Central Desktop, Inc. is a software company headquartered in California. The company focuses on providing service in form of software to small and medium level businesses. The products developed by the organization are often compared with other products like SharePoint and Basecamp. The organization has a user base of almost 375,000 and some of the clients like Gymboree, CBS, and Harvard University etc. They have developed project management software called Central Desktop which is available in three versions or editions i.e. Community, Workgroup and Enterprise.
Central Desktop 2.0
Central Desktop 2.0 was launched in February 2010 which includes an additional feature of online file viewer, converting any document to PDF and stable and improved wiki navigation. The online file viewer supported 200 different file types. The main features of the product are document management i.e. online documents and spreadsheets can be managed easily, project management, online file viewer, web conferencing, discussion forums and threads, solution while working, blogging at micro level, Integrated search i.e. full text to be search from Word, PowerPoint, Excel and PDF files, task management.
Project Management
The software tool is powerful which allows the user to complete the targeted goals which can be done quickly and easily. The deadlines, communication relating to the project, documents etc can be easily shared by the project. The social collaboration platform helps to assign tasks, schedule meetings and accordingly conduct them and communicate the milestones to the project members so that they don’t miss the deadlines. It invites customers, contractors etc in the workspace as well in order to increase the transparency and communication. It stimulates communication between the team members via the threads, discussions and documents. All the documents are stored at one central location which is online and accessed from any part of the world.
People
It helps the project members to have communication on broad level in order to strengthen relationships and to have a professional conduct. The social collaboration helps by setting different workspace for different vendors and partners so that nobody has interference. The team members are updated with the role and work that they have to perform with the deadlines. The employees are more accountable to their seniors as they have to submit the task within the time limits. Due to transparency and proper communication with customers, vendors and partners, the customer loyalty and reputation increases.
Workspaces
The social collaboration platform of Central Desktop helps the organization by creating custom company and department based intranets so that the internal information i.e. company notices and announcements, training manuals etc can easily be shared and department intranet will share information related to their team or department. Extranets for client can be created through which clients keep a track or monitor the progress of the project. Project workspaces are created so that the task assigned to individual members are managed, meetings are scheduled and documents are available at real time. Partners can be connected in a secure and password protected environment where the materials can be easily interchanged.
