Web Based Project Management Tool - Case Study

Client Profile

The client is an IT Service Provider in Germany.

Business situation

The client wanted to create a project management tool to track and manage different ongoing projects.

Solution

A data driven website, developed with open source web technologies of PHP-MySQL was provided which had following features:
  • Provision to send application for projects via email
  • Provision to send a maximum of 5 attachments with the email
  • Display projects with their specifications
  • Display content of info pages using a simple CMS in the admin end
  • Display news items
  • An admin panel to manage projects, news items and a simple CMS to manage contents of the info pages

Benefits

The immediate benefits acknowledged by the client were
  • All validations are server side and the input data is subjected to security checks. Therefore it enhances the quality of the website and reduces its browser dependency.
  • Client is able to communicate more efficiently to its prospective customers/client/users and furnish them with latest information about projects and services of the organization.

Tools and technologies used for implementation

  • PHP scripting
  • MySQL as backend database
  • HTML