The Web based project management tool used by Encodex engineers can control requirements management, change management, defect tracking, file versioning, threaded discussion, and project task management. This provides complete traceability of changes and significantly improves the quality of the application and the efficiency of the team.

For the size of the project under consideration using web based project manager along with Microsoft Source Safe (alternatively engineers can also use Merant's PVCS), Encodex team will reap multiple benefits:

Key Benefits

• Enforces process, provides traceability - Assigns revisions to tasks, requirements, or change requests.
• Easy to use - All components are accessed via a single web based user interface for rapid adoption and ease of use.
• Supports "business continuity" - Can back-up all assets, tasks, code accumulated during the development process, including issues, knowledge and code.
• Ensures secure distributed development - Web based architecture ensures that all users are supported with the same high level of security.
• Eliminates lost code - Reconstructs any configuration by rolling back to any labeled configuration or point in time. (strong points of Source-safe or PVCS)
• Provides high performance for distributed, remote teams - The project Manager can support large teams and large projects with multithreaded, load-balancing architecture, special communication options and auto email notifications