Project Sites in Microsoft Project Server 2010 - What is missing?

Project Sites in Microsoft Project Server 2010 - What is missing?
In many of our Project Server 2010 Implementations we see that people are not using project sites to the full extent. Most store documents, risks and issues - but usually that's all.

Is that a lack of knowledge how to use sites? Is that a lack of functionality? What is missing there to make Project Site an important and useful instrument for team collaboration?


In next posts I will try to provide a series of posts and videos abount working with Project Sites and Templates, customization and management.

7 products released

7 products released
We would like to announce availability of 7 products for Microsoft Project Server 2010 developed by FluentPro:

  • FluentPro PDP Manager
  • FluentPro View Manager
  • FluentPro Lookup Manager
  • FluentPro Project Dashboard
  • FluentPro Status Report
  • FluentPro Timesheet Reports
  • FluentPro Publisher
Please visit www.fluentpro.com/products.html to see videos on each product and learn more information.

Products are available for purchase from our website.

Cloud. When Project Server and SharePoint will be there?

Cloud. When Project Server and SharePoint will be there?
Found interesting article - http://www.forbes.com/sites/joemckendrick/2011/12/14/10-ways-cloud-computing-will-disrupt-our-businesses-in-2012/

I was surprised by "cloud first" approach for government. This is extremely good push for the cloud companies and if government goes to cloud - big companies will follow as well into both private and public clouds, and we will see decreasing number of on-premise deployments. The problem I see is that every company uses "cloud" as they understand it..and often it is just a marketing buzz for the "reshaped" old infrastructure.

In our practice - we tired of on-premise deployments, permissions, limited access, non-standardized configuration and troubleshooting all that. We want to go to some centralized and standardized model - it will make our life easier and products more stable.

Microsoft goes there with Office365. The question is - when the full versions of Project Server and SharePoint will be cloud-enabled? Will happen? And another big question - what would be the limitations for the products and platform? (current SharePoint in Office 365 is ugly and very limited). Time will show...

2 more product videos available - FluentPro Publisher and FluentPro View Manager for Project Server 2010

Today, we've prepared 2 more videos for our products:


  • FluentPro Project Publisher - software that allows to re-save and re-publish all or selected projects

  • FluentPro View Manager - this is an update (v.2.0) of our existing product that allows to customize Project Server 2010 and link views to EPT and user security group membership and define default views to load. 


FluentPro Project Publisher





FluentPro View Manager



Enjoy - and we would be happy to hear your feedback!

Merge 2 Project Server 2010 PWA with help of FluentBooks

Today, I've recorded sample video to demonstrate how to merge configurations from 2 Project Server 2010 PWA with help of our product - FluentBooks. Enjoy the video!




If you have any questions / suggestions - let us know, we would love to hear your feedback.

FluentPro PDP Manager video

Please find short overview of FluentPro PDP Manager, software that allows to customize look and feel of fields on your PDPs.

You can control:

  • - Title
  • - Font, color and style
  • - Visibility in edit / view mode
  • - Read-only state




Software will be available for purchase starting 16th of December on www.fluentpro.com

Updates and new products availability announcement

Updates and new products availability announcement
FluentPro Software, Inc (www.fluentpro.com) , developer of products and tools for Microsoft Project Server 2010 is happy to announce availability of updates of our existing products and release of new products for Project Server 2010 that will become available for purchase during next week:

Updates for existing products:
FluentPro Status Report
Automate project status report generation. Capture all informaiton in project server and send ready report to your manager in seconds.
Change Log:
  • We've updated the look and feel of report
  • New installer


FluentPro Project Dashboard
Visualize your project status and key metrics
Change Log:
  • Updated the look and feel of report
  • New installer


FluentPro TimeSheet Reports
Users can print their Timesheets and assignments; Project managers can do the same for themselves and their teammates.
Change Log:
  • We've updated the look and feel of report
  • New installer


FluentPro Lookup Manager
Software tool to synchronize Project Server 21010 Lookup tables with SharePoint lists;
Change log:
  • Software is converted into SharePoint job instead of utility that was run on schedule with task manager.
  • New installer


FluentPro View Manager
Ability to define rules for Schedule PDP which view to load automatically depending on EPT and user Group membership.
Change log:
  • Update includes support of user group membership
  • New installer


FluentPro Publisher
Publish all your projects for accurate and up-to date reporting
Change log:
  • New installer

New Products
FluentPro PDP Manager
This is our brand new new product that our beta-testers LOVE; Now you have full control to control look and feel of your PDPs: change field name captions, descriptions, colors, font size and visibility of fields on PDP with support of edit mode / view mode and rules that can be defined to support different EPTs.

FluentBooks
As mentioned in previous blog post, our product - FluentBooks - software to manage migration, merge and comparison of Project Server 2010 configurations will be released for limited Beta-2 testing. If you are interested - we still have 2 open slots.


We will make additional announcement on day you can purchase products from our website.