Company News Views Project Management and Collaboration Will Never Be The Same! By Exhibition Newsdesk Mar 27, 2005 HLP Group Booth # 911 www.hlp.ca Project Management and Collaboration Will Never Be The Same! In today’s business reality, having to juggle between many different types of software applications represents a major drawback in achieving performance. Leveraging on a harmonized groupware solution platform would provide a direct increase in productivity to your organization. HLP Group, from Laval, Quebec, specializing in project management software, has created THE solution. HLP-SMILE! is a complete and fully adaptable collaborative business solution. Its platform allows all participants to merge in real time on a single application that blends common business solutions into one. Unique in its kind, it answers the growing requirement for businesses to have access to accurate information in real time – a key factor for decision making in today’s fast paced market. This collaborative platform also takes project management to a higher level, integrating document management, agendas, email, instant messaging, timesheets, incident management, project planning, expense reports, discussion forums, and more, available at all times and in real time. Still today, many businesses are captive of the costly and ineffective approach of using large number of different software needed to achieve their mission, often creating communication problems between company departments. Generally, each department; finance, sales, communications-marketing, human resources, work with their own software which are often non-compatible with each other, making it difficult to form a united and performing team within the company. HLP-Smile! can avoid this situation and replace all the software on its own, creating one flexible and thriving work base usable in real time and at the same time by hundreds of users and dozens of different departments. HLP Group has had to overcome many challenges during the creation of HLP-Smile!. “When we talk about transactional systems on the Internet, we find traditional problems such as time lapse in response, integration, preservation, and data management. HLP-Smile! eliminates all the aggravation caused by the high volume of communication coming from different data bases. With HLP-Smile!, communication is provided in real time, allowing for the reduction of redundancies and enhancement of your ROI. HLP-Smile! is fully compatible with Linux and MySQL which significantly reduces the cost of ownership (TCO). This is the clear advantage that HLP-Smile! offers.” says Alexandre Hamelin, executive vice-president of HLP Group. “HLP-Smile! is universal. It is made to be distributed on the international market since it is based on a universal technology: the Internet. HLP-Smile! presents unique and desirable characteristics. Already, HLP Group has agreements with European companies and is negotiating with many others. The welcoming of this product and its sales are already conclusive and especially encouraging!”, concludes HLP Group president Yves Hamelin. HLP Group was founded in 1997. Its head office is located in Laval, Quebec. It currently employs over 25 people and has the intention of increasing its personnel of 30% in the next year. In addition to developing project management tools, HLP Group is also a consulting firm in R&D financing. For information contact: Christian Leclerc cleclerc@hlp.ca © Copyright 2003 Real World Linux Biz. All Rights Reserved.