Platform for Management of Business and Educational Projects

Project management information system (PMIS) is one of the main enablers of successful project management. Project management and document centralization are diverting large amounts of energy when working on collaborative projects with academic institutions, private enterprises and government organizations. Each of these organizations include different user roles with different interests for the project, project management practices and requirements for PMIS. Therefore PMIS should be adapted to the needs and requirements of these collaborative projects and users. The objective of this paper is to define functional needs and describe the configuration for PMIS, suitable for common business, educational and research projects based on literature review and assessment of needs. The platform for business and education project (BEP) management of is an online PMIS that will support defined functional needs and configuration. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.