My Project Desk

My Project Desk (MPD) is an online Project Management & Collaboration solution developed in PHP/ MySQL by Konstant Infosolutions. They describe My Project Desk as "... a nice place for managing projects & interacting with employees. Take MPD as your personal assistant...!" As of today, MPD if proprietary and is used by Konstant with its clients only to keep track of the projects being developed by Konstant for its clients. The clients are provided with access to MPD so as to keep track of the tasks assigned to developers and post any query or bug. Find the comprehensive list of the features of MPD here.

My Project Desk runs on the servers of Konstant Info Solutions and the clients have the facility to directly interact with the members of the team which is working upon their projects.

• Discussing details
• Generatin To-Do lists
• Milestones
• Sending messages
• Sharing files
• Tracking projects
• Writing on-board for Future Reference

Zoho Office Suite

The Zoho Office Suite is a free & Web- based online office suite containing word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, note-taking, wikis, CRM, project management, invoicing and other applications developed by AdventNet Inc., an India based company. It was launched in 2005 with a web-based word processor. Additional products, such as spreadsheets and presentations were incorporated later into Zoho. Although some applications, such as Zoho CRM and Zoho Projects, require a fee to be used, Zoho maintains that it has a commitment to "maintaining a free tier of entry-level applications with free registration."

Zoho uses an open Application Programming Interface for its Writer, Sheet, Show, Creator, Meeting, and Planner products. Google Gears, an application developed by Google that "enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to your web browser." It also has plugins into Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, an OpenOffice plugin, and a plugin for Firefox.

The Zoho Office Suite can be used together with the Project Management tool & CRM to manage the employess and their tasks in a better way. Zoho can be installed on your servers as well for a fee.

dotProject for Project Management

dotProject is a web-based, multi-user, multi-language, open-source Project Management application designed in PHP & MySQL. It's free for any uses and is maintained by an open community of volunteer programmers across the globe. The developers who started with dotProject are Adam Donnison, Karen Chisholm, Gregor Erhardt, Ivan Peevski, Eamon Brosnan & Benjamin Young. It started as an open-source replacement to Microsoft Project and has the following features:

• Projects and Tasks
• Companies, Departments and Contacts
• ToDo lists
• Resources
• Forums
• Gantt charts
• Access control via ACL
• Reporting
• History of all activities
• Calendar
  

Performance Now

Performance Now is a tool to manage employees and their reviews. The software makes it easy for the employer to write complete & concise employee reviews which provide the kind of feedback the employees need to perform & succeed. Performance Now helps the managers to be better coaches, mentors and counselors for employees.

Performance Now has the complete vocabulary required to be an effective coach, mentor & counselor and motivate the employees. The user can choose from the list of performance elements and rate the employee's performance on a high-to-low scale with concise supporting text which will translate the observation of the manager into meaningful words.

With Performance Now the managers will be able to:

• set, track and measure goals
• utilize new management oriented elements, tools & coaching ideas
• generate meaningful review text automatically, based on input
• use simple design features to create their own reviews
• spot legally sensitive wordings & language
  

My Shift Manager

My Shift Manager in an online, simple and easy to use Staff Scheduling Software that is accessible anytime & anywhere via the Internet connection. You have 24/7 access to manage your employees, their schedules & availability and track the labor costs while your employees have access to request their time off, request shift changes and view their schedules. My Shift Manager is password protected and fully secure through secure layer HTTPS. There is no need to buy a software and no botheration for updates & installation. My Shift Manager is available for a trial version so that you can evaluate it before you buy. You can sign up for the trial version at www [dot] myshiftmanager [dot] com.

Some of the featues of My Shift Manager are:

• Fully Automated Employee Scheduling
• 100% Web-Based
• Improves Communication
• Easy to Use
• Calculate Labor costs on weekly basis
• Calculate Labor cost By Job or By Employee
• Maintain employee information & availability
• Technical Support available
• Add Unlimited Employees
• Add Unlimited Jobs per Employee
• Assign jobs to a single employee or a department
• Start your work-day from any day of the week
• Assign unique user name & password to each employee
• View multi week schedule
• Print Schedule
• Download schedule in PDF or EXCEL
• Send text and email messages to employees using myShiftManager
• Maintain employee profiles