CLARIZEN COMPARE AND CONTRAST

Clarizen Compare And Contrast

Clarizen Compare Contrast Present

Introduction

Clarizen, Inc. is a software company specializes in project management and work management from United States of America, San Mateo, California. The company was formed in the year 2005 and it released its first software in the year 2007. The basic product of the company is the on-demand, software of a collaborative project execution. Clarizen is a global provider of software of a collaborative project management. The online collaborative project management by Clarizen provides companies with ease to manage their resources and projects in a single environment and effective and efficient manner.

Thesis Statement

The software designed by the company has the ability to combine the team into collaboration and manage the work with real time business execution capabilities in a cloud based application.

Discussion

Humans, by nature, are organized into groups or communities to develop and cultivate an affinity, aspirations or commercial interests. Organizations, and established the form of friends, associations or companies. A social system is created and resource information that flows between its members (Bob, 2010). In the era of Web 2.0, information is mostly digital and real-time. People around the globe communicate simultaneously through the information superhighway. Organizations (social systems) adapt and make use of collaboration tools, creating a new concept (Martin, 2009). Moreover the software also provides with an open API foe those who wish to integrate the software with other existing project based software's (Bob, 2010).

The software also allows users to collaborate both internally and externally that is within the organization and outside organization. For collaboration with other organizations it is not mandatory that the other organizations are using the same software by the company. The mail function of software allows users to update their work progress without even logging into the system. Following are the tools that are being offered by the Clarizen, for managing projects and work.

Collaborative planning

Task management

Time tracking

Budget tracking

Project scheduling

SWOT Analysis

SWOT is the acronyms used to refer to an analytical tool that allows you to work with all the information you have about your business, useful to examine their Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. The SWOT analysis has many applications and can be used by all levels of the corporation and in different units of analysis such as product, market, product-market, product line, corporation, company, division, and strategic business unit (Chaowei, 2010).

Strengths

Low cost and user friendly.

Its management is always available and updated.

Allows efficient communication, quick and instant among all members.

Suppliers and customers of the licensee are also eligible to access.

Allows the participation of various teams that may even be in different geographical areas.

Eliminates the duplication of processes.

It provides a consistent methodology in desired project management.

Weakness

The software is a web based and any interruption in the web can affect the performance of the software.

Not a key player in the project and work management software provider.

Product is highly focused and do not work well with different products.

The market presence is not that great as compared to other software companies offering the aforementioned services (David, ...