Thursday, November 5, 2009

A Snapshot of Some PPM Solution Providers in the SaaS Space

1. Genius Inside

Established in 1997 and headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, Genius Inside creates and sells enterprise project management solutions, known as Genius Project.

With over 70,000 North American users and close to 400 installs worldwide, Genius Inside also has a vast network of resellers, and the company is a certified IBM Partner. The software is designed for the Lotus Domino Collaboration server, and has won numerous awards, such as the 2008 Lotus award for Best Mid-Market Solution. The product is a comprehensive set of integrated applications across ten modules.

Genius Project: Features and Benefits

  • User-friendly software with a customizable user interface.

  • Numerous standard templates, such as Project Management Institute (PMI), PRINCE2, and Six Sigma, which easily integrate to an organization's existing processes within its enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, such as procurement, accounting, etc.

  • A complete project management solution, including portfolio management, project tracking, cost and budget tracking, planning tools, etc.

  • A resource management system, with user-friendly and customizable time- and tracking-sheets, advanced reporting, process and workflow support, a document management system, and the ability to use rich collaboration.

  • A cross-industry solution that can be used in both process and discrete manufacturing environments, and that is scalable to both large global locations and small offices having two or three users.

  • Reports that can be exported to MS Project, and vice versa.

  • Project information work breakdown schedule (WBS) that can be displayed in Gantt chart format.

  • Multi-project milestones and key performance indicators (KPIs) that can be displayed and that support rich analytics using online analytical processing (OLAP) tools through a business intelligence (BI) interface.

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