Scenarios
This application is perfect for projects requiring group collaboration. Here are some ideal applications.
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Smooth communication
For engineers, coordination with customers and partners is a crucial ongoing task. With Planio, authorized project participants can be provided with access to updated documents such as contruction plans and blueprints. This way, communication efforts are reduced and updates by e-mail become obsolete.
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Easy cooperation
Collaboration with associated companies requires a high degree of coordination. Planio's task management function and its time tracking feature simplify the delegation of tasks and the documentation of work. Using Planio helps to reduce management efforts for projects to a significant extent.
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Start small
Young companies with just a few employees often have very limited ressources. Responsibilities may overlap, and when the chips are down everyone needs to help out. Keeping an overview in such an environment is a challenge.
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Cost-efficient management
Luckily, with Planio essential management tasks can be tackled easily and cost-efficient: the task management feature enables you to assign tasks to individual employees and track their progress. Within the Wiki, company-related information such as organizational data or meeting notes can be collected and published.
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Central and online
No matter where the project participants are based, communication via Planio works smoothly. Even coordination and time tracking with external freelancers becomes a piece of cake thanks to the integrated role based access control. All these features make Planio the perfect online tool for management of small and medium-sized companies.
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Course projects
Many courses at university include student projects which aim at solving a given task in a team. At the end of the term, results need to be presented in a final report or during a presentation session.
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Developing ideas
With Planio's integrated wiki, it's easy to gather and structure knowledge collaboratively. The work load can be shared by assigning tasks to individual students in the team, final reports and presentations can be produced and reviewed together using the handy file management features.
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Work efficiently
Especially when working on a tight schedule with pressure on time and performance, it is worth considering the organizational power of Planio. This helps to avoid intense last-minute sessions and all-nighters before the project is due.
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Manage creativity
In the media sector, team work and deadline pressure belong to the daily routine. Planio's file management features make sharing of design drafts and updated blueprints within the team easy. Responsibilities and work flows can be planned and applied with Planio's task management.
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Customers and freelancers
Not all project participants are necessarily located in the same office all the time. Coordination with customers or freelancers therefore often takes a lot of time and patience. The built-in communication features assist decision making processes and document the agreements.
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Sharing documents
One major aspect of consulting is developing analysis and strategy papers for clients. With Planio, these documents can be made available to all project participants on the documents page of the integrated file management at anytime.
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Optimization and transparency
Work flows within the project can be formalized using the task assignment features. Auomatically generated gantt charts and milestones help to visualize and review the processes. The time tracking function makes your work more transparent towards the client, it simplifies accounting and it also reveals optimization potentials.
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Organizing knowledge
In work groups, regardless of their specialization, an instant access to information and an easy way to collaboratively work on documents are key requirements. Planio's integrated file management features make it simple to collect, share and archive scientific reports and research results.
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