Who is Enact?

What is the Enact Enterprise System?

What are the benefits of Enact?

What is the difference between Enact and traditional project management systems?

Who uses Enact?

What is the Enact Enterprise System comprised of?

What is Enact ActionPlan?

What is Enact ActionTask?

What is Enact ActionView?

What is the Enact Collaboration Server?

Why are there three different client components for three different types of users?

How long does it take to be up and running with Enact?

Can the Enact Enterprise System handle large deployments?

What are Enactors?

What industry standards does Enact adhere to?

What hardware platforms, operating systems, databases, etc. are supported by Enact?

What distribution methods can Enact support?

What happened to ActionPlan and Project Home Page?

Can a customer evaluate Enact before buying it?

What is the Enact Enterprise System?
The Enact Enterprise System is an easy-to-use, Internet-based solution for enterprise project collaboration and communication. Deployed at more than 200 customer sites worldwide, Enact offers ease of use, scalability and powerful features for real-time, enterprise collaboration.

What are the benefits of Enact?
The Enact Enterprise System has been designed to deliver significant ROI and higher project success rates to organizations of all sizes through:

• Increased productivity due to ease-of-use and better communication and collaboration amongst all knowledge workers
• More effective decision making for project planners and executive management due to better, real-time visibility into project status
• Heightened responsiveness by quickly adapting to project changes and communicating them instantly across the enterprise

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What is the difference between Enact and traditional project management systems?
Traditional project management solutions focus on rigid methodologies, arbitrary metrics, idealized control systems, fixed budgets, pinpoint accurate timelines and other such unrealistic anchor points. For 25 years, this has been the norm and according to the Standish Group, only 26% of IT projects succeed in achieving their original goals. Enact offers a better way.

We recognized that real projects always involve moving targets, shifting budgets, shrinking deadlines, slipping dependencies and last-minute revisions. Enact offers real-time project status, gives early warning to problems, integrates just-in-time changes to the plan, and focuses instant attention on problems that need to be resolved.

Instead of trying to ignore the inevitable bumps in the road, our approach concedes the inevitability of those bumps and offers companies an effective way to solve problems when thing go wrong, to embrace new decisions quickly and to keep everyone focused on the project’s ultimate success.

After all, great project managers depend principally on accurate communication, close collaboration and rapid course corrections to ensure that their projects succeed.

Who uses Enact?
Enact users include more than 200 customers, who include Fortune 1000 companies, diverse verticals including healthcare, high-tech manufacturing, telecommunications, transportation, and financial services, and key applications or horizontal markets such as product development, IT program management and web content production.

What comprises the Enact Enterprise System?
The Enact Enterprise System included a highly scalable application server and three core client components:

• ActionPlan
• ActionTask
• ActionView

Combined with an open, scalable architecture, these three components provide a complete project collaboration and communication solution for today’s Internet-connected business world.

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What is Enact ActionPlan?
Enact ActionPlan is one of Enact’s core client components intended for project planners. It delivers fundamental project management functions such as planning, scheduling and resource management. ActionPlan was designed to overcome the excessive complexity typically associated with project planning tools. Its intuitive interface makes it a very powerful, yet easy-to-use solution for project planners. With ActionPlan, project managers can:

• Create and oversee projects, tasks, schedules, and users
• Manage resources and evaluate resource allocation across projects
• Identify potential schedule and resource risks
• Communicate up-to-the-minute project information
• Post documents, spreadsheets and other file types to projects, so that all project-related information is available in one location, for everyone to access
• Support multiple nested projects and sub-projects that can be delegated to other teams or partners
• Create templates from your existing project plans for future re-use
• Work on private schedules for "what-if" scenarios.

ActionPlan meets the specific project planning needs of project managers and lets them spend their time resolving issues rather than performing administrative tasks.

What is Enact ActionTask?
Enact ActionTask is one of Enact’s core client components intended for project team members or contributors. It facilitates dynamic collaboration between project team members and contributors anywhere in the world through an intuitive interface. Project managers send team members specific task lists with due dates. As individuals complete an assignment and check it off in ActionTask, the updated status is reflected in real time on the project schedule. Team members can create collaborative task notes with name and date/time stamp to share details about a task with others. This ensures that every project participant always has access to the most current information and can:

• Quickly view and update task status from any web browser
• Manage tasks for one or all projects they’re working on in one convenient place
• Setup personal work calendar and email reminders on tasks
• Synchronize task lists and manage tasks with PalmOS hand-held devices
• Create collaborative task notes with name, date and time stamp to share details about a task with others

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What is Enact ActionView?
Enact ActionView is a unique offering. It is one of Enact’s core client components intended for executive management, customers and partners, project team members and anyone else with an interest in the real-time project status. It provides real-time, high-level and customizable overview of all the projects users are responsible for throughout the enterprise from within their web browser. The project manager controls what is published, and can easily customize the data according to the viewer:

• Executives can easily view the project status and budget information
• Team members have access to a complete repository of all project-related information
• Customers and partners can have customized views of their own

• Provides all of the project collaboration services for all of Enact’s client components and Enactors
• Uses SQL databases such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL server to store all project data
• Integrates closely with other external services such as Web, Email and LDAP servers.

