You are participating in several complex projects, all requiring effective communications among the team to collect information and collaborate in a timely manner. You're finding more and more of your time is spent reading, evaluating, and responding to project-related e-mails. Now that you have ContextPortal™ for Outlook project templates installed the system extracts the key points of the messages and shows you how your e-mails are related to your tasks. And when you work on a Project task you can now work in context - to view all the related e-mails.

Working in Context

Microsoft Project provides the tools to create project plans, assign resources, specify dependencies, and schedule the work among team members. No matter how well the project is planned, it's crucial that team members communicate and support each other effectively to get the actual project work done. Project plans and status must be communicated quickly and any issues that arise must be addressed as soon as possible, before further delays occur. With ContextPortal™ for Outlook with imported Microsoft Project templates, you can immediately view e-mails related to tasks and tasks related to e-mails. Given the importance of effective and efficient communication to the success of your projects, this cross-referencing capability will help your projects succeed faster.

Specific benefits

• Your project e-mails stay organized.
• Select an e-mail and immediately see which tasks are related.
• Select a concept-task in ContextPortal™ for Outlook and all related e-mails are immediately shown.
• Use the ConceptMap to import or create your own taxonomies/templates. Select an e-mail and immediately see which concepts are related.
• Select a concept from a domain/topic template in ContextPortal™ for Outlook and all related e-mails are immediately shown.
• Users will benefit from the value of framing their work according to structured templates.
• Information and knowledge use will be promoted as users will have access to information from previous projects that were attached to the concepts. While working on the task and composing communications, users will have access to relevant information to help solve the problem.