Modules & Features
Module Overview
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:
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.
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
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).