Review of Daptiv (eProject)

Review of Daptiv
by Preetam Kaushik (22,785 pts )
Edited & published by LSYoungblood (1 pt ) on May 19, 2009
4

Daptiv provides a wholly effective approach for teams separated by geography and organization boundaries to share tasks, events, messages, and documents and the interface is very intuitive and user-friendly.

Daptiv (eProject) - The ToolRating Good

Daptiv (formerly eProject) is a web-based proprietary project management program recommended highly by a number of project management professionals. This tool has immense potential when it comes to project collaboration since one can use it fairly and effectively for team synchronization across the whole domain of a project management system. First time users may find it difficult to get familiar with its functioning, features and capabilities but once they learn, they realize how effective and useful it is. And above all, installation is easy and requires no additional effort since the whole project management set up is hosted by Daptiv online.

Salient features of Daptiv (eProject)Rating Good

  • Daptiv (eProject) has a dashboard is which is fully customizable through which users can conveniently place links and project related information and import other result oriented data.
  • Contact manager facility to enable quick sorting through name, organization and e-mail Id as well as a search function.
  • The provision of timesheets to monitor and manage time spent by individual team members and this information can be used in tandem with accounting software.
  • The check–in and check–out provisions in document management facilitate controlling of documents in broader perspective. This is achieved by imposing some restrictions on the documents for making the usage of whole system non-redundant. It also helps in editing of documents and giving them final touch. In short, provides the security for essential project credentials.
  • Easy to install with a plethora of self-help options including FAQs, manual and tutorials
  • Daptiv (eProject) helps the user to assess the workload for each member and assign that work in a manner so that no one is overworked or under-worked.
  • The most outstanding feature is the collaboration and resource management facilities whereby one can not only raise issues, but can easily track and measure the progress of such issues
  • Through Daptiv (eProject), one can notify of the progress of the project or the updates on project issues through effective email system.
  • Daptiv (eProject) allows all the project participants to keep track of project status effectively and in real-time.

Free and paid versionsRating Average

For purposes of simple coordination and document sharing by small teams, the user can avoiding spending money as the free version should suffice. However, the free version of Daptiv excludes features like instant messaging, text-based or voice-based chat capabilities and conferencing facilities. Further, the free version does not interface with desktop software such as Outlook Express, Microsoft Project or Outlook. The free version is password-protected and the hosted enterprise solutions use SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption for additional security. daptiv Screenshot from Daptiv Website

The enterprise version of Daptiv however offers different solutions that are fee-based. Apart from all the functions of the free version, the enterprise version is compatible with Outlook, Project, vCard, vCalendar, and XML. These solutions are available in any of the three ways - a standalone system hosted by the client or a system permanently hosted by Daptiv or on a subscription-based system hosted by eProject. Fees are based on the bandwidth required and the number of users.

Final commentsRating Good

There is no denying that Daptiv is the much sought-after product in collaborative business software. It is said that Daptiv’s on-demand solutions support employees’ day-to-day interaction and collaboration by considerably reducing the complications of managing multiple teams, projects and tasks.

Daptiv offers project management team total visibility and control of the entire project and portfolio management as well as the ability to monitor and measure project progress bearing in mind the pre-determined business priorities. Daptiv allows the user organization to effectively manage some key business processes like tracking requests, time management, risk management and effective collaboration across teams.

Reference and More Info

To know more about this product visit Daptiv Website.