Our project management add-on to SharePoint called Midori is now in beta. The website is up at http://www.getmidori.com.

If your organization is managing projects and is considering leveraging SharePoint, Midori may well be the ideal solution. We are in beta right now and are looking for people to try out Midori in their organization to run a few projects. If you are interested in trying out Midori, please register here.

Midori helps to manage projects, teams and work in a SharePoint environment. We've customized SharePoint quite a bit to make things easy to use and also developed some technology to integrate with MS Project. Midori can be a good alternative to SharePoint out-of-the-box or an MS Project Server solution. Best of all, if you have a machine running Windows Server 2003, you already have SharePoint for free and can use Midori without additional servers or software!

Apart from being easy to use, the biggest benefit I see in Midori is the ability to manage multiple SharePoint project sites. In many of the organizations that I've worked with, each project is typically given its own site in SharePoint but it's a real challenge to roll everything up to a central location and get the big picture. Most of people's time is spent trying to find information and many of the SharePoint sites end up being glorified network drives with silo'd information. We've spent a lot of time on our dashboards to provide managers, project managers, team leads and team members access to current information and easy access to all of the project's they are part of. Just organizing information more effectively in SharePoint can be a huge productivity boost.

Feel free to drop me a line at nForm to chat about how Midori might fit into your organization.

Posted in Announcements on September 24, 2008

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