There is no doubt that businesses are dependent on their ability to deliver. However, it looks as if being able to meet deadlines is a matter of hit or miss. Most global companies are looking for ways to increase accountability. Without transparency and real time visibility there is no way to take decisions and being right or wrong is a matter of pure luck.

Last week the entire Clarizen U.S. team flew with Avinoam, our CEO, to Las Vegas to launch our new marketing campaign called "Kiss Microsoft Project Goodbye" at the Software 2008 / Interop conference.

Clarizen has been invited by Software 2008 / Interop organizers to present a session under the Enterprise 2.0 track taking place at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas at the end of the month.

Avinoam, our CEO, will jointly present with our Customer-turned-Partner 24-by-7 Service a great example how the new SaaS delivery model has created some great new business opportunities for small and nimble organizations.         Read Read more.....

Last week we had the opportunity to present Clarizen at the prominent Under The Radar event held annually on Microsoft campus. The event coincided with our major release of Clarizen 2.0, a state-of-the-art Web 2.0 application.

Clarizen 2.0 is for project teams seeking a project management solution that is easy for everyone to use BUT not at the price of giving up indispensable project functionality. Maintaining the precise balance between simplicity and fundamental functionality is in itself an art that is Clarizen's ultimate goal - as it is for many other vendors competing in this popular space.

With the closing of 2007 it is time to take stock of where you are in project management and look at where you want to be in 2008.  Some of the work we (at Collaborative Strategies) have been doing over the last few months is to look at the enterprise and how well it is adopting Collaboration 2.0 technologies (or Web 2.0 technologies moving into the enterprise).  It probably would not surprise you to know that these more traditional technologies (I will call these Web 1.0 for now) have wide spread adoption in the enterprise, but these new Web 2.0 technologies are not being adopted as quickly into the enterprise as many (not in IT) would wish. 

Newer SaaS PM tools promise not only less complexity and improved ease-of-use, but they often do not require a highly trained project manager to make the project succeed.