This intuitive and highly functional application was designed to help project managers and intelligent workers to navigate multiple project centric datasources and providers that provides a cohesive interface that is easy to operate, and integrate with existing project infrastructure.  As mentioned, it offers a highly configurable platform to traverse multiple project based sub-systems to reduce the number of varying applications used on a daily basis to navigate critical project operations.  Having developed it using Microsoft Access, it creates countless opportunities to integrate with any RDBMS systems, and work directly in conjunction with contemporary Microsoft Office products that is not limited to Word, Excel and SharePoint services.  Since it is packaged into an all-inclusive simplified application that is highly portable and can operate on most common Microsoft Office licensed desktop.  The near future release of this application promises to operate on Windows mobility based platforms with full support for replication.  This application distinguishes itself from other specifically in the area of accountability and tracing, which is best described by its ability to associate one project item with another so that something as simple as a project task can be easily traced back to a particular meeting, a reported issue, or a request for enhancement.  In this way, executable tasks may be indemnified as a billable item that may be accounted for accurately.

The adoption of the OUTLOOK paradigm was employed exclusively to help contemporary users to overcome a learning curve, and to serve the ease of portability into a VB.NET and ASP.NET environment in the future.  The design also encapsulates many user-centric functionality by focusing functions based on user roles and security.  The simplified design also arranges many of underlying complex operations to ease navigating many moving parts of the application.  it also prides itself in a picturesque dashboard that designed to provide project workers a quick look on key project data, direct access to important functions, and features the current month's view of the calendar.

Here is a list of other critical features:

		OUTLOOK design paradigm
		Graphically based DASHBOARD panel
		Project history and tracking
		Task centric timer function
		Graphically enhanced project states
		Template based document creation
		Styles designed for various project types
		User centric project objects
		Cohesive console to access all projects

The graphically infused project states available in the DASHBOARD is also integrated into various other parts of the application.  It provides an intuitive representation of projects that is easy to read and discern  These flags are also applied in financial panels and reports which adds to it contemporary indicators of project states.

To ease the workload of the project manager on a daily basis, a template based document library was created so that many of integral information be reused throughout various other parts in the project.  In this way, scoping level information that appears in a Project Charter may transcend into Requirements and User Acceptance.  Furthermore, this design enables descriptions that are normally deemed useless to be used in very meaningful ways, making it easy to search, calculate and apply various quality assurance rules which enhances the accuracy and quality of the data entered.  It creates a valuable opportunity for project members to write, compose and document information that will be continuously reused, improved upon and maintained with a level of accountability that is seemingly disconnected in most project management information systems that treat such objects as plain text, whose origins, dictation, formulas are often poorly recorded, easily tampered with and does not reflect a clear nature of precedence.   For this reason, a great deal of emphasis is placed upon the JOURNALIZING feature of the application, which is focused on keeping track of flow of information, in accordance with the industry's widely practiced document management rules.  In conjunction with the integrated TEMPLATE services, the project manager is given wide breath access to document structures so that the entire portfolio may observe established models.  It also enables the system to log the document sources and information, whereby enforcing embedded journalizing functions.  The use of STYLES also helps to categorize the TEMPLATES into specific project applications such as document templates which differ from construction, integration, technology and education projects.

Another valuable function which is very helpful is the task centric TIMER, that will capture accurately the amount of time employed in engaging a selected task.  This innovative coding is also extended into the graphically enhanced project status reporting.  It is also integrated closely with DASHBOARDS, REPORT panels and CHARTS which takes advantage of visual queues and indicators, while it enhanced KPI centric lists.

An additional feature designed to personalize the application is the introduction of the FAVORITES, which allows the user to gather specific projects, reports, documents and templates to serve as a frequently used collection of objects.  It also enables the user to focus project items owned or assigned to them, and maintain them on a closely monitored list which can be accessed quickly from a single console.

Again, the PMOC Manager sets itself apart from other contemporary applications by offering a clear sense of ease, accountability, re-usability, conformance, comprehensive functions, graphically based reporting and a host of other valuable features such as the timer and search tool that makes every-day project management functions ever so fulfilling.

The PMOC Reader is a light-weight XLS application which is designed to read from an underlying XLS workbook which is an export document created by the PMOC Manager application. This is designed to allow user to read specific data extract from the PMOC Manager for a specific project repository.  The underlying SEARCH tool allows user to return records or rows from the entire collection of worksheets in the workbook.  This packaged tool provides manager, shareholders and financial analysts to perform their custom analysis operations since the XLS document may be referenced as valid DATASOURCE.  Furthermore, this analysis and reporting tool serves as a great compliance review document that can be customized to match any EDI or XML specification that may employ an XLS document as a datasource.  This application can also be extended under its own programmatic framework to perform additional reporting, transformation and processing functions such as interfacing with external sources and exchanging data with other web services.