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Five Apps: Tools to help CIOs manage IT

By Wally Bahny November 27, 2013, 8:48 AM PST

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Five Apps: Tools to help CIOs manage IT

Five apps to help CIOs do their job successfully

Five apps to help CIOs do their job successfully

Thisrngallery is a supplement to a TechRepublic article.

Take a look at five tools to help a CIO manage their ITrndepartment’s business interaction.

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Five Apps to Help CIOs: Ace Project

Five Apps to Help CIOs: Ace Project

Ace Project comes with a very useful dashboard that breaksrntasks down by their status, allows you to monitor time spent, and check on thernoverall status of projects.

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Five Apps to Help CIOs: Ace Project 2

Tasks contain all of the common fields most project managersrnare used to.

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The free Ace Project package allows for three active users,rntwo active projects, 50 active tasks, and 250 MB of storage.  This dashboard helps you keep track of yourrnusage.

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Ace Project allows for customization to make your projectrnsite match your company’s branding.

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Five Apps to Help CIOs: PPM Roadmap

Five Apps to Help CIOs: PPM Roadmap

PPM Roadmap also contains a highly useful dashboard thatrnuses color to indicate status across projects, availability, and utilization.

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Five Apps to Help CIOs: PPM Roadmap 2

The project selection screen shows the health of each projectrnagain as well as a couple of status indicators.

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Five Apps to Help CIOs: PPM Roadmap 3

Drilling into each project displays a list of tasks orrnu201cTodosu201d that contains many of the common fields as well u2013 especially when yourndrill into each one.

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The tasks can also be viewed from the point-of-view of arnteam member.

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Five Apps to Help CIOs: Zoho Projects

Five Apps to Help CIOs: Zoho Projects

The home page for Zoho Projects is a feed that shows thernlatest changes on the projects you’re working on.

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Five Apps to Help CIOs: Zoho Projects2

The dashboard for each project also shows a feed of thernproject’s most recent changes as well as an overview of the project.

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Tasks and milestones once again contain the commonrnfields.  Team members can simply clickrnthe percent field and select the current percent of completion.

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Five Apps to Help CIOs: Zoho Projects 4

Zoho Projects contains a calendar view that displays therntasks each person or the whole group are responsible for overlaid in anrneasy-to-read view.

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Project team members can create additional pages and dashboardsrnto add in to their Zoho Projects site.

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Zoho Projects also has a forums feature which is uniquernamong the selections on this list.

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Five Apps to Help CIOs: Open Source Requirements Management Tool

Five Apps to Help CIOs: Open Source Requirements Management Tool

OSRMT helps keep track of requirements in any of yourrnprojects.  They can initially be brokenrndown into various categories.

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Five Apps to Help CIOs: Open Source Requirements Management Tool 2

Each category can then have subcategories which then containrnthe various requirements.

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Each requirement can have the target version, a priority, arnstatus, attachments, and a description.

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Five Apps to Help CIOs: Planware Online Strategic Planner 1

Planware Online Strategic Planner is part of an array ofrntools available to plan various business interactions.

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Five Apps to Help CIOs: Planware Online Strategic Planner 2

Other than the business name, the first u2013 and most key u2013rnaspect of this tool is capturing SWOTs (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities,rnand Threats).

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Five Apps to Help CIOs: Planware Online Strategic Planner 3

Other key fields include Vision, Mission Statement, andrnValues.

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Five Apps to Help CIOs: Planware Online Strategic Planner 4

Once you are happy with the entries, simply click one of thernCompile Plan buttons to view the entire plan in a formatted display that can berneasily copied into a word processor and adjusted as needed.

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