Industry Veterans Launch Projity Inc. Mission: Complete Replacement for Microsoft Project

Project-ON-Demand is subscription-based, available on Linux, Unix, Mac and Windows.

Foster City, CA (PRWEB) September 21, 2005 -- Industry veterans Howard Katz, Laurent Chretienneau and Marc O'Brien have announced the launch of Projity (www.projity.com), a software startup based in the Bay Area with the mission of offering a complete replacement for Microsoft Project. Its flagship product, Project-ON-Demand (POD), will be delivered online via a subscription model priced to meet the growing needs of small and medium size businesses, the vast early adopters of hosted tools. Web-based with no installation requirement, a familiar interface and 100% data integrity in the opening of existing MS Project files. Project-ON-Demand offers the marketplace a complete replacement for MS Project with a tremendous value proposition in both reduced cost and productivity improvements.

"POD will not only deliver a comprehensive, functionally equivalent alternative to MS Project, it will eliminate the headaches of lengthy installation processes, integration challenges and upgrade cycles inherent to Microsoft Project," said CEO Marc O'Brien. "POD will be priced at an affordable monthly subscription and the beta is available on Linux, Unix, Mac or Windows platforms."

According to O'Brien, Project-ON-Demand has been in development by teams in the United States, France and India for nearly three years. Project-ON-Demand is currently in beta testing with very successful results. Projity is increasing the beta enrollment, interested companies should email "beta at projity.com" if interested. Current beta sites range from aerospace and engineering to pharmaceutical companies and government installations.

About the founders

Projity was co-founded by software veterans Howard Katz, Laurent Chretienneau and Marc O'Brien who combined have a 30 year history of successfully pioneering innovations in the project management software arena. The founders were key leaders on InfoWorld's "Product of the Year". The only time this has been awarded to a project management application. Other key innovations include: the first Web-based project management software; the first On-Demand project management software; windows project management software; DOS project management software; and, Mainframe project management software.

About Projity:

Projity was founded in 2003 to develop and market a complete on-demand replacement for Microsoft Project with the mission of becoming the technology leader in On-Demand Project Management. Projity's flagship product, Project-ON-Demand (POD) is the first and only comprehensive project management solution that is delivered as a subscription service and available on the Linux, Unix, Macintosh and Windows platforms. Projity is based in Foster City, CA with operations in Paris, France and Tamil Nadu, India.

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Projity and Project-ON-Demand are registered trademarks of Projity, Inc., Foster City, California. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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