Here is what a few of our clients had to say …
As a CIO, the fact that it was an ASP model was appealing to me. We did not have to do anything but ask I.S.EDGE to activate our account, and we were live that day.
Chief Information Officer
We chose The Project Network because it allows us to keep project scope, descriptions, milestones, etc., all in one central location. We knew at the time that we chose this system that we would be expanding outside of the domestic United States, so the fact that it is Web-based was a key part of our decision. After a year of experience with the application, we have doubled our user base, including international users. The latest version of The Project Network proves that I.S.EDGE takes user input seriously.
Director of Project Management Office
We began using The Project Network on all our technical projects but soon discovered that it was useful in our corporate work as well. Today, we use it for our strategic plan, our marketing plans and with our various joint-venture partners. It’s been a great help to keep all the project-related documentation and, of course, keeping everyone on track with the overall objectives. The service has been great, and the company has been very responsive to our needs and suggestions.
Executive
The Hospital Integrated Delivery System implemented The Project Network to manage a large system-wide project. The project was comprised of 13 work teams and more than 100 people across the health-care system, including a hospital, seven community health centers, 43 physician practices, dozens of ambulatory clinics, a home health service, and an HMO. Utilization of team charters, meeting minutes, milestones, and detailed individual next steps allowed all information to be stored in one place for availability across the system. Automated e-mail was utilized to send reminders of newly assigned and overdue work, and one overall project status was generated for the executives.
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
The Project Network is a tool that helps the manager adapt to the changing circumstances of a large system implementation project on a real-time basis and provides the capabilities required to ensure that the project is completed successfully. A perfect example of this is the management of issues. During the course of any project, the project manager is constantly confronted with issues that must be resolved. Typically, these are logged, assigned to someone to work them, and a date assigned when it must be resolved. When that date arrives, the manager finds out that it hasn’t been resolved, and it is now critical. The Project Network provides the ability to capture interim “next steps” for issues that can be tracked and monitored to ensure that the activities required to resolve the issue are being accomplished on a timely basis.
Project Manager
The really nice thing that resource planning has done for us . . . is that now hospital administration, not IS, is accurately focusing all of its IT resources on the highest priority projects based on our business strategy.
Chief Information Officer
As a project manager with 20 plus years of experience, I didn’t think that The Project Network could possibly offer more benefits than the “classic” project management tools that I preferred. But, within two days, I came to realize the value of The Project Network. The Project Network offers a comprehensive suite of tools that include a well-defined statement of work, project governance, scope definition, milestone/deliverable/task linkage, financial and resource time budget, meeting management, a central documentation repository, and more. Simple “my work” views are aimed at ease of use for task-oriented team members, while dashboard views offer functional and executive management the 30,000-foot view with drill-down capability. This tool helps me manage my time and projects much more effectively. Yeah for The Project Network!
IS Project Manager
Solving problems, developing alternative solutions, and making decisions on large projects are accomplished in working meetings by many teams and committees. Tracking the decisions, outstanding issues, as well as next steps, are critical to ensuring that the project moves forward and stays on track and within scope. Formerly, we used traditional modes to track and summarize these topics, but we found it labor-intensive and clumsy.
By having all levels of the project teams (from the executive decision makers to the smallest work teams) use The Project Network as the project management tool, reporting decisions, tracking issues, ensuring accountability for action items and reporting at an executive level was accomplished in a complete and effective manner.
The key to success was ensuring that the tool was used at all levels of the project. Having the project decisions and issues stored and easily reportable became valuable, even after the completion of the project. In a particularly complex project with many stakeholders including government entities, when key decisions were questioned (e.g., why, what was the rationale, who attended the meeting), we were able to respond quickly and provide accurate accounting of how decisions were made even two years later. I am pleased to report that with the help of The Project Network, this project came in on time and on budget.
Account Manager