Social Project Management for IBM Social Software

ProjExec is the award winning Social Project Management solution for IBM social collaboration platforms and cloud. Awarded Best Social Business Solution by IBM in 2011, ProjExec has a proven track record for making project experiences more social and more successful for IBM customers.

ProjExec seamlessly integrates robust project management tools and functionality within IBM's social software suite. This complete solution, powered by IBM - the recognized leader in enterprise social platforms - delivers a truly social project experience without sacrificing essential project management practices and rigor. ProjExec is today's most effective way to empower employees, lower costs and enable social style work in a business process context to deliver the true business value of Social Project Management.

Project management for everyone – increase employee, partner, customer and stakeholder participation and engagement in the project; build important social relationships between project team members and project stakeholders to simplify and improve access to project expertise and knowledge
Engaging user experience – experience Facebook-like ease of use for the project environment without sacrificing the robustness of enterprise project management solutions using the innovative Project Wall – an informal social forum for project teams
Save time and money – significantly reduce project coordination and administration and lower project operational costs with a solution that packages the power of Microsoft Project Server and Microsoft SharePoint Server within a solution that is far more affordable and cost effective; run within existing enterprise architecture and IT environment
Centralize and simplify – make all project communication readily accessible in real time or anytime across the social network with interactive micro-blogging for quick and easy updates that make status reporting intuitive and effortless
Improve productivity – bring the social project experience to the place where people work today in the enterprise social collaboration environment fully integrated with email, calendars, mobile devices and the tools people already use to accomplish work
Increase visibility – put project activities and related information within easy reach to enable organizations to KNOW what people DO and how successfully they are doing it
Improve communication and customer satisfaction – enable important connections that are instrumental to project success, increase discovery and awareness, reduce lag time between tasks, enhance stakeholder feedback and interaction

ProjExec Editions

ProjExec is available in two editions, featuring a modular architecture and supported on a variety of platforms to meet the needs of any size and type of business.

ProjExec Express – essential scheduling, tracking and project management tools and a project wall seamlessly integrated with your choice of IBM Lotus Quickr, IBM Connections or IBM SmartCloud for Social Business. Complete with socially-enabled visual drag and drop Gantt charts, cross-project/multiple project support with alerts, dashboard, portfolios and more. ProjExec Express ships in standard with five connectors.

Email client connector with sidebars for Lotus Notes/iNotes and Microsoft Outlook
Lotus Notes Calendar connector integrates project tasks within Notes Calendar
Mobile connector for iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Nokia and Windows phone
IBM Sametime connector for presence awareness and real-time project communications (on-premise only)
IBM Connections connector for Quickr users

ProjExec Enterprise – complete professional social project management and collaboration available on premise for multiple IBM and J2EE platforms. All the features of the Express edition plus five modules adding powerful project management functionality.

Issue Management
Change Management
Time Management
Configurable Reporting
Financial Management

Enterprise modules can be purchased separately as add-ons to ProjExec Express.

Platform	ProjExec Express	ProjExec Enterprise
ProjExec for IBM Lotus Quickr Domino^*
ProjExec for IBM Lotus Quickr Websphere Portal^*
ProjExec for IBM Connections^**
ProjExec Live for IBM SmartCloud (SaaS)

* ProjExec for Quickr requires Quickr 8.5.1 for Domino or Quickr 8.5 for WebSphere Portal
** ProjExec for Connections requires IBM Connections 3.0.1+, 4.0+.

Social and Robust

The list of social project management features in ProjExec is everything you would expect in a robust, professional project life cycle management solution. ProjExec augments the project management discipline with social software, integrating powerful project management tools, processes and business processes with intuitive and easy to use social and collaborative features. Project management functionality is not compromised; it is enhanced with powerful social software that engages everyone in the project management process.

While ProjExec works with other planning tools (upload/download to publish and collaborate on plans from Microsoft Project, Primavera and more), all the advanced project management tools needed are self-contained in ProjExec. ProjExec is the only tool required for complete social project management. Learn more

Supported Operating Systems

ProjExec runs on the following operating systems (both 32-bit and 64-bit):

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2008
RedHat and SUSE Linux
IBM AIX on IBM Power
IBM System i (iSeries)

When deploying ProjExec on IBM middleware platforms, ProjExec is strictly supported on IBM-supported operating systems and version levels.

Supported Database Middleware

ProjExec runs with any of the following relational databases:

IBM DB2 UDB 9.1+
IBM DB2 UDB for iSeries R6.1+
Oracle 11g+
SQL Server 2005 and 2008
Apache Derby - embedded with ProjExec for Quickr Domino, but not recommended for production purposes