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"It has been my dream to have a custom interface for all client communications."
- President, Hickman Group
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Flexible Customization Options
Everyone has heard of the 80/20 rule. When shopping for an enterprise project management solution, most people agree that their
final product selection may offer only 80% of the features they are looking for. Rarely do they find a product that
fits all their requirements.
With Project Insight, you can have a 100% perfect fit. Our IT project management software was designed to be customized.
We offer several options for modifying the software so Project Insight can be customized to fit your exact needs.
Option 1 - Custom Fields and Items
Project Insight administrators can add up to 40 unique fields in the software at either the task or project
level, allowing you to capture all the data your business requires.
Option 2- Custom Items
Project Insight administrators can create new custom forms at the global level. These custom items can have multiple data fields of varying types so your project team can track exactly the data you want.
Option 3 - Web Services Integration
Project Insight offers Web Services application programming interfaces (APIs) that may be used to integrate with any other software application, whether you have a hosted instance of Project Insight, or an installed edition.
The Web Services APIs can be used to automate downloading or creating time and billing information, invoices, projects and tasks, adding or updating companies and users and more.
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Option 4 - Software Development Kit (SDK)
If you purchase an installed edition of the project software, you may also invest in the SDK. This allows your programmers to extend the application through accessing the class libraries. One customer extended the base application by adding 200 data fields.
Project Insight may be integrated with other enterprise software with the SDK. All time and cost, schedule dates, tasks, and general entries are stored in logically organized SQL Server tables. ODBC, linked servers, or XML web services can be used to integrate Project Insight data with other enterprise software systems. As long as your enterprise system is ODBC compliant, it can be synched up with Project Insight.
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Option 5 - Professional Services
If your IT team is overloaded, or you simply do not have the in-house expertise needed to customize a solution, you may hire Project Insight's team. Metafuse offers Professional Services to our customers. We have conducted customization projects that range from adding a few custom fields to the software to full blown integrations with accounting, help desk, CRM and other enterprise software solutions.
Our Professional Services team has performed integrations with Crystal Reports, J.D. Edwards, SAP, and Great Plains Software, to name just a few. Metafuse is a Microsoft Certified Partner, so you can be assured that the work performed is of the highest quality.
Option 6- Branding
Any Project Insight solution can be branded.
Our team incorporates your organization's colors and logos throughout the site so your project management software looks like a tool that you built internally.
We have found that branding helps teams adopt and take ownership of Project Insight.
If you plan to use the web based project management software with outside customers, partners, vendors, consultants or sub-contractors, branding gives you an edge against your competitors.
Option 7- Reports
Project Insight project management software comes with hundreds of valuable, ready-to-use portfolio and project reports. If your reporting needs are more rigorous, you can access the data through the SDK or directly through the database and run additional reports. Because Project Insight is built on a standard Microsoft SQL Server engine, custom reports can be written directly to the database using the SQL query analyzer, or through third party report engines such as Crystal Reports.
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