The ultimate collaborative environment for project execution, management and control

ProjExec for IBM Workplace is a comprehensive and robust, highly collaborative, role-based project management solution neatly integrated in a single web-based environment. With ProjExec for IBM Workplace, Trilog Group has eliminated the typical hurdles associated with managing projects in fragmented and highly distributed environments by providing an all-encompassing tool that builds upon IBM’s platform to provide capabilities for strengthening the management of multi-enterprise projects.

Many project management products offer a solution for planning and scheduling, leaving the project team to determine which tools they can use to collaborate on projects. This lack of integration between various tools often results in lower productivity and miscommunication – consequences that no project can afford if it is to succeed according to plan. Using ProjExec, project managers instantly create and manage virtual project teamspaces using advanced, integrated collaborative tools such as presence awareness, instant messaging, web conferencing, workflow and activity-based collaboration. Project team members have all the collaborative capabilities at their fingertips simply by logging into the project portal, independent of time zone, geography or organizational affiliation. ProjExec provides all users access to timely and relevant project information based on their role and permissions granted.

Features of this powerful productivity product include:

• Single project execution portal with all the modules and tools required to optimize project efficiency and productivity
• Complete native integration with IBM Workplace, adding to the collaborative strengths of the Workplace platform
• Improved project visibility and new levels of insight and control with tracking, rule-based alerts, and reporting tools at all levels from individual team member to project to portfolio
• Enhanced contextual collaboration, such as orderly threaded discussions initiated to facilitate ad hoc communication and trace history and progress, with “presence awareness” integrated throughout
• Componentized architecture with highly configurable templates and modules to extend and customize ProjExec to implement each organization’s specific internal processes and practices
• Powerful installer for easy and rapid deployment on Workplace and simple administration
• Works with MS Project and is in complete compliance with the industry standard project management practices of the Project Management Institute (PMI)
• Document management and search providing management visibility into all aspects of a project, including resources, costs, scheduling, and issue tracking
• Integrated, role-based workflow supporting project issue management, change management and time tracking modules

The result brings together all of the management tools, communications capabilities, and project information needed by today's distributed workforce to complete projects successfully. The solution scales elegantly as requirements expand and organizations grow to include customers, partners and suppliers beyond customary boundaries of geography and time zone.

Ready for Workplace

Trilog's ProjExec for IBM Workplace has been validated by IBM and is one of the very first robust applications to earn the “Ready for Workplace” distinction. ProjExec is available for IBM Workplace Collaboration Services 2.5, and is also available for IBM's WebSphere Portal and Workplace Services Express (WSE) 2.5 platforms. Trilog’s ProjExec for IBM Workplace is optimized to run with all IBM Workplace platforms and seamlessly integrates a strong project management foundation with the powerful collaborative capabilities of Workplace.

Take advantage of IBM’s team-collaboration and portal technologies and team up with a powerful collaborative role-based portal solution for managing multiple projects. ProjExec leverages capabilities unique to IBM Workplace and allows you to:

• Drag and drop ProjExec modular portlets in combination with Workplace-supplied portlets to integrate key project management tools in your customized individual Workplace
• Easily extend the solution - use ProjExec’s role-based templates to create team spaces customized to your project needs
• Make use of integrated presence awareness, instant messaging, Web conferencing and customizable team spaces to function as a highly coordinated project team, regardless of location, time or organizational affiliation

Built BY project managers FOR project managers

ProjExec for IBM Workplace is built for project managers by project managers, as evidenced by the fact that our lead architect is PMI certified. ProjExec is a complete modular solution focused on the execution requirements of all project processes and phases, from initiation to completion.

The ProjExec solution integrates with MS Project to enable project managers to use MS Project as a familiar and convenient planning and scheduling tool. ProjExec becomes the space to collaborate and execute plans that have been imported from MS Project, making ProjExec as powerful, yet far more affordable than alternatives such as MS Project Enterprise.

ProjExec is not a replacement for planning and scheduling tools. ProjExec is a product designed for project managers and stakeholders to augment control and visibility of distributed projects by centralizing all project communication and information in a single portal environment.

The extensive collection of project management modules includes:

• Role-based project administration portal with modules to define clients, projects, team members and customized templates and tailor other project attributes during the Initiation phase of a new project
• Modules for entering Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), task schedules, and resource assignments during the Planning phase, with options to import a schedule from MS Project or enter a WBS using a graphical drawing module
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Additional Planning phase modules include a central document repository with a workflow document approval process to add and collaborate on key project documents, such as Quality Plans, Specifications, Change Control Plans and other supporting project documentation
• Execution and Control phase modules, such as a dashboard module for real time tracking of project status and progress, time tracking and automated approval processes, customizable issue management and change management modules with workflow automation and rules and alerts constantly tracking planned versus actual results
• Enhanced collaboration modules for all phases, including threaded discussion forums, instant messaging and automated notifications; particularly valuable in the Execution and Control phases where timely notification and resolution of project issues and changes to the plan can make or break the successful completion of a project
• Real time visibility to results using the dashboard and project tracking modules to determine results and collaborate on acceptance of results during the Closure phase of the project. Archived documents, history and audit trail of all project details.