As more and more projects include dispersed teams who teleconference and share resources via email, the need for virtual project management becomes more pressing. Collabowrite has investigated a number of solutions for managing people and workflow over the internet and works with the major open source project management tools, including dotproject, project open, phpcollab, and phprojekt.

Most online PM tools include the following features:

• Secure login
  
• Document storage, versioning, display, and approval
• Discussion or chat tool
• Phase and task management
• Project notes
• User types and permissioning
  
• Calendar with scheduling capability
• Notification and mail
  
• Customer support or ticketing system
• Project timesheets and work timers
• Contact management
  
• Search function
• MSProject import

Collabowrite's clients have access to our support application, which offers project management tools and help desk features.