Research Managers Our typical Research Manager works often at a Research Institute or University. This type of user can belong to an fixed organization with many external collaborative contacts and its work is often of public and external interest. Multiple projects can run simultaneously and have different life spans. 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. Projects with sensitive or even secret information need securely stored 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. Managing a research project with planning, scheduling and following up the project's work, results and budget, are common tasks of many Research Managers. The Research Manager has 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. Research Managers often work in multiple projects either as coordinators, managers or as a participant. A result of this is that handling information can be a time consuming work with multiple projects and project participants, principals, financiers and other parties with an interest in the projects. On top of this, the Research Manager may have to coordinate and monitor project performance for many 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. As many Research institutes and Universities conduct research, that is publicly interesting, a web site is a good way to publish such information. Financiers and principals are another important group with an interest in easy access to information about a project. Setting up an external web site adding it to the project work cost both time and money. ProjectCoordinator® provides the web site, making it unnecessary to set up a dedicated web server. The built-in web editor makes it easy to create and manage the pages of a project web site. It is possible to publish internal documents on the public web pages eliminating the need to keep duplicate information on a separate web server. Before launching the project 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 administrators, participants and managers in the use of the client software complicating the desired quick and smooth project start. Project members and participants can be travelling a lot, be geographically and organizationally spread out or simply temporarily work elsewhere. Providing them all with easy access to the project and its documents and information is no always an easy task. 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 project/research managers can successfully be a short training session by telephone reducing the time and need of expensive travelling. ProjectCoordinator® is a web-based tool that can be used on any computer with internet access and a web browser.