Outlook + InLoox = integrated project management

We see a strong relationship between project management and communication. Combining InLoox with powerful software like Outlook offers many advantages. For example, frequent program updates become superfluous and training and infrastruture costs are greatly reduced.

InLoox is accepted by the users because of an easy-to-use extension to Microsoft Outlook®, minimizing any additional project management overheads.

The table below shows the extensions to Outlook project management functionality that are possible with InLoox.

	Outlook Standard	Outlook with InLoox
Groupware
Very simple user interface
Virtual Private Networking and dial-up connections, offline and cache mode, Exchange Server operation
Database-independent
Teams supported without Exchange Server®
Role and user oriented permissions
Project management functions
Priorities and reminders
Automatic target/planned/actual analysis
Budget exceeded warning
Task list: status built in
Project overviews: status freely definable
Task lists: summary by person and date
Project overviews, summarised by e.g.: Customer, supplier, project team, partner Costs, gross revenues, costing & budgeting Schedules, documents, milestones, phases, project description, ...
Project planning by means of Gantt chart
Automatic alerts on changes in project planning (for both internal and external contacts and project staff)
Activities: reminder function for automatic follow-on; progressing according to status
Report generator; specific export functions, all report templates freely adaptable
Activity & time recording from calendar, inbox, journal postable to freely definable project cost centers
Filing straight from MS Exchange & Outlook to project document management on file server with precise permission
Unique project number, format freely definable
Project overview: missed deadline warning e.g. via information rules, e.g. "Phase in progress", "Phase overrun"
Server-based categories, freely definable by administrator, e.g. business area, customer category, department
Tasks: one-person delegation function
Projects: multiple delegation with status tracking and direct reporting into project planning
Projects: dependencies (previous, subsequent) and all resources definable
Soft and hard deadlines
Project structure plan codes
Meeting planning via free/busy
Resource planning via free/busy
Automatic author and date documentation to lay down objectives and mission of a project, plus internal and external specifications
Activity list with automatic numbering and coding
Functions for costing & budgeting and project accounting
Activity and planning vorlagen list for company and department
Fast, powerful full text search
Export, import and processing of Microsoft Project documents
Role-based security at folder level preventing unauthorized access to data
Automatically generated task list for project manager and members