Features

Project overview

InLoox can be organized as required - by customer, internal and external contacts (e.g. stakeholders, project managers and team members), department and project status. Information can be called up quickly and without fuss, for example while on the phone.

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Activity and time recording

InLoox supports the simple recording of activity and effort for all project steps, for example from the Outlook calendar or inbox. A complete activity history can thus be produced for each project.

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Project planning

Project phases, work packages and milestones can be assigned to staff or other resources. Project members can see dates and milestones in their Outlook calendar or personal task list. Effort and cost estimation functions, plus follow-ups, are also included.

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Document management

Straightforward document management in Outlook thanks to InLoox: Order and clarity for all a project's documents. Outlook mailboxes, files and network releases, internet and intranet and addresses share point servers are all supported.

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Project controlling

Dates and milestones are easy to monitor. Cost controlling runs in parallel and provides a reliable overview of the financial aspects of a current project at minimum cost.

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Report generator

InLoox is able to produce reports and analyses in many output formats, including Microsoft Excel, RTF, PDF and HTML. Project data can be used for a wide range of analyses: timesheets, planning overviews, cost analyses, transaction lists, target-performance comparisons and all straight from Outlook - thanks to InLoox.

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Documentation and templates

Every project can be archived and all relevant processes recorded. InLoox permits the use of project templates and simplifies the management of recurrent projects and daily business routines.

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Costing and budgeting

Cost estimates may be calculated using existing pricelists and applied to other projects. Offers can be compiled as required with a few mouse clicks and transferred to Excel, for example.

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Project accounting

The billing management facility incorporates invoice generation with automatic archiving, plus a billing overview.

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Offline and VPN capability

InLoox has full network support for use by project teams. The software was developed for both networked and oflline operation and is internet-capable with VPN access.

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Adaptable forms and processes

InLoox is simple to adapt to any company's internal requirements. The software produces a multipurpose infrastructure framework. Individual sections can be suppressed as needed and new data fields, views and analyses can be integrated.

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PDA capability

Bidirectional synchronization of calendar and planning entries from InLoox, project tasks and follow-ons is supported for all Outlook capable PDAs

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Support for international teams

InLoox is multilingual and was designed especially for the use of international project teams working across national borders. Local character sets, units of measure, date and time formats are all supported.

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Security at role and user level

The security infrastructure of InLoox is both highly flexible and simple to use. Authorization can be assigned to individual users or groups of users sharing a common role.

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Database neutrality

InLoox workgroup and enterprise servers are able to access databases from various manufacturers, including Microsoft SQL server, Oracle und MySQL server. The system requirements of InLoox at both client and server level are modest.

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