Innovation and Development Managers The Innovation and Development Manager is often employed by a company or corporation working with internal research projects for internal use. The external collaborative contacts are somewhat limited. Many projects may experience that handling, sharing and storing documents by email can cause severe problems with access to information as well as having different versions of the same document in circulation. Email is also often used to book and schedule meetings and workshops. ProjectCoordinator® provides a well-equipped document management system with version handling allowing access to the correct/updated information. Participants can share a common document archive and quickly create a knowledge bank for the workgroup/project and work according to a common project plan. You can access the same meeting calendar and share project news, developments and results. Internal research projects are commonly subject to a higher grade of secrecy demanding a high grade of security with secure storage of documentation and information as well as control over the access rights to certain project documentation. Project Coordinator® stores documents, information, usernames and passwords encrypted and the portal administrator can easily set the access rights of every project member. Logging in requires a username and a password and is performed through encrypted communication (SSL). The usernames and passwords are stored in an encrypted database and are never sent in plain text by, for instance, email. If the hosting service is activated the documents are stored on servers in our server room with a high-level of physical security (fire and theft). The hosting also ensures the electricity supply by using duplicate systems, a battery-driven supply and a diesel generator. Beside the features described above there are daily backups and an automatic surveillance alarm. Gathering and sharing information can become quite a time consuming challenge with multiple projects and project participants, principals, financiers and other parties with an interest in the projects. Added to this comes coordination and monitoring of project performance for the projects. ProjectCoordinator® provides a management steering room (the "Lobby") enabling easy coordination of multiple projects/organizations and the possibility to get performance snapshots from each project. From the “Lobby” it is possible to enter the various project rooms which each holds the information and documents for the coordinated projects. Project management with planning, scheduling and following up the project's work, results and budget, are tasks that many Coordinators need to delegate. Project Coordinator® provides the Research Manager with the capability to manage the co-workers´ input and participation in different project phases/activities. He/she can share information, monitor and give feed-back on the progress of the project and manage temporary participation of third-parties. The Research Manager can also give public exposition to the achieved results, plan project phases and activities with a detailed time planning and has the possibility to generate reports on activities, phases, resources, contacts and all other parts in the project planning. It can take a lot of time and work to reach an agreement about client software. It also takes time to educate and train the participants and work package leaders in the use of the client software complicating the desired quick and smooth project start. ProjectCoordinator® has no client software to install and it has an easy to use interface. Education of the regular users are usually not necessary and the training of administrators and managers can successfully be a short training session by telephone reducing the time and need of expensive travelling. Project participants have to access the project information on a regular basis. The ability to access the project information from somewhere else besides the home office is often wanted when traveling or inviting some external contact into the project. ProjectCoordinator® is a web-based tool that can be used on any computer with internet access and a web browser.