Project Timesheets & Time Tracking
SharePoint integration with Microsoft Project Server allows getting a powerful project management collaboration Solution. SharePoint enhances Project Server functionality by providing features like managing risks, issues and documents for your projects.
Instant Business Network Software™ (IBN) takes the best and most important features that are commonly found Microsoft Project Server and SharePoint products and makes them available in a fully integrated solution that can be rapidly installed.
IBN combines both project management and project collaborative tools and can replace MS Project + SharePoint Solutions, e.g.:
Project planning and editing
Project team creating, adding lists of sponsors and stakeholders
Creating tasks, to-dos, calendar entries, issues and other objects within projects
Collaborative and communication tools, discussions, file library, instant messaging
Project coordination and tracking, automatic reminders and notifications about project updates
24/7 project information access
Project reports and statistics
Using IBN and MS Project features for working with projects at one time
IBN as Alternative MS Project: faster setup, more
capabilities, lower costs, and more
IBN is fully integrated solution that combines features of MS Project Server
and SharePoint
IBN can be installed rapidly by yourself without addition IT-infrastructure
expenses
IBN can be also used without any installation as an On Demand Solution
Price for IBN Server starts at only $990 per 10 Users
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IBN Project Suite
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MS Project Server
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Project Templates
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Document/File Library
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List and Data Base Record Management
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Team Calendaring
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Microsoft
Office Integration
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Project Time Tracking
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Email Issue/File Routing
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Integrated
Reporting/Dashboards
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SaaS Solution
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Comparison of Deployment Time, Costs and Complexity
In addition to the combined features and integrated IBN platform, our customers
know that both the costs of licensing and the time/process to actually get a
"working" solution into production is unparalleled. Finally, all of the data,
information, relationships and ability to measure and report on this data is all
in the same system versus several different systems.
Multiple Server/Product Installs, Multiple User Training, Do it Yourself
Integration, Increased Costs, and an extended period of time before you gain any
business value
Purchase several server products (3 if you want messaging), and then find
another set of vendors to handle issues, time tracking, and db/record management
Purchase separate client access licenses for EACH user and EACH server and EACH Product and watch your costs and complexity go up
Make sure you have access to expensive specialists or in-house experts and have their time to install configure and setup as each server will need to be installed and configured separately (complex)
Be prepared to work hard on defining requirements, process, end-user training processes, and a whole litany of other types of "integration/process planning"
Now, if you want to "connect everything up, add reporting functionality, actually have these systems integrate and collate project, issues, file relationships, and integrated business communications its time to bring in the development staff to perform Integration and testing of integration
Finally, if you have made it through all of this, it’s time to coordinate your rollout, training, operational procedures, and everything else