2017 - Project Insight's Year in Review

2017 marks Project Insight's 15 year anniversary! We've come a long way from dial-up and using post-it notes as project reminders. As automation becomes more and more ingrained in everyday business processes, Project Insight has continually been at the forefront, helping teams Work Better Together™! Of course, our success is much attributed to our loyal users who keep us inspired and wanting to do better everyday. So here's what we've been up to this year.

Highlights

In February, Project Insight announced two new integrations to our software! The first was with Microsoft's Team Foundation Server (VSTS - Visual Studio Team System), most commonly used by software development teams. We also were pleased to announce our integration with Jira, the software development tool used by agile teams.  

Project Insight is the first project management company to build a patent-pending "project concierge" - known as a VirtualPM™ - to facilitate interactions between project managers and resources. Leveraging popular teaming solutions, such as Slack, PI injects intelligent characters into teaming solutions to help project managers track, praise, record, and do a lot of the busy-work project managers do on a daily basis. This leaves more time for analysis and insight-generation for stakeholders so that projects remain on-time and on-budget. Read the full article here. 

CEO and co-founder Steve West brought his vision of providing project management solutions for teams of all sizes and budgets by introducing two new platforms this year - PI#team™ and PI#smallbiz™ in addition to our PI#enterprise™ edition. 

PI#team is our free project management software with advanced functionality. The platform combines simple project management with team communication apps like Slack to help your team Work Better Together™. Sign up FREE here.

PI#smallbiz was designed specifically for growing teams. Our small company solution gives your team the core resources needed to successfully deliver projects from start to finish. Start your FREE 14-day trial now!

The formal announcement of Calvin Hsu's promotion to Director of Sales came in June of this year. Calvin, who has worked with the company for over six years now, has been an integral part of Project Insight and customer success. Congrats! 🎉 Read the full article here.

This award speaks for itself 😉. It was truly an honor to receive recognition for everything we've been working toward. Since then we've continued on our path of growth and helping teams work better together. Thank you for believing in us and going along for the ride! Read the official announcement here. 

We were over the moon when Slack approved our VirtualPM add-on! We received the exciting news that we were officially added to their directory earlier this month. Now, Project Insight and Slack users could easily sync communication between both platforms effortlessly. Cheers to that! Read the official press release here.

Gimme an "I!" Gimme an "N!" Gimme a "C!" What does that spell? In all seriousness, we were honored to be featured in Inc. Magazine's Winter 2017-2018 issue. The article titled, "Project Management: Not Just for the Big Guys Anymore," discusses how smaller companies are thriving due in part to affordable project management solutions. Keep your eye out for the online edition of the article coming later this month. Read the official press release here.

Did you notice? In working towards providing a greater user experience, our marketing and dev teams came together to create something beautiful. After months of conceptualizing, we brought our new website look to life. We hope you enjoy!

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