My group requires to monitor 10 other teams and we are trying to build
an Integrated Project Management Tool. The company has deployed
sharepoint and we also have bought Coras Works Suite. Most of the teams
that we are trying to monitor use different applications to regulate
themselves, like MS Project for planning, Sharepoint for sharing
documents/announcements, sharepoint/Clearquest for issue tracking and
ofcourse, excel. Needless to say, monitoring these projects has not
been easy because there is no one platform. Currently the projects are
required to complete a one page status report showing the status of
current deliverables, coding, testing, implementation, issues , risks,
running narrative, dependancies etc. But our approach is reacting to
what they show on their status report. We also have a difficult time
just keeping track of historical information like issue/risk,
deliverables completed, next set of deliverables due, other show
stoppers, cross depandancies with other projects et al.

What we want to do is to rollout an integrated project management tool.
Coras works has number of rollups that help with project management
(www.corasworks.net/.../index.html)
. But I am not sure if they integrate with MS project and provide all
the functionality we need.
1. Can someone give me an examples of Integrated project management
tools? Can Sharepoint do the job? I am looking for good visual project
management templates or examples.
2. We also need to synchronize with MS Project and I did not find any
good visual examples for that. Can someone suggest some examples?