EU Projects and Research Program Solution

With multiple participants from different countries, high level of collaboration needs, strict adherence to timelines and accurate cost tracking, EU project and research program management can be a daunting task.

With many years of experience in closely working with European projects, Designtech’s flagship product ProjectCoordinator has all the ingredients to assist organization to manage their projects. The 100% web-based solution has been used by many organizations to manage their EU projects and research programs efficiently and successfully. Different modules of ProjectCoordinator are tailor made to specifically suite the EU project and research program management.

Project Planning for successful execution of the project
• Multi project portfolio and easy tracking of plans
• Aggregate view and status of all the projects in the Organizational Unit/Room
• Unlimited activities and sub-activities
• Activity progress updates
• Drag and drop activities
• 2-way Microsoft Project™ synchronization
• Work break down structure(WBS) code
• Real-time update of income and expenses
• Easy addition of resources to the activities
• Report filtering options
• Define metrics at a project/task level
• Gantt charts

Effective management of funds 
• Track actual cost and budgeted cost
• Cash flow management
• List and edit rates for Users/Resources and rates for Rooms/Projects.
• Manage Rates, Currencies, Clients/Partners, Cost columns functionality.
• Setup different customizable cost columns with order value in Cost columns

High level of collaboration
• Project briefing board gives a quick summary of Project related meetings, activities, news and event logs
• Project discussion board
• Meeting calendars
• Export meetings to your Microsoft® Outlook® calendar
• Integration with Microsoft Office Live Meeting for online meetings
• Project news management

Easily manage your documents and collaborate
• Share files and documents
• File attachments to projects activities
• In-built workflow capabilities
• WebDAV support
• ’Drag and Drop – Save to Server’ component
• Email document as a link
• Automatic file locking and version controlling
• Off-line Synchronization
• Map Letter drives

Effortless management of project related websites
• Manage your intranet as well as public web pages
• Built in Drupal modules as well as Independent WYSIWYG editor
• Easy implementation of Drupal themes
• Creation of pages using Drupal system
• Default themes for easy start-up
• Page objects for mirroring information on several places on your project homepage

Easy access and set-up
• Quick start with the hosted option
• Install on your own Linux or Unix server

Detailed reporting
• Reporting and controlling over the project’s full life cycle
• Intuitive data entry of distribution of work, budget, actual cost and partner information
• Role-based authorization scheme for project leader, work package leaders, and partners
• Provision to create custom reports *

* Feature currently under development