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Project excellence for you & your organisation

PROJECT in a box is used by individuals and corporates alike to provide consistent methodology based project management control and improved delivery.  Standards based including PRINCE2™ and designed to be quick to implement and to provide powerful yet flexible features normally only associated with premium rate systems, but for a price any company can afford!

So now you can give your project teams the support they deserve!

PROJECT in a box makes professional Project, Programme, Sales and Portfolio management an achievable solution for individuals and all types and sizes of organisations. Working closely with our extensive user community of well over three hundred organisations we have, in the  PROJECT in a box family, delivered project management software with exceptional functionality and flexibility whilst retaining great value. In summary the key features are:

• Shared and consistent access to project documents and other information from a central source provided securely over a local network or the Internet to provide consistent implementation of your chosen methodology.
• The Complete authentic PRINCE2™ methodology and P2ABC our unique prescaled lighter methods more suitable for your smaller projects.
• Our Proposal Preparation Process (PPP) which enables you to provide the same level of control to your sales process as your projects.
• Fully flexible project templating and on the fly tailoring of processes and documentation subject to permissions, allowing for a wide range of controlled personalisation and customisation choices as well as making it the platform of choice for organisations implementing their own custom methodology.
• Portfolio management capability including the optional use of the Managing Successful Programmes (MSP)™ methodology.
• Configuration management, version control and audit tools.
• Simple and flexible user based permissions management.
• Project dashboards, RAG, KPI, Highlight and management reporting tools.
• Tools for the key project controls Risk, Issue, Quality as well as Finances and Plan.  The reporting includes automated inclusion of the summary analysis from these core tools.
• Email notification of user activities.
• Project status tracking tools.
• Extensive Microsoft Outlook integration.
• Microsoft Project, Project Server and EPM integration for reporting.

The first release of PROJECT in a box was the subject of a very good review (941Kb) by Steve Cotterell in Project Manager Today magazine (Jan 2006 Edition). The review concludes with the opinion "I was impressed by PIAB-PE, it does what it sets out to do and takes a lot of the pain out of PRINCE2™".

Subsequently Project Manager Today also published a case study of PROJECT in a box in use with Toshiba ('Practical PRINCE2 Implementation at Toshiba' - Dec 2006) which highlights its use in mid size project teams with mixed levels of PRINCE2™ experience.

PROJECT in a box has developed quickly and we have just recently released version 2.2 which has loads of new featured including drag and drop file management, extended check in options and new customisation options including interface colour, to see the list of new features check out the May2008 Newsletter.

Latest News - Available since late September 2008 version 2.3 provides exciting new features including customised version numbering and project Attribute/RAG display.  Use the link to find out what is coming next in the development pipeline, or if there is a feature you would like to see, just let us know.

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