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REVIEW: Two SAAS offerings are poised to shake up
the way we manage projects
By Jim Rapoza G WEEK LABS
One of the jobs most important to competition, Project has remained the biggest
business, and especially the business player in project management, and its file format
of technology, is the management of is a de facto standard.
projects and tasks. But there has also been surprising resistance to
In pretty much every business, groups of change in project management. Over the years, we’ve
employees and outside contractors need to work seen many interesting applications that attempted to
together to complete essential projects. And, given bring new methods and processes to project manage-
the importance of projects, one would think proj- ment, tying projects in to bigger and more collabora-
ect management would be one of the most vibrant, tive environments such as groupware systems and
competitive and important fields in software. But, corporate portals. While these systems gained some
instead, in many ways it has become a stagnant converts, they failed to really change how many proj-
backwater of enterprise applications. ects were managed, leaving many users to return to
To a certain degree, this is due to the success the familiar world of Gantt charts and Project.
of Microsoft’s Project. Despite many years of Recently, we’ve seen [CONTINUED ON PAGE 40]