Why are there three different client components for three different types of users?
In one word: productivity. Enact offers the user the best of both worlds. While the system starts with the client component most appropriate for a user’s job function to minimize user training and optimize productivity, the user or the Administrator can customize the user’s workspace to contain one or more of these client components as their roles evolve in the organization.

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How long does it take to be up and running with Enact?
Most customers are in production within a few days because:

• Enact installs in minutes
• The Enact client software runs in web browsers and does not need any client-side installation
• Existing projects can be imported quickly into Enact
• Enact’s support for the LDAP standard lets organizations use existing users and groups for project planning
• Enact’s intuitive user interface requires little to no training, so users can be productive from day one

Can the Enact Enterprise System handle large deployments?
Enact includes a highly scalable application server and uses relational databases for data storage. It has been designed to scale to meet the most demanding customer environments. With Enact, customers can collaborate on an unlimited number of projects accessed by thousands of users distributed all across the world. In fact, many customers have found the capability to handle multiple projects simultaneously across multiple sites with multiple project teams a differentiating feature of Enact.

What are Enactors?
The Enact Enterprise System provides an open architecture and a published API. Customers and partners can easily create their own Enactors on top of Enact’s project collaboration platform to service their specific business needs for its customers and its partners.

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What industry standards does Enact adhere to?
The Enact Enterprise System supports industry standards such as HTML and Java as well as directory services standards such as LDAP to allow organizations to use existing users and groups for project planning. With Enact 4, SQL databases such as Oracle and MS SQL Server are also supported.

What hardware platforms, operating systems, databases, etc. are supported by Enact?
Enact supports a wide range of platforms, operating system, databases, web servers and browsers.

Server
Browser Access Client
Enact Desktop Client
Palm Task Integration

Server

Minimum/Recommended Hardware:

• 256 MB RAM, 512 MB recommended
• 200 MB disk space, 1 GB recommended
• Windows: Pentium III 600 MHz or higher
• Sun: Ultrasparc 2 or higher

Supported Platforms:

• Windows 2000 Pro, with Servvice Pack 2 or XP Pro (Enact Workgroup Edition only)
• Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server, with Service Pack 2
• Sun Solaris 2.8 and 9, with the latest patches

Supported Web Servers:

• Microsoft IIS 5.0 (Windows 2000)
• SunONE Web Server
• Apache 1.3 (Solaris)

Supported Databases:

• Oracle 8.1.7
• Microsoft SQL 2000 Server
• MSDE2000 (Enact Workgroup Edition only)

Supported LDAP Servers:

• SunONE Directory Server
• Microsoft Active Directory

Required Software:

• SMTP-based email system or
  an SMTP-compliant gateway to the email system
  (to enable email functions)

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Browser Access Client

Minimum/Recommended Hardware :

• 64 MB RAM
• ISDN or faster connection to the Enact Collaboration Server
  

Supported Platforms:

• Windows 2000 and XP
• Mac OS 10.1.3 or above
• Sun Solaris 2.8 and 9, with the latest patches
• Red Hat Linux 8

Supported Browsers:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2 (for Mac), 5.5 and 6.0
• Netscape Navigator 4.79, 6.2
• Mozilla 1.4
• Safari 1.0

Required Software:

• Adobe Acrobat 4.0 (for printing)

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Enact Desktop Client

Minimum/Recommended Hardware :

• 64 MB RAM
  
• 30 MB disk space (40 during install)

Supported Platforms:

• Windows 98
• Windows 2000
• Windows XP
• Sun Solaris 2.8 and 9
• Macintosh MacOS 10.1.3 or above

Supported Browsers:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or 6.0
• Netscape Navigator 4.79 or 6.2
• Mozilla 1.4
• Safari 1.0

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Palm Task Integration

• Palm OS 3.0 or higher device
• JSync to use HotSync Manager on Windows (included)

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What distribution methods can Enact support?

• Installed on the company Intranet for easy, secure access from any web browser
• Accessed as a fully hosted application through one of our partners
• Hosted by business portal sites as part of a comprehensive e-business solution

Regardless of the distribution strategy, customers can rest assured that they’ll continue to reap the benefits of the Enact Enterprise System.

What happened to ActionPlan and Project Home Page?
The Enact Enterprise System includes both of these products and presents them with a single unified interface. ActionPlan is now one of the core client components of Enact. Project Home Page is part of ActionView, another Enact component.

Can a customer evaluate Enact before buying it?
Absolutely. We believe strongly that Enact Enterprise System offers a unique project collaboration solution and are making the complete product available for free download and evaluation.

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