Sharing in the ProjectLounge

Software newly launched in the UK could help engineers organise projects across different companies, countries and times zones.

ProjectLounge is a hosted online collaboration service powered by IBM’s Lotus Notes. Although it can be used for any project type, it has already proven valuable for international engineering projects. One success has been a motor manufacturing company that does its design in the US and the factoring in China.

ProjectLounge hosts all the files pertaining to a project and allows them to be accessed via a URL. Anything that can be electronically stored can be put on the site so people can have access to it.

As all project documents are hosted and accessed via a URL, they are outside a company’s firewall, so granting access to a project member from another company will not jeopardise security. Users do not need to install a copy of the ProjectLounge software locally as they simply access a website with password control.