Online Alternative to Project
Wednesday, December 14th 2005 | Ismael Ghalimi
In the quest to find online alternative solutions to the various components of an office productivity suite, one more building block has been recently added by DreamFactory. The DreamTeam extension to Salesforce.com is by no means a match to the functionality offered by Microsoft Project, but if all you are looking for is a way to organize the various tasks of a project into a schedule and display it through a Gantt chart, it will do the job perfectly.
What makes it a better solution than Project is that it can easily be shared among users of your Salesforce.com instance and you can attach documents, events and workflow tasks to any project task or milestone. There comes the power of custom Salesforce.com applications, and DreamTeam is a perfect example of a third-party solution that leverages the online relational database offered by the service and extends it with a custom editor for a specific set of custom objects. Congratulations to Bill Appleton, DreamFactory’s CTO, for this sweet application.
At the time of writing, DreamTeam still requires manual setup within Salesforce.com Enterprise Edition, but this should disappear once Salesforce.com publicly releases Appexchange.
Entry filed under: Office 2.0
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[…] AppEchange is now officially available and will make the installation of third-party applications much easier than before. I have been using DreamTeam as an online alternative to Microsoft Project for a couple of months now, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that the application is still working with the new release. […]
[…] Fewer applications to pay for. While this might change in the future, 7 out of the 11 online services I use at the time of writing are totally free. 2 have good enough free options, even though I opted to upgrade to their commercial editions: I am using the $24.95-a-year Flickr pro account, which gives me up to 2 GB of monthly upload capacity, and the $150-a-year LinkedIn Business account, which grants me access to InMails and OpenLink. Finally, I have subscribed to the $125-a-month Salesforce.com Enterprise Edition and the $120-a-year DreamTeam for AppExchange featured earlier. In all these, only Salesforce.com is a must-have application, and at $125 a month, it certainly is not cheap, but it does so much for me that I would gladly pay twice as much if I had to. […]
[…] DreamTeam needs a browser pluginI like DreamTeam because it gives me Gantt charts in Salesforce.com, but I would rather have an AJAX interface instead of the funky DreamFactory plugin technology. A couple of years ago, I built a project management spreadsheet with Microsoft Excel that sported a Gantt chart interface. It made extensive use of macros, so I will try to run it into Zoho Websheet as soon as AdventNet comes up with a version that supports them. […]
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