Increased efficiency with a clearer layout in Microsoft Project with TPG ToolbarCustomizer

Munich, Germany. 26 March 2007 – TPG The Project Group GmbH, the world’s leading provider of Microsoft Project add-in products and a Microsoft Premier Project and Gold Certified Partner, today announced that it is extending its product range with the TPG ToolbarCustomizer. The new product enables companies to reduce menus and toolbars down to just the functions that each user really needs. All unnecessary functions can simply be hidden, providing a clearer layout that makes this complex product easier to work with. TPG ToolbarCustomizer is available now from TPG.

“Even in its client version, Microsoft Project includes powerful functionalities. If you add the server, there are even more. But users often only need a few functions in their everyday work,” says Johann Strasser, Managing Director and Development Director at TPG. “Users sometimes find that the extensive menus and toolbars are complicated and confusing, and even hinder them in their work. This leads to a lack of acceptance of what are actually good solutions. We heard this comment so often from customers that we decided to do something about it by developing this new product that solves the problem quickly and easily.”

The TPG ToolbarCustomizer enables customers to individually reduce menus and toolbars for each user, just leaving the functions they really need. Using a mouse, they quite simply remove all unnecessary elements from menus, sub-menus, and toolbars in the Microsoft Project Client. The product can be used in the same way with Microsoft Project Server and third party add-in products. After creating their personalized menus, users save this setting as a view (mode) under a name of their choice. They can also create different views for different needs and toggle between them as necessary. The original view can easily be restored at any time.

Once a view has been created, it can be copied onto other computers with the product installation. This is especially useful in companies where the administrator wants to assign the same settings to each member of staff from a central computer.

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TPG The Project Group GmbH based in Munich, Germany, is a team of internationally recognized experts in IT solutions for enterprise-wide project management. TPG is the world’s leading developer of Microsoft Project add-ins and offers implementation services for Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) solutions to large and mid-sized enterprises. TPG places particular emphasis on the integration of EPM in the financial controlling area as well as on IT support for Project Management Offices. TPG’s range of services is complemented by seminars for Microsoft Project users and developers as well as preparation for PMI’s Project Management Professional certification exam.

TPG The Project Group is a Microsoft Gold Partner and one of the top Microsoft Premier Project Partners in the German-speaking countries. The company’s management team, composed of internationally acknowledged specialists in EPM, collectively has over 60 man-years experience with Microsoft Project since Version 1 Beta appeared in 1989. TPG is a member of the Partner Advisory Council, an international advisory committee for the Microsoft Project development team, which counts only twenty members worldwide.

TPG The Project Group’s customer base includes global enterprises like Agere, Agip, ATLAS, Audi, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Bentley, Bosch, British Aerospace, Cognis Chemicals, DaimlerChrysler, Israel Aircraft Industries, Irish Rail, Keiper-Recaro, LFA Förderbank Bayern, MAN, Microsoft, Miele, Roche, SAP, Schukra, Siemens, Swisscom, Texas Instruments, WDR and others.

The Project Group GmbH
Neherstr. 9
81675 Munich, Germany
www.theprojectgroup.de
Contact person: Achim Schmidt-Sibeth
AchimS@theprojectgroup.de, Tel: +49 (89) 61 55 93 – 51, Fax: +49 (89) 61 55 93 – 40

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