Wednesday 27 May 2015

SaaS: The Best Approach to Project Management

Companies face greater pressure to perform, especially with the amount of competition that the market presents. Implementing a competitive business model is critical, so as to optimize operations for productivity and overall profitability. With all the billable projects you have lined up, how do you maximize employee function and extend resources, without overwhelming your manpower? A more pressing question would be how to do so when you are managing a multidisciplinary and geographically distributed team?

In project settings where communication and collaboration are major issues, it is critical to find a management strategy that offers more efficient solutions than instant messaging, social networks, and email, telephone, and synchronization tools. These solutions may address some collaboration issues, but may still not be as efficient in maintaining the synchronicity and consistency that projects require. What you need is an on-demand solution to fix all these challenges. Software as a service project management is gaining more traction than other proposed project management options because they offer great flexibility and address common issues, and limitations older methods have.

Some project management solutions enable you to send, store, and share files; others let you communicate. Others still, allow you to delegate tasks or do all these things within a single program. SaaS project management tool can provide you management flexibilities, while also giving all users (team members) access to project resources and details in real time, or whenever they need it i.e. your team can access your project management tool from anywhere if they have the resources available. You can even customize your SaaS project management tools as per your needs.

Also importantly, Software as a Service solutions save your budget from the high costs of in-house infrastructure, which other approaches often require. These tools usually only have light system requirements, making them suitable for small or large scale businesses.