Small office solutions

As far as term “office” refers not only to the special business premises, but also to a team of administrative specialists who possess certain competence and authority to manage their project or organization, their activities should be supported by a proper IT solution making their efforts more effective. Those solutions are created taking into consideration some essential needs and traits of small organizations, such as limited budgets, small number of workstations, specific requirements to simplicity and easiness in use, etc. Good example of such a solution for computer network is VIP Task Manager which is a client-server application allowing the employees to collaborate in terms of controlling their daily & long-term business tasks, planning working time, and setting up project’s/company’s objectives and business processes.

Small office technology used to drive this project management software:

This tool works in real-time regime, interconnecting workstations via a shared server component installed within your LAN. This software can be perfectly deployed over your IT infrastructure disregarding of its specific technical organization – this could be usual wired Ethernet with personal computers connected to your server computer (Windows-operated), or VPN encapsulating data transfers between computers from different private networks, or some kind of a wireless network – VIP Task Manager enables establishing its virtual environment over all these technologies, so that personnel will benefit from real-time co-operation, and business information sharing. This software employs reliable and proven technologies to drive its profile functionality, so that low-cost administering along with effectiveness in use & security are reached. All business data interactions are performed via maintaining secured connections to special database that contains and upholds project’s matters in a systematized and relevant manner.  

Besides your LAN, this small office software can work over the Internet facilities (public networks), for this purpose, a server computer hosting your computer systems should have static (outer) IP-address making it exposed to the Internet connection, and also your Firewall should be set up to keep port 6725 opened as it is used by VIP Task Manager. This program can become effective component of your VPN solution driving your business functions, which makes your teammates to collaborate and improve their communications, as this tool will help you to:

• Plan your projects in terms of smaller tasks, stages, objectives, costs and time;
• Schedule and share business appointments on Calendar mode with a customizable time-grid;
• Share documents and work results, communicate comments and business notes;
• Track and control business tasks making your business activity progress;
• Supervise productivity and performance of subordinates;

This program is among small office network solutions which are friendly to small and medium businesses, as it offers a very moderate price per license along with very low upkeep costs (no recurring fees and very simple IT-wise requirements). Besides this advantageous simplicity, it is also very easy in mastering and using (can be mastered during one business day), so that the personnel don’t need to dedicate much time to get into effective working with it.