June 2010 Clarizen’s CEO Explains how Clarizen Helps Companies Become Real-time EnterprisesTelex machines, stenographs and Dictaphones. These devices may seem like relics of a long forgotten age. But although many companies view themselves as embracing the future and adopting modern business practices and technology, it is their process and corporate cultures that expose them as seriously in need of a major introduction to the modern world of Real-time enterprises. Check out Avinoam’s Video Blog about taking companies to the next step of becoming real-time enterprises.
Sneak Peak into Upcoming Clarizen Release V4.8In the upcoming release you’ll see our unique roadmap feature improved to an all new level. Clarizen’s new Roadmap function is completely interactive with drag and drop capabilities, has enhanced views and controls, will be accessible from the Work Items module and will now be available as an external widget that can be plugged into your company’s portal or intranet, giving everybody real time visibility into the status of the selected projects. Clarizen’s new Personal Calendar allows each company to define its own calendar that incorporates working days policies, non-working days, special events, etc. Based on this calendar, each group, individual employee, or even project can have their own rules and exceptions. When assigning work and resources, scheduling will take all these different availabilities into account and produce a work plan based on them. Other features to look forward to in this upcoming release are recurring tasks, the ability to log in and associate with other credentials such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Google, indication of executable work items, and more!
Weather forecast: Nice and CloudyWinning the CODiE award last month for Best Project Management solution was a significant milestone for Clarizen. Less than three years since coming out with our first commercial solution, we have won the gold over incumbent vendors who have been in this space for over 10 years! A company’s age isn’t an indication of their success. Au contraire! Outdated platforms may hinder a company from their ability to ‘sense and respond’ (See latest related CEO Blog) to the frequent changes taking place with web applications being deployed in the enterprise. Salesforce.com, Success Factors, Workday are all great examples of companies who are pure cloud-based solutions reinventing their respective areas for the enterprise. Whereas last year’s CODiE gave high awards to companies with the hybrid model of ‘SaaS+On premise’, the finalists for this year’s Best PM Solution were purely cloud based solutions. The hybrid model has been voted out and SIIA was exactly on target to notice the shift and award those who have embraced the next level of enterprise solution. Special thanks to SIIA for doing their noble work of putting together these great endeavors. But where is Project Management going? What will the 2011 SIIA awards look like? We want to take this opportunity to nominate Clarizen for ‘Best Work Management Solution’ for 2011. We realize this category doesn’t exist yet but SIIA, maybe it’s time to create a category for Work Management since Project Management is naturally evolving into something much richer and robust.
Clarizen Tips & Tricks: iCalendar ShortcutsIt is hard to shed your old tools, we all like using our Calendar tools like Outlook. With the Clarizen iCalendar integration you don't need to replace your calendar, you can view and update your task progress directly from the solution you feel most comfortable with. Subscribing to an iCal feed of your tasks, managed resources tasks and/or projects of interest allows you to view these work items directly within your Outlook or similar calendar. Your tasks will be distributed on your calendar for the full duration of the task itself, thus allowing you to dedicate time to your daily work. To update task progress just double click on the relevant task and click on the “quick update of task progress” link located within the task details. In addition to task reporting, you can also email your task colleagues or managers and view vital work item information. Using the iCal integration is a great way to help organize your work day. Check out the iCal Video Tutorial
Success Story: 888 Adopts Clarizen to Improve Visibility into Resource Management“...With Clarizen I always have an up-to-date picture of current state of affairs. I know what each person on my team is doing today, and next week and the week after that,” said Lior, IT manager at 888holdings. “This lets me better reflect to management the actual costs and constrictions going on in my department and allows me, and management, make better decisions about resources, staffing and project load. We are significantly more productive since we started using Clarizen.” See how Clarizen helped 888 ramp up their project load with no additional resources.
Blog Posts| Two weeks ago I had a call with one of our prospects where he discussed the challenge he faces when scheduling his project plan according to the tight availability of his resources. I took the opportunity to demonstrate the way work planning work policy can be approached and how it can be done in Clarizen. | | May is turning out to be quite a good month for Clarizen and we are trying not to let it get to our heads. How often does a young company like ours get three prestigious awards in a single month? | | Clearly the writers of Lost did not use any project management software to plan and execute this outrageous project, leading to loads of loose ends, continuity errors and, according to many fans out there, a possible project failure. |
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