Green Array CEO: Time is right for adding Mac support
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Dec 15, 2005 at 2:06am
Green Array, a company that specializes in high performance workplace software, this week announced that it’s Green Array software now supports Mac OS X. CEO Miles Walsh, a Mac user himself, told Macsimum News that with the success of the iPod and Apple’s increasingly high profile, the time was right to make the move.
“The Apple base is just as aggressively driving the Apple platform as it used to,” he says. “The company’s recent successes offered us a good chance to enter the market.”
Green Array’s web-hosted software is designed to offer a simple, fast, scalable way to improve collaboration and accelerate team performance, he says. Think of your or any organization as a collection of projects when considering the software, Walsh adds.
“Projections show that 50-80 percent of all business projects worldwide fail on some level,” he says. “The failure rate is not the problem; it’s a symptom. The problem is that traditional desktop and enterprise software hasn’t reduced the failure rates in years. We’ve had 10 years of Microsoft, Oracle and ASPs saying the way to get better is to get more pretty data. We’ve seen that this hasn’t worked so we came at it from a different perspective: people need more of a coaching tool to step them through the methodology to develop an application in their client environment, which may be the Mac, and deploy it for an entire team on the Web.”
Walsh says the company learned a lot from Apple’s approach of a no-learning curve. With that in mind, the company set out to create software “that’s different from what’s out there today.” Walsh says the Green Array software breaks down this way: one-third on visibility, alignment and focus; one-third on project and document management; and one-third on ollaboration, communication, compliance and approval.
Green Array’s web-hosted, scalable software solution that includes alignment, resource planning, survey tools, project and document management, workflow, scorecards, alerts, dashboards and more. Now Mac users can now collaborate in real-time with Windows users without any IT involvement and ensure that their organization is aligned from the front desk to the corner office, according to Walsh. The software is targeted to businesses, government agencies, schools and non-profits.
As an introductory offer through February 2006, hosted versions of the Green Array Individual annual licenses are priced at US$20 per month with 1GB of storage. Green Array Shared annual licenses, including 10 user IDs, are also available for $20 per month with 1GB of storage. A fully functional 30-day trial version is available at the Green Array web site.
Trevor Says:
that it’s Green Array software --> that its Green Array software
Posted on December 15, 2005
Richard Dalziel-Sharpe Says:
Oh what the #%^&@, why not just recast the whole sentence so it is more readable: Green Array, specialists in high performance workplace software, the eponymous Green Array, this week announced that it now supports Mac OS X
Posted on December 16, 2005
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
Dr Grammar Says:
Oy vey. It’s = “It is” or “It has”
Posted on December 15, 2005