Customer classification and status engine
• Import interfaces with MS-Outlook and ACT!

Supplier Management

The Supplier Management Module unifies all functionality related to the management of suppliers in project-oriended organizations. The strategic suppliers for this type of businesses are usually freelancers and other types of human resources, so the boundary between HR and suplier modules is blurry.

• Supplier contact management
• Integrated supplier interaction history
• Freelance skill database
• Supplier web invoice tracking
• Supplier quality module

Human Resources Management Module

The Human Resources Management Module mainly deals with the management of staff employees.

• Employee payroll information
• Employee recruitment process
• Employee portraits are shown together with their office

Knowledge Management Module

• Full-text seach engine for Intranet, discussions and external files
• "Expert Finder" to localize a domain expert and post questions
• "Knowledge Market" evaluates knowledge supply and use
• Extensible permission management to control the access to business critical knowledge resources

Translation Module

• Translation workflow
• Translation quality
• Translation project status reports
• Integration with invoicing module
• Integration with TinyTM open-source translation memory

Data Warehouse & Business Intelligence

• Multidimensional view to all corporate data
• Predefined multidimensional cubes
• Implementations available for open-source (Mondrian) and commercial (MS-SQL-Server) OLAP servers
• Predefined models for extraction of CRM key performance indicators (in collaboration with Loyalty Matrix)

Content & Community Modules

]project-open[ is based on the OpenACS community platform, so that all OpenACS modules are also available for ]project-open[. These modules include:

• A powerful Online store
• Classified Ads (second-hand market)
• Public discussion forums
• Webmail
• Jabber Chat
• Blog & Wiki
• ... (please see list of packages)

Security

Please see our security section for in-depth information. Current security features include:

• One-Time-Password Autentication
• Build for the Internet with high-security architecture
• Role-based permission management
• Subadministration of users
• All modules are customizable (open source code).
• Secure-HTML / SSL encryption

Systems Integration

• Autentification integration with corporate LDAP server
• "Multi-Company" allows to manage several separated companies with different URLs on a single server
• XML-RPC Interface.

Common Characteristics

• Intuitive graphical user interface
• All modules are customizable (open source code).
• Customized (modified) modules can in general be used with the next version of ]po[ ("survive" a system update).

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