RSS feed... is an integrated web-based project management and PSA (Professional Services Automation) for consulting companies and IT departments with 2-200 employees.
The application helps you to run your business by taking care
of everything from CRM, project planning, project tracking, collaboration,
timesheet management to invoicing and payments.
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]project-consulting[ offers a complete 100% Web-based solution to manage the processes in a consulting organization:
Project Execution Processes
]project-consulting[ provides modules for all important processes in a consulting organizations. It covers:
Consulting project teams consists of highly specialized experts that are distributed geographically organizationally. Thus an efficient project organization requires that all project resources are centralized in a single repository of documents, discussions etc. Everything needs to be accessible securely and efficiently over the Internet, independent of the location of the team member.
]project-open[ with its roots in large online community system has been designed from scratch for such type of Internet collaboration. Its Project Rooms concentrate all project resources such as documents, discussions, customer information etc. in a single location, 100% accessible from the Internet.
It's sophisticated permission management allows you for example to include customers in a project at the same time as freelancers, while avoiding any contact between the two groups.
Consulting projects frequently follow a predetermined methodology, consisting of determined project phases, activities and documents to be created. Methodologies provide an important structure that allows junior consultants to work more efficiently and that avoids repeating costly mistakes made in previous projects.
]project-open[ supports Project Methodologies by providing "project templates" consisting of project phases (sub projects), activities, document templates, milestones and reports to be filled-out. New projects can easily composed from these predefined templates. The completion of project phases and thus the methodology can be tracked by the completion of milestones and reports.
]project-consulting[ supports recruiting, qualification and assignments of consultants. Job requests by consultants either from the web site directly or by HR staff are channeled into a "Recruiting Workflow", formalizing the selection and qualification process. All professional activities of a consultant are registered and can be consulting in the employee register.
]project-consulting[ allows easy access to all explicit knowledge (documents, discussions, information sources, ...) using an advanced AI search engine. Experts can be found using an "Expert Finder" search engine. These experts can be contacted with questions in a "Knowledge Market" and expert answer are evaluate in order to calculate the "karma points" of each expert.
]project-consulting[ contains special modules for travel costs and timesheet management that greatly reduce the administration overhead for consultants and managers by providing a one-stop-shop solution to capture and invoice these items. The captured data can then be exported in various formats to the corporate ERP system.
]project-consulting[ allow you to create quotes and invoices automatically for the following modes of project billing:
]project-consulting[ features a fine-grained and flexible permission scheme, allowing to configure access permissions based on roles or profiles of consultants, including external project members such as freelancers and customer employees.
]project-consulting[ is open-source software and available free of charge. Please see the download area and the How to get it? for details on how to obtain the software or contact us for more information.
