VEMS^TM can be used with your executives, managers, project team members, clients and vendors to gain control over the projects at hand and how you communicate business objectives. It provides a single access point for collaborating teams to manage their communication and information flow within an online community environment. The information created from these communities is structured for efficient retrieval, and the applications are integrated to make the user interface simple and straightforward.

Key features include:

• Manage your business as a portfolio of programs and projects
• Manage geographically dispersed teams
• Improve communication using the latest Internet technologies.
• Executive Information Center
• Document storage & document flow management
• Resource tracking and time reports
• Custom workflow design
• Tasks and timelines tracking and monitoring
• ISO 9001 procedures and documentation support
• Discussion forums
• Management, project, resource and billing reports
• Automatic notifications of task assignments, system updates and changes to your community
  
• Accessible anywhere and at any time through the Internet
  
• User defined access levels for information security
  
• Modularity of system architecture
  
• Cost efficiencies
  
• Earned Value Analysis

Virtual Enterprise Management System^TM is written entirely in Java and it is based on an open model to allow existing or newly customized applications to be integrated as a seamless component into the community. This open model approach also circumvents the issues of system compatibility in cross-organizational communication. VEMS^TM is a revolutionary solution for enterprise business/project management. The complete application suite allows the enterprise community the first solution that integrates corporate information, proposals, best practices and analytic project data.

Community participants can include geographically dispersed internal team members, customers, suppliers, consultants/contractors or any other party involved in managing one or more business relationships. The infrastructure provides industry-leading capabilities in managing information transfer between all community participants.

VEMS^TM provides a framework for defining your own company specific tasks, supporting you to follow the ISO 9001 required procedures and documentation: Offer and Contract Management, Product Design, Product Identification and Tracing, Process Control, Product Inspection and Testing, Error Management System, Quality Assurance Requirements.

VEMS^TM is designed as a modular system. Accordingly, the core technology referenced above is complemented by a suite of tools that can be utilized for the specific needs of the community. A VEMS^TM community can evolve over time to fit the exact needs of the users. The community can expand to include thousands of users for managing long-term relationships or can be utilized for small, short-term projects. It can be used as a collaborative interface to the legacy systems of an enterprise.

In sum, Virtual Enterprise Management System^TM provides an organized method of managing business information and activities within collaborative communities, following the guidelines defined by broader knowledge and workflow management initiatives. It empowers the community participants to make quicker and more informed business decisions, which result in positive effects to the bottom line. It also creates significant cost and time efficiencies by eliminating many of the issues surrounding an increasing geographically dispersed workforce.

Executives:

• Executives get a top-level overview of project status in the Executive Information Center (EIC).
  
• A consistent way to supervise and allocate resources for multiple programs and projects.
  
• VEMS^TM will also allow for "Drill Down" detailed views for management scrutiny.
  
• The EIS system is incorporated into the enterprise business methodology and is a key productivity tool for executives, CEO's and other management.
  
• Integration of project and resource documents to provide easy access to all of the pertinent information your executives need to make strategic business decisions.
  
• Management tools offer tremendous "decision support" value for the organization.
  
• Make all your team players more productive and cost-efficient.

Project Managers:

• Configure your custom workflow suitable for your business process. In this framework define new projects, tasks, schedules and assign resources. You can use projects created in your favorite project management software (MS Project, Project Scheduler etc.) or define them in Virtual Enterprise Management System^TM, which lets you define projects and tasks and assign resources from anywhere on any platform through the Internet or your Intranet. Or let the engine automatically define tasks according to your defined workflow, and assign the resources depending on their roles and workload.
  
• View enterprise and project resource and availability: You can see the planned and actual workload and the availability of your resources with a click of the mouse. Now you'll know if you have the capacity to take on that extra project. Simple project and resource filters let you select exactly the data you want to see.
  
• Keep people talking with threaded discussions and project bulletin board: Participate in threaded project discussions on a task-by-task basis. This lets you create a virtual 24-hour day, with efficient communication independent of geographic location. Discussion boards lets project team members post important notes for all to see and discuss. And you can use the Announcements tool to schedule meetings.
  
• Report generator continuously updates numerous reports: The report generator continuously queries the project database and writes reports in HTML format to your Project Community. Numerous reports give you up-to-the-minute information on a wide variety of topics and allow a wide variety of HTML reports to be made available to your team with the touch of a button.
  
• Automatically notify resources when they are assigned or removed from tasks.
  
• Publish your project schedules on your VEMS^TM community: Virtual Enterprise Management System^TM puts project data where it should be: at the user's fingertips. Anybody can use Virtual Project Communicator to see which projects and tasks they are assigned to and how much time they are to spend working on tasks, even across multiple projects.
  
• Report actual hours spent on tasks: Managers use VEMS^TM to view planned and reported actual hours of project team members. Submitted hours can be accepted and written to the database or rejected for rework.
  
• Display task descriptions and links dynamically to your team: Link web pages to your tasks so everybody knows what to do. The task outline and other information are easily accessible through you community.
  
• Use your existing project management software to plan your projects. Use your favorite project management software (Project Scheduler, Microsoft Project, PS7 etc.) to create your project schedule and assign the resources. VEMS^TM imports them directly into your Community.
  
• Ensure that your project is ISO 9001 conformant, by following the basic procedure directly embedded in VEMS^TM workflow.
  
• The Change Management module allows keeping track of all the changes your system goes through, ensuring that the appropriate persons have approved them, before they are implemented.
  
• Connects to any major database server directly with JDBC
  
• Error & Test Management tool is a very power tool in assisting the development and testing teams in managing test cases, test suites and error databases.
  
• Control access to project data and define user preferences: You can define VEMS users and assign roles to them. Each user has a password, resource ID and access rights. These determine which project data users may see and manipulate. Every project team member can use the project links to access the project Web sites. Virtual Enterprise Management System^TM makes sure that users only see the information they may see, but have quick access to the information they need.

Team Members:

• An easy solution to get project team members to interact together and exchange information in a single "meeting place" to keep your team members closer.
  
• A project management tool that's simple to use and won't require training, experience in project management, or Internet experience.
  
• Easy access to project information and assigned tasks.
  
• System Requirements Repository and Tracking Mechanism through Change Management module
  
• Time reports interface that is simple and straightforward.
  
• Notifications of assignments and new information.

New features like:

• Configuration and Customization Services (CCS);
  
• Risk Control Management (RCM);
  
• Customer Relation Management (CRM);
  
• Global Search Engine (GSE);
  
• Audio/Video Conferencing (AVC);
  
• Discussion Forums Services (DFS);
  
• Instant Messaging Services (IMS);
  
• Web E-mail Services (WES);
  
• Chat and White-board Services (CWS);
  
• Internet Telephony Services (ITS);
  
• Multimedia Communication Services (MCA);
  
• Text To Speech conversion (TTS);
  
• Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) Engine.
  will be added in the next releases, as the VEMS^TM is a very flexible concept.
  

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