Effective Project Management with CreativeOffice Pro
CreativePro Office is an endeavor to have the most complete set of online office management tools you’re likely 
to find at any price – right now CreativePro Office is free! CreativePro is targeted at independent professionals, developer, consultant or manage a small distributed team. With CreativePro Office you can manage your team, clients, projects, invoices, quotes and events from one web-based application.
CreativePro beta was officially launched on March 1, 2007. Some of the salient features are
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Dashboard
See the status of projects, tasks, invoices, important events and more in one customizable screen. You can also add widgets to your dashboard like RSS feeds, del.icio.us links and notes, tasks and more. New dashboard widgets will be added throughout the next few months. -
Client Manager
View all client details from one screen including contact information, open & closed projects, invoices and quotes. Your clients can access their project information, invoices and quotes from their own secure CreativePro Office interface. -
Project Manager
Create an unlimited number of projects for each client. Assign and track project tasks. -
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Time Tracker
Enter billable hours for each project or task within a project. Run time tracker reports to quickly see how many hours were logged on a particular project, in a given month or over a date range. -
Invoicing & Expense Tracking
Quickly create invoices and email them to your clients. Run detailed reports to show you amounts invoiced vs. amounts received for each month, amounts invoiced for each project and which clients are the most profitable. Keep detailed records of expenses associated with projects. -
Calendar
Keep track of appointments and deadlines. Items you enter for projects, tasks and invoices automatically create entries in your calendar so everything is in one place.
Some of the recent changes and additions that have been made are
- Tasks and milestones can now be added to projects,
- Tasks can be viewed as a Gantt chart,
- Files can be uploaded to projects,
- Multiple users (employees, contractors, administrators) can now be added to a CPO account,
- An integrated bug reporting tool has been added,
- The app was converted to PHP 5 and lots of code was refactored.
The blog of CreativePro Office also lists the features that are being worked on which is a good sign as it means that the developers really believe in the application
- The client area needs a lot of work. The client area allows your clients to login with
credentials that you assign and view their projects, invoices and public project files. - The tasks dashboard widget needs to be built.
- The task Gantt chart feature has some formatting issues.
- The Office Search feature needs to be completed.
If you believe in Project Management give CreativePro Office a shot as the interface of the application is easy to understand and usually the challenge of implement a project management tool is to get the team to use it. Since the work flow is simple in CreativePro Office there should be less complaints and challenges with implementation.
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