The eLink Project Management solution is an integrated system for managing and coordinating projects, tasks, companies, people, resources, documents, communications and timescales.

eLink enables your team to file, share, follow-up and update documents and information related to projects - each project or project-type can be customised. A project relates to a sales opportunity, a marketing campaign or any other activity. At any time, you can view its progress,  status and gain access to the related contacts, documents and tasks.

Projects are accessed from and linked to:

• People belonging to suppliers, partners, customers, subcontractors, with contact details, email addresses, notes etc, giving you the ability to email them all simultaneously from any document or action

• Users, who are:

• people within the organisation or within a broader project team who have authorised access on-line to information about the project

• people directly responsible for making the project succeed

• outside parties who may have an interest in the project and who are allowed a (restricted) view of progress

• Companies and other organisations, showing contacts (with job titles and links to other contacts); an audit trail of all actions and diary entries; an audit trail of emails and other documents; (other) projects; other companies they are linked to; plus telephone nos, website URL

• Diary entries with shared calendars for arranging meetings, booking, annotating re sickness or other absence,

• Diary entries for allocating resources to the project

• Actions and Tasks for controlling the project and for ensuring collaboration between the team members and that milestones are achieved

• Emails, documents and other files eg .msp, .ppt, cad, pdf, jpg, gif

• Timesheets, Sales opportunities, Sub-projects, parent projects

• Automatic notifications to relevant users attached specifically to an action, document folder, company, contact, or when it is amended or updated by another user, with a direct hyperlink to the record amended eg an action has been taken to the next stage and been passed to another user.

Each project and sub-project has its own date / user stamp for extra notes in the memo field and each client has a special set of data-tables for holding all the data that is critical to their own business process. The whole project can be organised so that you can use eLink TaskCentre™ with the information to create automatic emails, automatic (exception) reports, or whatever you need to improve the performance and effectiveness of the project team and the business process.

Documents can also be attached to each project and these document files can contain any type of electronic files from Word documents, Excel PowerPoint Images brochures etc , CAD files, Sound and audio files  to MS Project. The system stands on its own as your project management solution or, with the interconnection with other modules available within the eLink business management system, it can be used as a a more comprehensive business management solution.

Your initial solution can be amended and extended by you on-demand, live on your system at any time, it will grow and adapt to match how your organisation grows and adapts to your market needs.

The benefits of using the eLink Project Management solution are:

• Increased productivity from all team participants because the plan, all the elements that make up the project plan, all the players, all the documents and actions are immediately visible to every authorised person anywhere anytime, together with a multiplicity of hyperlinks to help users move around the information quickly and accurately

• The delivery period for a project has a higher probability of being achieved as all the Actions, Tasks and Documents are presented on-line by user or by group so that everyone knows what needs to be done, showing personal responsibilities and showing ‘deadlines’ for each action

• Improved productivity because there are shorter delays in updating other members on actions and achievements and also because elements of the workflow can be automated

• Improved productivity because it acts as “The Corporate Filing Cabinet”, one with electronic searching capabilities, always on-line, always available

• Risk protection because the data is all building the Corporate Knowledge Base, which is held in a resilient system maintained in a high security data centre

• Improved morale and commitment because it integrates outside people fully into the project team, leading to:

• Achieving planned project time frames

• Earlier sales invoicing

• Earlier cash received