OpenProj is available for Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Unix, compatible with Microsoft Project files, and designed to work with leading open source office suites including Sun*s StarOffice, IBM Symphony, and OpenOffice.org, which boasts 100 million users. It is also available in 11 languages including Chinese and Korean.
On Demand Project Management
Project-ON-Demand is for small- to medium-sized organizations (SMBs) where several users collaborate on multiple group projects. Project-ON-Demand is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that eliminates the complexity of deploying Microsoft Project for large, geographically dispersed teams. It builds on the functionality in OpenProj by delivering additional multi-project, collaboration, reporting, and management features for a small subscription fee. Companies around the world are using Project-ON-Demand, including Corning, Sun and Wincor Nixdorf, and many others.
Project and Portfolio Management
Ultimately, Serena will integrate Project-ON-Demand*s robust project management capabilities into Serena Mariner, the company*s enterprise-level PPM offering, to give customers a broad view of project and portfolio status across their department or entire organization.
"Strong project management support is a critical part of our PPM strategy. Many companies today are paying $1,000 per user per year for a license to Microsoft Project. Serena believes that there should be alternatives. The addition of Serena OpenProj brings our customers a viable functional alternative to Microsoft Project. In Asia, our open source application is already localized in languages such as Chinese and Korean, with other languages pending," said Mr. KC Yee, Vice President for Asia Pacific, Serena Software. "More importantly, in addition to giving the marketplace an alternative to commercial project management software, Serena now has an even stronger PPM offering on-demand."