Advantages
Single User Interface
The end-user and the administrator can both access their registered
services and requests using the same ProBASE® user interface.
Support
ProBASE® reduces the client-side support of the IT department
because of being web-based. This gives the administrators
the opportunity to update the solution centrally. The only
activity on the client-side is the up-to-date of the web browsers.
The Open System Architecture gives the possibility to put
the new in-house developed services and applications on the
top of the ProBASE® system without any difficulties.
Scalability
ProBASE® can run on each major operating system, get datas
from each major databases and present the datas via each major
web servers on the market.
This feature of ProBASE® provides the customer a platform-free
scalability in their environment.
Load Balancing
The load balancing capability is supported by the scalable
architecture and the application server at the business logic
layer, which gives the possibility to share the load of the
web servers and database servers.
Security
The security for the data retrieve is based on the session
management. And the data exchange between switches and CorBASE®
system is based on SSL encryption.
Modules
Project
Management
This module is a mandatory basic module for the user's access
rights and task definitions and creating projects. The related
project documents can be down-/uploaded for sharing purposes
easily.
Corporate Directory
This module is storing the corporate-based datas for each
user. Instead of this module the exisiting HR module can be
migrated to the ProBASE® system and used easily. If there
is no such kind module, than this module is a mandatory basic
module as well.
Report & Alarm Management
The alarms can be user-defined or standard. The users can
be notified via web interface and/or e-mail about the alarms.
By leveraging ProBASE® Report Module, project executives and
managers can generate real-time multidimensional views, graphs
and reports to optimize the performance of their investments.
Using ProBASE®, organizations can finally think and run their
departments like a successful business (new release).
Capacity & Resource Planning
This module optimizes skill usage and ensures that all critical
resources are productively aligned with high priority projects.
By integrating all project areas in one software solution,
ProBASE® enables your globally-dispersed teams to communicate,
collaborate, report on and track project time, costs, progress
and team performance over a (secure) web connection.
Time & Cost Management
The Time Tracking module transcends beyond the uni-dimensional
timesheet to a complete, yet simple, team information capture
system. It was designed with a number of innovative timesaving
features, combining activity time tracking with the capture
of forecast information. Each assignment can therefore include
actual time and estimate to complete. Assignments can also
be constrained by including a forecast start and finish date.
This module provides project managers with the ability to
estimate capital costs and consumable budgets and time phase
them across the life of the project. Because this ability
is actually integrated into our enterprise portfolio/project
management solution, the organization benefits from a single
source of expense related project performance information.
To facilitate the capture and tracking of incurred and/or
committed expenses, ProBASE enables project participants to
enter expense
information against appropriate accounting charge codes using
a straightforward and intuitive expense entry and reporting
interface.
Risk Management
All projects and their steps can be analyzed via the risk management module.
Within this module all necessary contingency and mitigation plans can be entered.
Forum
The forum provides the user a platform to share the information
and ideas across the projects.
Complaint Management
The users can send their complains related to the ProBASE®
system to the administrator via web interface and tarck the
actions taken by the responsible persons.
Bulletin
The users can be informed about the chances/new features about
the ProBASE® system via bulletin module by the administrator
or other purposes by the responsible persons.
Document Management
ProBASE® provides document management, including document
brief description,creation, review and approvals. This management
system provides a logical, visual and intuitive document association
environment, making it easy to locate and retrieve pertinent
information. All documents aggregates to the associated project
element, and can be instantly viewed.
Private Information
Team members can also create steps to break down the task
into more manageable pieces. They can break down the required
effort for each step and report at that level of granularity.
This provides the team member with his/her own "To Do"
list for each project assignment. Each step can also include
actual time, estimate to complete and percent complete and
have the inter-project dependencies. Additionally there will
be AddressBook, Task and Calendar sub modules to synchronize
with the external messaging and collobration systems (new
release).
Synchronization
ProBASE® integrates with Microsoft® Project 2000 and 2002,
adding support for extensive multi-project portfolio scheduling
and leveling. At any time projects and tasks can be created
and distributed from within the repository. The project manager
can consolidate these tasks to benefit from a critical path-scheduling
engine using the schedule synchronization functions. By improving
on the project repository 'lock' feature, the system ensures
that no changes to the projects or programs are made during
synchronization. Except these there will be another migration
to the Microsoft® Exchange Server and its applications (new
release).
Architecture
ProBASE®
as web based solution needs a presentation layer formed by
the web servers. The N-Tier concept will cause to gather the
all business logic on the business logic layer, which reduces
the load on the data layer. This concept gives the flexibility
feature to the ProBASE® solution. The flexibility feature
supplies the platformfreedom support.
All submodules, which are running in the satellite concept
over the open system architecture -OSA- around the basic system,
can communicate with the outer world over the basic system.
The developed services can be combined with the ProBASE® Solution
via this OSA of the Basic System, which runs on the application
server.
System
Requirements
ProBASE®
can create accesses to each kind of the major SQL database
servers and present its dynamic pages via each kind of the
major web servers on the market.
ProBASE®
can run on the following operating systems; NT4.0, Windows
Server 200X , Linux and the major Unix variants on the market.
The hardware
requirements are varying related to the user and stored data
on-line. The hardware configuration will be finished right
after a pilot project on a location(s).