Software Review: INNEO Prios Foundation
Project Management is ubiquitous in every design and manufacturing organisation. After all, time is critical in the delivery of services (design) or products (manufacture). With this in mind it's strange that time is rarely managed with anything more than the most rudimentary of tools.
While some companies are content to use Excel spreadsheets for project management, there are more intelligent tools available to assist with the process. Microsoft Project is hugely popular amongst our readership, but its desktop/client-based approach does not allow the distribution of vital data to a much wider audience. Microsoft's Project server technology solves this problem, but some believe this solution is too complex to be truly usable by the small to medium size enterprise. Into this fray comes INNEO, a company that's been in the world of design technology for the last 25 years, reselling both CoCreate and PTC products in Germany. INNEO has had a range of in-house developed Project Management tools for sometime, but these have suffered from similar problems to Microsoft Project. Prios Work is an entry-level solution designed for small teams, while Prios Enterprise focuses on the large scale organisation, with little in between, until now.
Team members can give task feedback, either in terms of a degree of completion or working hours, and also work on project discussions
A graphical resource for management and availability control
Resources can be entered into Prios Foundation by role and function
The project creation process step – a project manager is selected
The project creation process step – team members are chosen
A list of projects can be individually filtered, grouped, or selected
