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Five Apps: Tools to help CIOs manage IT

By // November 27, 2013, 9:12 AM PST

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  • Five apps to help CIOs do their job successfully

    This gallery is a supplement to a TechRepublic article.

    Take a look at five tools to help a CIO manage their IT department's business interaction.

  • Five Apps to Help CIOs: Ace Project

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

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

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

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

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  • Five Apps to Help CIOs: PPM Roadmap

    PPM Roadmap also contains a highly useful dashboard that uses 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 project again 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 or “Todos” that contains many of the common fields as well – especially when you drill into each one.

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

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  • Five Apps to Help CIOs: Zoho Projects

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

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

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    Tasks and milestones once again contain the common fields.  Team members can simply click the 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 the tasks each person or the whole group are responsible for overlaid in an easy-to-read view.

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

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

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

    OSRMT helps keep track of requirements in any of your projects.  They can initially be broken down into various categories.

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    Each category can then have subcategories which then contain the various requirements.

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    Each requirement can have the target version, a priority, a status, 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 of tools 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 – and most key – aspect of this tool is capturing SWOTs (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats).

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  • Five Apps to Help CIOs: Planware Online Strategic Planner 3

    Other key fields include Vision, Mission Statement, and Values.

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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 the Compile Plan buttons to view the entire plan in a formatted display that can be easily copied into a word processor and adjusted as needed.

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Five apps to help CIOs do their job successfully

This gallery is a supplement to a TechRepublic article.

Take a look at five tools to help a CIO manage their IT department's business interaction.

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