Rapid
Uptake of Client Collaboration Feature Demonstrates Increasing
Importance of Integrated Planning With External Stakeholders SEATTLE, WA - (Marketwire) - March 10, 2010
-- LiquidPlanner,
online project management for today's collaborative
teams, today announced that more than 2,000 Project Portals have been
created since the company first launched the feature in June 2009. As
more teams migrate their project planning online, they have come to
recognize the value of extending their online project spaces to clients
and external stakeholders. Project Portals allows LiquidPlanner
subscribers to share essential project planning and scheduling
information with anyone who might be involved in a project. Project
Portals offer the ability to assign tasks, publish schedules, share
files, and exchange real-time status updates with external stakeholders
at no additional cost to the subscriber, all while maintaining a secure
online project collaboration and planning space for their internal
team.
"Project Portals have fundamentally transformed the way
we think about projects and collaboration in general," said Jason
Gutleber, Project Manager for
DataServ, a Software as a Service (SaaS)
provider of document and process automation solutions. "We regularly
work with dozens of clients who need up-to-the-minute insight into
what's happening with their projects. Before Project Portals, we relied
primarily on email to pass information back and forth. But with Project
Portals, their comments, feedback, and changes are fed directly into
our project management software, creating huge efficiencies for our
team."
For creative agencies, consulting firms, and professional
services organizations, Project Portals represent a simple yet powerful
way to collaborate online with external stakeholders in the context of
a larger project plan. Project Portals enable project owners to present
a pared down and fully customized view (including branding elements) of
a single project plan in a secure online environment. With just a
click, subscribers can easily share (or unshare) any facet of their
project with Portal Guests. Portals contain the most important
information about a project -- key documents and files, project
schedules, task lists and status, and the running dialogue of comments
about the project. Other tools, such as
Basecamp, offer ways to
collaborate with clients, but they're missing the underlying scheduling
capabilities of LiquidPlanner that professional teams require.
"Project
Portals have been one of our most popular features because smart teams
recognize that they need all constituents -- not just internally, but
also outside the company -- to be active and engaged in project
collaboration," said Charles Seybold, co-founder and CEO of
LiquidPlanner. "The key with Project Portals is that you can decide
exactly how much to share, so you control the message and can manage
clients with ease."
To see a video of how Project Portals work, visit: http://www.liquidplanner.com/video-project-portals/About LiquidPlannerLiquidPlanner
was founded in 2006 by Charles Seybold and Jason Carlson, former senior
managers at Expedia.com. LiquidPlanner was born from their vision to
create a new online project management paradigm, one that helps teams
manage complex projects in an ever-changing business landscape. Built
on a patent-pending scheduling engine, LiquidPlanner was designed to be
flexible, intuitive, and smart enough to support fast-moving teams of
all sizes and structures. The company is privately held and
headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.
More information can be found at
www.liquidplanner.comMedia Contact:Robert Nachbar
Kismet Communications
206-427-0389
Email Contact Source: LiquidPlanner