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BrightWork 365 optimizes project management for PMOs and project teams

BrightWork 365 is a centralized, scalable project management solution for teams looking to standardize processes and boost collaboration in a single solution built on Microsoft 365.

Lack of standardization causing loss of control

As companies deal with more projects, fewer trained project managers, and an array of tools, project information gets lost in silos, causing loss of visibility and control.

BrightWork 365 optimizes project management

Built on Microsoft 365, BrightWork 365 is a comprehensive project and portfolio management solution that helps PMs regain control and gives execs increased visibility.

BrightWork 365 replaces several management apps

A BrightWork customer used BrightWork 365 to consolidate its project and portfolio management task tracking, scheduling, storage, and reporting tools into one solution.

Microsoft ISV partner BrightWork delivers project and portfolio management solutions on Microsoft 365 and SharePoint

Over the past three decades, Microsoft independent software vendor (ISV) partner BrightWork has become a trusted partner of more than 40,000 organizations across the globe, helping them improve their project management processes. BrightWork clients represent a broad range of industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, government, logistics, engineering, tech, and financial services.

With a vision to improve project management processes, BrightWork developed its first solution for Microsoft SharePoint in 2001 and has released a version of BrightWork for SharePoint every year since.

The way businesses operate has changed significantly since 2001. As organizations seek to drive digital transformation and increase productivity in a more globalized world with dispersed workforces, more initiatives than ever are being managed as projects. Combine this with different project management approaches, less formal training, and multiple toolsets and data sources, and you end up with projects that quickly spiral out of control.

The effects of poor project management are felt across an organization. Project managers and team members use disparate tools and are less efficient, and senior executives and PM leads lack visibility across portfolios and cannot measure project success.

BrightWork 365 puts project managers back in control while providing senior executives with improved visibility and insights

In 2021, BrightWork introduced BrightWork 365, its project and portfolio management solution built on Microsoft Power Platform for Microsoft 365. Available in Microsoft AppSource, BrightWork 365 combines software and professional services that use configurable templates and flexible business workflows, giving project teams more agility while increasing visibility for senior executives and project management office leads.

‘’We deliver, deploy, and support a complete project portfolio management solution on Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Power Platform,” said Éamonn McGuinness, BrightWork CEO and Founder. “We work closely with our customers using our unique Start-Evolve approach to provide expertise, guidance, and training at every step of their project management journey.”

One BrightWork client, a manufacturer of servers, displays, storage devices, and more for mission-critical military and industrial environments, realized its project management methods were inconsistent and cumbersome. The client needed a single project management solution that could be modified to match all its needs, including consolidating all project tasks, schedules, documents, and scope into one place and tracking all information securely.

With BrightWork 365 for Microsoft 365, the client immediately gained increased visibility into all projects. Additionally, setting project tasks and timelines became much easier, and project reporting was improved via Microsoft Power BI dashboards.

The client replaced several project management tools with one comprehensive solution, using BrightWork 365 for scheduling; tracking tasks, issues, and risks; processing project requests; storing documents; reporting status; and more. Now every project team member knows exactly how to find documents, actions, schedules, and proofs of concept for any project.

“BrightWork 365 allowed the client organization to leverage the best of the Microsoft 365 ecosystem for project work and collaboration while maintaining a unified view of all projects,” McGuinness said. “As BrightWork 365 is configurable with little to no code, the client was easily able to add their processes and ways of working to the Microsoft 365 apps commonly used by their teams.’’

“BrightWork 365 allowed the client organization to leverage the best of the Microsoft 365 ecosystem for project work and collaboration while maintaining a unified view of all projects”

 Éamonn McGuinness, BrightWork CEO and Founder.
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