Planzone is a secure, private and personalized online collaborative workspace where you, your co-workers and clients can meet to share project information. More work gets done in Planzone because everything you need is right there -- project plans, the latest project documents, to-do lists, milestones, wikis.  You also get up to date on many projects at once, quickly. Planzone provides a host of useful features – with many more to come – designed to make you more efficient and your work more effective.

Planzoners are busy people who work on projects – often many at once. They work with others within their departments, across their organization, and with resources outside the enterprise, including their clients. They come from many different worlds – agencies and media, technology, consulting, finance, marketing, non-profit organizations – and from organizations large and small. They do have a few things in common: they don't like wasting time, they do like getting things done right the first time, and they want their teams to succeed.

How can Planzone help my teams work better together?
Planzone does three things for you and your team. It allows you to:

• Centralize key project information
• Keep everyone automatically informed of the progress of others
• Set up a collaborative workspace to accelerate communications and knowledge sharing

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There are many benefits. Here are a few:

1. You get the value of a structured approach to project management without having to follow a formal process or become an expert
2. You have a readily available solution without having to convince your IT department to buy and set up servers or install and configure software
3. You establish strong working relationships with your clients, partners, and vendors helping to build a positive image of your organization
4. You get access to the collective knowledge of other professionals
5. You get to spend more time doing what you enjoy - and what delivers value - and less time dealing with administrative details

You can keep using them after you set up your Planzone account. Because Planzone is project-centric, it offers features that most intranet and extranet services don’t provide.  You can benefit from them without duplicating your effort. For instance, the Planzone wiki will allow you create a collaborative workspace for your team, with direct links to the relevant pages of your intranet.  Moreover, all team members can contribute to build the wiki content, consolidating the information that really matters for your project.

Planzone was designed by experienced project management specialists who have worked for many years with well-known, international organizations to develop world-class project management tools. All of that knowledge and experience is behind Planzone, which, we hope, embodies the essential ingredients of a universal collaboration and project management tool: power and simplicity! Planzone will continue to evolve through the insights and feedback of the greater Planzone Community. And, because we know that the world is getting flatter every day, Planzone features will also likely reflect the needs of an international community.

Planzone is a hosted Internet service that users can access from anywhere with an Internet connection and Web browser. Virtual workspaces called ‘Planzones’ are used to manage projects and collaborate.  Each Planzone provides a wiki that is accessible to all workspace members.  A Planzone can contain many projects.  Each Project workspace also offers a project-centric wiki.  Project workspaces allow you to define tasks and milestones, record notes and store documents.  At your convenience, you also get a regular email digest report of all the changes that took place within your Planzone:  tasks completed, new tasks added, new team member, new document version uploaded, etc.

Planzone allows you to participate in, and manage, multiple Planzones with a single login.  For example, you can be an invited member of Creative Designs, Inc.’s Planzone, and also have your own Planzone account for your local university alumni association branch.  When you log in, you get visibility on all your projects.  Confidentiality is always protected as you only see the information that you are entitled to see – and the same applies to other members.

Planzone also provides an open community workspace for sharing project templates and other professional information across all Planzones and all members.

Planzone is based on Java and AJAX technology. It consists of a core project management engine that integrates specific modules such as to-dos and milestones with a collaboration platform that includes wiki, mail, RSS and file storage systems. All components are coordinated to securely manage all your project information in one place.

You only need an Internet connection and a Web browser. Planzone works with the most commonly used browsers, including:

• Internet Explorer 6.0 or later, Firefox 2.0 or later on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista
• Firefox 2.0 on Mac OS X 10.3.x and later