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September 11, 2012

One big reason why IPM is different from other construction project management software

When we get enquiries from people about our project management software, or whenever we meet people at trade shows, people often ask us – what is so different about IPM?

September 3, 2012

5 benefits of construction project management software for your business

By admin inMiree Le Roy

If yours is an engineering or construction business, you know how important your project management software is to your success. If you are engaged in these businesses and are just now investigating project management software, IPM Global can help. Here are 5 reasons IPM Global Project Management Software will benefit your project based business:

August 29, 2012

The increasingly high cost of e-discovery in construction litigation and how to avoid it

By admin inMiree Le Roy

I recently came across an ENR article about the incredibly high cost of e-discovery companies are facing in the event of litigation. As we move to paperless project management, with the popularity of smart phones and tablets to manage projects, the amount of data each person on a project generates is incredible.

August 21, 2012

How IPM helps manage projects in 6 different industries

By admin inMiree Le Roy

When it comes to project management software for the AEC industries, we know there are a number different industries all with slightly different requirements of the software they use. Different industries need to concentrate on different aspects of the project management process, and that’s why it’s important that the software project managers use can accommodate the requirements of their particular industry. So here are 6 different industries that IPM is suited for and why:

August 6, 2012

IPM’s flexibility helps manage community projects in Alaska

By admin inMiree Le Roy

Here at IPM, we love sharing our success stories with you, so today I want to show you a real life example of how the flexibility of IPM has helped the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) manage its valuable community projects.

July 30, 2012

Generation Y employees demand more collaboration in project teams

By admin inMiree Le Roy

I have written a few posts on this blog before about the benefits and challenges of multi-generational project teams, and also the impact Gen Y employees are having on the workforce. But I recently came across an article Bill Patterson at Microsoft showing just what effect Gen Y is having on collaboration in the workforce.

July 17, 2012

How can project management software help with auditing and quality management?

By admin inMiree Le Roy

A couple of months ago, I posted a blog about how IPM can expand across organisations to fit a number of different departments. Well we’ve also had a few enquiries lately about IPM’s extensibility in terms of different requirements of project management. So I thought I’d share with you a couple of examples of how IPM can be extended to cater for other needs you may have on your project.

July 11, 2012

IPM joins the YouTube generation

By admin inMiree Le Roy

We are very pleased to announce that the revamp of our project management tutorial videos page is now complete! We have updated our tutorial videos to reflect the new features we’ve added recently and to show you how IPM is working with the CRM 2011 interface.

July 5, 2012

What the leap second delay can teach us about project management

By admin inMiree Le Roy

If you happened to be booked on a Qantas flight last Sunday, you would have felt the full effects of the seemingly insignificant ’leap second’. In order to bring electronic clocks back into sync after slight changes in the Earth’s orbit over the past four years, one second was added to the world’s clocks at midnight AEST on Saturday. And the result was chaos for air travellers. The extra second was enough to cause Qantas’s booking system to crash, causing delays of up to an hour for both international and domestic travellers.

June 27, 2012

How Microsoft CRM contributes to project management with Yammer

By admin inMiree Le Roy

Last year, I posted a blog about Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype, and what that would mean for project managers using Microsoft CRM. Well it seems that the software giant may have even more to offer, with reports appearing in Forbes that Microsoft has also acquired the business social network tool, Yammer, for $1.2 billion.