BrightWork Products for SharePoint 2007
Many of the organizations we serve used to manage their projects on various lists distributed over many locations such as email, Excel, white boards, network drives and so on. These organizations were not ready for large, complex and expensive project management systems, but they absolutely needed some level of project management to control project expectations, outcomes and costs.
The reality is that the level of project management process that an organization requires and can adopt depends on the organization itself and the projects and work being managed.
The 'walk the process line' popup diagram on the right hand side depicts the varied levels of work and project management process needed in today's organizations and the corresponding SharePoint based-solutions offered by BrightWork and Microsoft. Using the SharePoint platform, we at BrightWork aim to serve the very wide middle ground of the spectrum, filling the very large gap between Email and Excel on the left hand side and high end Enterprise Project Management systems on the right hand side. More about “Managing Projects on SharePoint” on the blog.
From 1995 to today BrightWork has built process driven work and project management products on top of the industry leading collaborative platforms of the time. It is believed that we are the only company to have developed and delivered a commercial software product on the main leading collaborative platforms (Lotus Notes; Microsoft Exchange 2000 webstore; SharePoint 2001; SharePoint 2003; SharePoint 2007) with the same basic product mission (process driven work and project management). More about the BrightWork history thus far
BrightWork pmPoint
BrightWork pmPoint is a SharePoint 2007 add-on for managing work and projects. The real value of pmPoint is that the product helps manage work and projects of different sizes (from small projects to large projects) and projects of different types (business, finance, IT, product development, etc.). It assumes a mixed project management complexity environment. pmPoint understands very well that a one-size-fits-all does not work when it comes to project management. Therefore pmPoint has a set of pre-built project management templates, web parts, dashboards, tools and lists that mimic the reality of the varying degrees of project management needed in most organizations today.
Unlike ad hoc tools such as email and Excel, or even the larger traditional project and portfolio management solutions, pmPoint delivers a complete project management system that is rapid-to-deploy, enables broad adoption, and has a low ownership cost. pmPoint can be used with or without Microsoft Project as the needs of the project dictate. More about pmPoint.
BrightWork pmPoint Online
pmPoint Online is a version of pmPoint that is available in a hosted SharePoint environment where your organization can pay per user per month essentially consuming the pmPoint software as a service (SaaS). More about pmPoint Online
BrightWork Reporter
Does your organization want visibility across the growing volume of information in your SharePoint environment and need a reporting solution that can rollup data from across this information store and conveniently distribute to team members and management?
BrightWork Reporter provides enterprise-wide SharePoint rollup reporting, giving all roles in the organization visibility into information stored in SharePoint. Unlike other products, Reporter delivers insightful dashboards and reports with SharePoint data from different lists across multiple sites. It takes advantage of many new SharePoint 2007 features including content types, site columns, multi-value fields, and list sub-folders. Reporter also uniquely supports graphing and charting. More about BrightWork Reporter
SharePoint Project Manangement Web Parts and Free Web Parts
Looking for free web parts, or web parts to manage projects on SharePoint?