Even if the entire project team is in the same building, it's quite the challenge to manage the project. You can imagine how much more challenging it would be if the project team is scattered. The challenges of collaborating and sharing information is growing in magnitude as teams become more and more geographically and inter-company dispersed. For example, a Marketing project that involves external web site designers and PR teams, or a Professional Services project that includes dispersed teams and customer representatives, or an Engineering project that includes outsourced developers. All these projects require management of distributed project teams.

Project software is a critical component in making distributed projects work, yet not just any project solution, as there are many available these days. The project software needs to serve the entire team, not only the project manager. It needs to be accessible and easy to use. It needs to be secure and still enable sharing.

As businesses become more dependent on a decentralized environment, they need to adjust correspondingly by putting in place new processes that will allow them to sustain, if not gain, more productivity. To enable these processes, an avant-garde project management software needs to be implemented, one that has been designed around the dispersed team.