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Controlling of Projects (or CoP) is a web based
project management software
developed and sold by SMC GmbH (Germany) which is designed to
assist project managers in developing plans, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing
budgets and analyzing
workloads. It provides the tools for efficient project-team work,
where by communication within and between teams is improved and
gains in process reliability are achieved. CoP is a family of
products, whose individual characteristics support, with varying
emphasis, different aspects of project and line management.
Customer administration
CoP offers the following possibilities:
Projects with tasks,
sub-tasks, and work assignments can be defined and planned.
Staff
can be administered and allocated work assignments.
Staff can
notify the completion of work assignments.
Project expenditure in
the for of work time can be recorded against relevant
assignments.
Various user groups can generate up to date task
related reports.
CoP.Time and CoP.Control both possess a
bi-directional interface to Microsoft Project 2002/2003. Time
expenditure can be recorded for projects which have been created
with Microsoft Project and made available for use within Microsoft
Project.