Citex UK- Research.org

Oliver Jones- CEO

How do you manage multi-organisational projects across Europe?

The problems Citex UK faced

Citex UK needed an online collaboration tool which required minimum engineering costs. It also needed to be accessible to people of different backgrounds, who could take advantage of ProjectProgress’s transparency.

“We needed an intuitive and reliable mechanism to support coordination and the development of deliverables as part of an EU project that includes 14 partners, including Citex UK, 7 other universities throughout Europe and 4 commercial partners. We also needed a cross-platform tool with zero maintenance requirements and which would appeal to a diverse community of users including academics, researchers, software engineers and project managers,” says Oliver Jones, CEO Citex UK

How ProjectProgress helped

Citex UK began using ProjectProgress three years ago, primarily as a document repository. They used our version management control to avoid duplication issues.

“ProjectProgress was mainly used for document management and for sharing applications that were developed as part of the project. It has been an extremely versatile resource for developing documents that required input from multiple project partners, and the versioning functions were particularly useful in this context,” comments Oliver Jones, “but, in this case, the project's objective is to develop argumentation models and technologies.”

ProjectProgress made the collaboration tasks for the development of project deliverables transparent. We also enabled Citex UK to focus on project issues of primary concern and easily bring together a diverse project community working on a variety of computing platforms.

“ProjectProgress has allowed us to maintain a high level of shared project awareness and has given us the confidence that the reasons for which we subscribed to this tool were reliably fulfilled,” continues Oliver, “everybody found ProjectProgress very intuitive and the use of on-line documentation and help functions was sufficient to support both regular users and administrators in their tasks.”

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