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Comindware presents its revolutionary solutions for Higher Education at the 20th Annual Online Learning Consortium International Conference
CMW Lab, a leading provider of products and services for predictive Project Management and adaptive Business Process Management took part in the 20th Annual Online Learning Consortium

International Conference. The Conference is a premier forum for Online Learning and continues to expand and play a strategic role in innovation and improvement of higher education. The conference provided the unique opportunity for Comindware representatives to explore the rich variety of models for institutions, and a wide range of opportunities for faculty, staff and administrations.


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Managing dynamic permissions in Comindware Tracker

Managing complex workflows that involve people from different teams, departments and even locations often introduces unique challenges in the context of grouping and isolating your requests from each other dynamically, based on the request type, current workflow step and/or other data points. If you have hundreds of requests fired off to your team every day, you may need to have specific people supervise requests of different types.

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The Future of Integrated PM Solutions
Project management (PM) has always been about accomplishing a goal within a constraint, or a set of goals within a set of constraints. And while the core theory hasn’t changed, the route businesses travel between point A and point B is experiencing a dramatic shift.

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Change Management 101: Ensuring Project Management Software Adoption
So you’ve decided that your organization has reached a point where a project management software is a necessity and is ready to invest the time, money, and effort to implement it. Planning doesn’t always equal reality, as the looming question of adoption is a normal hurdle for management to clear.

According to Pinnacle Management Systems, Inc. Specialists, adoption is a real challenge in implementing project management solutions. Will the workforce use the tool dependably? How long will it take before they’re truly adept at operating the software? Will it end up unused and gathering dust after all the time and money invested in it?

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Making Project Managers’ Lives Easier and More Productive Through Automation
Project management is a continuous struggle for balance between time, cost and quality. It’s no wonder why project managers want to make things more efficient and effective as possible.

Some may think manually creating a project plan is easy, since it’s formulaic. But if you ask any project manager, that isn’t necessarily always the case. There are routine processes that can be done without much thinking, yes, and this is where the opportunity for more time savings actually lies, as a good number of project management tasks and activities are routine in nature.

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Comindware releases the extended version of Comindware Project now enabling project copying and archiving while enhancing user experience

CMW Lab® (CMW Lab) – a leading provider of products and services for predictive Project Management and adaptive Business Process Management extends the functionality of its innovative project management solution – Comindware Project – to further support work with multiple projects.


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Workload Management Made Easier: A Short Guide for Project Managers
Overworked and confused employees eventually become unproductive, even resentful employees. To avoid overwhelming employees with too much workload and task conflicts, thereby destroying morale, workload management must be in order. This begins with proper resource allocation and identifying the issues that must be addressed to optimize resource and workload management.

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Accidental Project Managers: Who They Are and What Tools They Need
There are plenty of employees that, aside from being expected to deliver stellar results in their fields of expertise, are also given the task of managing projects. This frequently happens in marketing, PR, education, consulting, IT, professional services, and even the public sector. Unfortunately, not all field experts are trained project managers and are hence called accidental project managers.

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Evaluating the Actual ROI of New Software Implementation

Implementing tools and software rollouts to improve business and IT processes is a risky move, both financially and organizationally. Such implementations, when not considered with diligence and meticulous care, frequently end up providing the opposite of what management initially expects.


Case in point is the recent IT implementation problem that caused Philippine fast food chain juggernaut Jollibee, McDonalds’ top competitor and with thriving branches in the USA and other countries, to halt operations in 72 stores in Metro Manila. This botched IT upgrade, a supposed 0.5-billion peso (around $11.37 million) project, resulted to lost sales of 6% for just the seven days of August, which, in Jollibee’s 2013 revenue terms, is equal to roughly 92 million pesos.


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Comindware Honored as most Innovative Tech Company of the year in the 2014 American Business Awards

October 7, 2014 – CMW Lab(CMW Lab), a leading provider of innovative Work Management solutions has received the Silver Stevie Award for “Most Innovative Tech Company of the Year” at the 12th Annual American Business Awards. The results have been announced at the gala banquet in San Francisco, California at the InterContinental San Francisco Hotel.


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