APINI - enterprise project, information and resource management

Overview

APINI Project Management helps to control and manage projects executed in the organization. The module provides project portfolio management database and project controlling functionality with key performance indicators.

Features

• Single, integrated system to manage different kinds of projects (fixed price, continuous, support, outsourcing and others).
• Rich project database with aggregated reports (e.g. number of delayed projects).
• Work breakdown structure tracking with project planning, phases, milestones and tasks.
• Time tracking (timesheets) with online progress control.
• Full integration with resource management planning (e.g. information about resource workload, project assignments and resources becoming available).
• Project requirements and business objectives tracking.
• Change management database.
• Risk management database.
• Project event log.
• Project budget tracking.
• PMI, Prince2 and Balanced Scorecard compliance.

APINI project controlling and portfolio management - whitepaper

APINI project management - whitepaper

Overview

The information management functionality is contained in the Knowledgebase, Document Library and Portal modules. Their key functions include:

• Management of documents and articles.
• Information searching and user-collaboration functions.

Features

• Fully configurable portal pages allowing quick access to the most important information in the organization.
• Efficient distribution of information about documents and articles via e-mail, instant messaging and RSS channels.
• Simple procedure for content approval and publication.
• Support for document versioning and history.
• Document and article access control.
• Support for any document types (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, OpenOffice and others) with content indexing.
• User-configurable hierarchical structure for articles and documents.
• Simple and efficient, suggestion-driven search mechanism.
• Rich article and document filtering system.
• Keyword based indexing of articles.
• Graphical reports on knowledge collection progress.
• Support for multiple article and document attachments.
• Public content - accessible without login (for guests, interns and others).

Overview

The resource management module allows easy management of all company resources such as conference rooms, wall projectors, computer hardware and others. The human resource management module provides functionality for tracking project allocations, vacation, sick-leaves, travel and other activities - essential for project-oriented enterprises.

Features

• Timesheet and task tracking.
• Employee workload analysis.
• Employee calendar tracking (project work, vacation, sick leaves, etc.).
• Employment history tracking (e.g. what are the companies that my employees worked for before?).
• Position, department, supervisor, responsibilities and authorities database.
• Advanced employee search mechanism (e.g. an engineer with particular skills with no project assignment next month).
• Rich staff statistics reports (e.g. skill breakdown, project breakdown, experience summary and others).
• Easy to use, configurable calendar system with visualization of resource allocation (e.g. conference room reservations).

By default, APINI supports English and German user interface. Additional language packs are available upon request.

• Web browser
• Server system
• Database