Corporate IT and Project Management
Fill in the Gaps in your Corporate IT Systems
Make your Clients Happy!

While the emphasis of this site is on the communication / collaboration needs of small professional service firms and non-profit organizations that do not have any in-house IT capability, much of the discussion could be useful to the project management and IT departments of larger organizations.

Both departments are faced with requests for particular services from client departments that cannot be adequately addressed by the established IT systems, for example use of the corporate Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) is restricted to within the corporate firewall or for certain specific purposes, the web conferencing system requires substantial training and advanced booking, etc. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tools can often fill in these gaps at very low cost and with immediate deployment.

There are Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tools available to cover nearly every business function, with wide ranges of capability and price - many are free, but to realize the benefits it is necessary to spend the time making an effective assessment of your own needs finding the most appropriate tools, and sometimes re-engineering your work processes.

The necessary time is rarely available, so we provide an overview of the capabilities of some current SaaS software and how it can be used to streamline and virtualize your operations, an estimating spreadsheet for quickly estimating costs of alternatives, and an interactive web site for new product review, case studies and discussion.

Picking the right tools for the job doesn't have to be a process of trial-and-error. This site it is dedicated to the review of and exchange of experiences with SaaS tools for Group Collaboration, Project Management and Managing Formal Documents. It is free and relies on your participation for its effectiveness.

Please explore and enjoy.

Dermod Wood, PhD, PMP
Principal, Dermod Wood Associates LLC