In our ongoing quest for an integrated, cloud/Open Source hybrid Business Operating System, we need to pick and implement a tool for project/Program management.
Environment
Our organization has 8 separate companies, which we need to track project progress across all 8.
Basic Requirements
In order for this component to be successfull, it needs to satisfy the following requirements.
The contenders
Environment
Our organization has 8 separate companies, which we need to track project progress across all 8.
- For some companies, end users (project resources) will enter information themselves.
- For other companies and projects, a project co-ordinator will track progress manually from resource input.
- Task tracking can be on many levels, some projects will be quite detailed, other will be tracked at the milestone level only.
Basic Requirements
In order for this component to be successfull, it needs to satisfy the following requirements.
- Integrate with GApps for authentication.
- Integrate with GApps for document associations
- Support a fairly large number of project contributers/users (about 100).
- Handle multiple projects.
- Enable reporting on multiple levels, from detailed to executive overview.
- Enable resource and effort tracking.
- Be easy to use.
- Affordable (less than $500 annually, amortized across 3 years if necessary.)
- Have all oroject information available through a REST/JSON API.
- Have ability to update information through REST/JSON API.
- Enable assigning tasks to multiple users.
- Allow at least 2 levels of tasks.
- Have alerts for project activities.
- Have mobile access
- Support Gantt charting.
- Enable invitation of external partners for see project status, and update their project tasks.
- Social networks integration is a big plus
The contenders
The following applications are being considered.
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