The Project Group Announces ResourceLink, A New Data Integration Module for Microsoft Project Server

Munich, Germany (PRWEB) November 6, 2004

The Project Group, one of Germany’s premier providers of add-in products and consulting services for Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM), today announced ResourceLink, the company’s new data integration module. The Project Group is known for its unique and innovative EPM add-ins, and this product is no exception. ResourceLink contributes to productivity improvements by accelerating the import of data from different sources into Microsoft Project Server. ResourceLink will start shipping at the beginning of 2005.

ResourceLink enables customers to import data from any combination of sources, including Navision, SAP, Active Directory, SQL Server, LDAP, and file systems.

ResourceLink is unlike other existing products for importing resource data because:

•it supports all of the Microsoft Project Server resource properties

•its rules can be flexibly configured according to customer preferences

•customers can choose the principal system for each resource property

•imports can be scheduled.

The development team at The Project Group put particular emphasis on the speed of synchronization while they were developing the XML-based product. Before the real data is imported, customers can perform a simulation to test the process, and each task is documented with detailed log files to facilitate analysis afterwards.

“While we were developing the SAP Connector Solution Starter for Microsoft, we had the idea of developing a really powerful and centralized product for importing data from several sources,” said Johann Strasser, The Project Group’s president and development director. “ResourceLink meets a widespread need for companies to make productivity gains by automating the update process.”

About The Project Group

The Project Group Informationstechnologie GmbH, based near Munich, Germany, is a supplier of Microsoft Project add-ins, including the leading SAP integration product PSLink®, and solutions for project-cost controlling. The company also offers implementation services for Enterprise Project Management (EPM) solutions as well as seminars for Microsoft Project users and programmers. The Project Group is one of the four Microsoft Premier Project Partners in Germany. The company’s management team, composed of internationally-acknowledged specialists in EPM, collectively has over 50 man-years experience with Microsoft Project since Version 1 Beta appeared in 1989. The Project Advisory Council, an international advisory committee for the Microsoft Project development team, counts two of The Project Group’s executives among its total of twenty members worldwide: Stavros Georgantzis und Dr. Thomas Henkelmann. The Project Group’s customer base includes global enterprises like ATLAS, Audi, DaimlerChrysler, Israel Aircraft Industry, Keiper-Recaro, MAN, Microsoft, Miele, Roche, SAP, and Siemens.

For further information and photos please visit http://www.theprojectgroup.com/index_e.html
Press contact: Mr. Achim Schmidt-Sibeth

Email: AchimS@theprojectgroup.de

Phone: +49 (89) 61 55 93 58

IMPORTANT NOTE TO EDITORS:

The Project Group Informationstechnologie GmbH is a German-based company and is not related to the similarly-named The Project Group based in Houston, TX.

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