One place to centralize everything

Scatter and point to point communications kills productivity and prevents transparency. You want to be able to store everything in the one place - Project files, timelines, tasks, approvals, feedback and team info.

Real-time collaboration

Other project management tools like MS Project, Excel suffer from asynchronous working problems. Pulse is updated instantly and automatically keeps everyone on the same page whether they are inside or outside your organization.

Web based for PC and Mac

Requires No special software installation. Open your browser from anywhere, at anytime with all your project files accessible to you. Can be deployed on our Cloud platform or on your network and SharePoint installation if desired.

Simplicity of Use

Pulse stands out from other project management applications due to its design & simplicity of use. We’ve removed complexity and clutter so marketing and sales teams can learn and adopt it rapidly.

Project Visibility

A unique interface simplifies the viewing of projects. Your projects are visually mapped and aligned to your process. The impact on transparency and understanding is enormous.

Process Visualisation

Gantt charts are complex and with other tools you need to shoe-horn your process for the tool rather than the other way around. Pulse offers a compelling alternative. We design the solution experience around your brand and your ways of working. Your stage gates are visualised and become an interactive part of the application. Easier adoption and understanding guaranteed.

Easy Project Planning

Set-up your process stage gates by project, apply milestone dates to stages and off you go. Update dates at anytime with automatic notifications to the team.

Project Asset Management

Don’t just plan and track project timings and tasks. Use Pulse for storing, sharing and collaborating on files within your process workflow. Pulse includes a fully featured digital asset management capability catering for all the file format needs of brand teams. It avoids clogging email systems with large files.

Flexibly organise files by project stage, folder, sub-folders. There is no limit to the file hierarchy or amount of files stored.

Fast File viewing

Speed productivity. No longer is there a need to waste time waiting for files to download before viewing them. Pulse allows you to view files online quickly. Big marketing files (videos, images etc) are converted and compressed so you can speed the review and feedback cycle.

Total access & permission controls

Decide who can join a project and what they can do within a project. Set rights by group, by individual and flexibly change permissions by project. Work in private groups within projects with folder level permissions.

Full version control and file histories

Prevent confusion and mistakes with robust version control. Check files in and out and lock files down while edits are in progress. All file versions are kept and users can view and roll back to previous versions with one click.

Consolidate File Comments

Capturing everyone’s comments so decisions can be taken is time consuming and painful. Pulse helps you by capturing all comments virtually and can provide you with a excel report of all comments made on files.

Online Approvals

Improve the speed and transparency of the approval process by enabling online approvals and commenting.

Manage & Assign Tasks

View and assign tasks to groups and individuals. View tasks based on user, project and stage gate. Keep the team informed with task status changes and email notifications based on changes.

Project Discussions, Wikis, Message boards

Empower flexible collaboration with project spaces for discussions, meeting notes, news & announcements.

Online Forms

Configure Pulse to virtualize existing processes. For example, integrate online forms for capturing Statements of Work, Change Requests etc.

Personalized Activity Dashboard

All activity relevant to you and your projects is captured for quick and easy viewing. Toggle between activity based on last login, last week, last month. View all your upcoming tasks and milestones in a calendar format. All items in the dashboard can be clicked to deep dive to the individual file or task.

Search

Find any file or task with Pulse’s search feature. Includes advanced search features for filtering results. Search by file type, date period and use Boolean and other techniques to refine your search. Full file text search is also available. One click access from Search to online documents, videos and images.

Email Notifications

Automatic notifications can be applied for all key project activities. – Periodic project activity digests can be set-up allowing for simple consolidated overviews of all activity personalized to the user. – Allow personal control of information flow by giving users self-service capabilities to manage their own notifications.

Project templates

Many projects share similarities. Same team, same timings, same tasks. Why waste time setting these up again and again when you can use project templates.

Archive projects

Retain all assets and communications for the full project lifecycle for later review, re-use, searching and compliance.

Project team pages with full profiles

New to a team or looking for contact details Pulse gives you everything you need on stylish project team pages.

Reporting

View projects in different ways. Allow senior management to get a simplified top level perspective on progress. Set-up sorting by project type, partner, brand etc.

Safe & Secure

Pulse uses enterprise grade security standards expected by our Fortune 100 clients. Our Cloud solutions are hosted with a leading SAS 70 certified data center partner. 128bit SSL encryption is applied to all data transfer. Password strengths and expiry periods can be adjusted to meet your policies. We can also integrate with enterprise Single Sign On systems whether we host on the Cloud or inside your firewall.

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