Open Atrium at the World Bank

Blogged by Steve Parks on Saturday, 6 September 2009

The World Bank has rolled out use of Open Atrium to manage its internal communications on projects and respond to disasters.

The Washington DC based company that created Open Atrium, Development Seed, has blogged about the news (with a few screenshots) here: http://developmentseed.org/blog/2009/sep/08/custom-open-atrium-intranet-...

Open Atrium is an open source project management system, similar in many ways to online apps like Huddle or BaseCamp. It's built on Drupal, the leading open source content management framework.

The power of Open Atrium is that it is highly customisable through the use of 'features' - a kind of drupal module that can easily be implemented separately within different parts of the site. So, for example, you can have a Chat feature, and only enable it on some projects. Meanwhile other projects can have a documentation area. More features are being made available all the time, and features can also be created for your particular needs.

Pilot Internet is ready to customise and deploy Open Atrium for clients - providing a project management system that can be deployed quickly and cost effectively.

We use it for our own project management, and if you're already a client you'll have used it when you accessed your project area.

If you need to co-ordinate teams of people working on projects, then Open Atrium can help. Ask us for a demo account on our test installation.

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