FBI criticised on computer project

The FBI's effort to move from paper to electronic files took another hit when the US justice department auditors issued their latest report on the long-troubled Sentinel project, states The Washington Post.

"Sentinel is approximately $100 million over budget and two years behind schedule," the report from justice department inspector general Glenn Fine said, and still lacks common features of personal computers and ordinary word-processing software, such as search functions, spell-checking and automatic document saves.

Worse, the IG said, the FBI had spent almost 90% of the $451 million currently budgeted for the entire programme, "but it will have delivered only two of the programme's four phases to its agents and analysts."

Six months after the release of Microsoft's Project Professional and Server 2010, two new project management (PM) ventures have teamed up to turbo charge the global deployment of this game changing enterprise project management (EPM) solution, writes Open PR.

With over 20 million Microsoft Project 2007 users ready to step up to the fully integrated, cloud-based 2010 iteration, BeMo - Project Intelligence's on-demand hosting solutions and SharkPro Software's ready-to-use application could not have come at a more opportune time, says the report.

For the millions of users and businesses around the globe that rely daily on Microsoft's Enterprise Project Management solutions, the report says there is a lot to be happy about with the 2010 release.

TeamLab, a Latvia-based firm, recently unveiled Enterprise 2.0 smart project management suite that is now available via Amazon's cloud, says CMS Wire.

Users can also run it on TeamLab's service or download, run and modify their own version, the report says.

“We covered the open source collaboration suite back in the summer which was released as open source and is now available via Amazon,” the company says.