Organization Profile
PaperlinX is the world's leading fine paper
merchant and a manufacturer of high quality
communication and packaging paper.
With global headquarters based in Melbourne,
Australia, PaperlinX also operates their regional
management teams, including the offices of
PaperlinX Canada, in 26 countries around the
globe.
Challenge
The IT team at PaperlinX Canada needed to
transition to an
all-in-one, web-based
project management solution in order to
faciliate projects throughout multiple locations.
They’ve been using Microsoft Project for their
project management and felt that it provided
limited user access, was very costly to deploy
and difficult to learn and use.
“Using MS Project requires a certain degree of
knowledge.” says Lisa Giblin, IT Project
Manager at PaperlinX Canada. “We needed an
application which not only was
easy to
deploy, but
easy to access and
user-friendly.”
Solution
Determined to find a
cost efficient,
web-based,
hosted service, Lisa carefully
examined a number of project management
solutions.
“I can not even begin to tell you how many
project management applications we looked at
and saw demonstrations of.” she adds. “At the
end,
Easy Projects .NET proved to have what
we were looking for.”
Easy Projects .NET was able to meet all of the
criteria set out by Lisa during her search.
Available as
SaaS, it provides an esthetically
appealing interface which can be easily
accessed from any computer with an internet
connection.
Implementation
Easy Projects .NET was deployed in the IT
department of PaperlinX Canada, with plans to
rollout in other departments in the future.
“We were immediately impressed with Easy
Projects .NET.” says Lisa. “Because it is
web-based, our project team members could
immediately log into the system without
requiring the software to be installed on their
PC.”
Since Easy Projects .NET was chosen
as a
SaaS solution, it was deployed
and ready to use in just a couple of
hours. Lisa was also able to
save her
real project data she entered during
the online trial.
Outcome
Easy Projects .NET is now used to manage six
extensively large projects in the IT department.
The easy,
web-based access and the
user-friendly interface has enabled project
stakeholders such as the Director of IT and the
CIO, to
monitor and stay up to date on project
tasks.
“Easy Projects .NET has been promoting
greater project involvement from our entire
team” says Lisa. “Everyone can
track and
update project data which in turn has helped
bring our team members together, especially
when they are spread out in multiple locations.”
Easy Projects .NET provides a
flexible
licensing system to effectively manage users
within the set budget.
Transferrable user
licenses save money by allowing Lisa to add
and limit user access as needed.
“Easy Projects .NET has also
saved us a great
amout of time.” adds Lisa. “Sharing project
information between our team members is now
much easier, and since each team member can
now go into Easy Projects .NET and update the
data themselves, I can concentrate on more
important day-to-day project management
activities rather than spending my time on
simply updating tasks.”
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