The leader in SaaS and open source project management software, Projity, today announced that over 500,000 copies of OpenProj have been downloaded. With over 60,000 new downloads monthly, OpenProj is the fastest growing application in the project marketplace. In over 142 countries around the world, the OpenProj solution is replacing commercial applications. The usage in both small business and Fortune 500 companies is accelerating rapidly around the world. Projity's new users this quarter included Bank of America,BAE Systems, Atos Origin, Analog Devices, AIG, BearingPoint, Sonoco, Oracle, CH2M Hill, Nortel, General Electric, Cap Gemini, Cisco, Fujitsu, Bell Helicopter, EDS, Hewlett Packard, Honeywell, IBM, Martin Marietta, SAIC, Siemens, Sun Microsystems, Toshiba, Wipro and many others.
CEO Projity, Marc O'Brien, commented: "The Projity team is very pleased OpenProj has now been downloaded over 500,000 times since our launch earlier this year. The Projity impact is reaching users in companies of all sizes and in over 142 countries. Our global users have a free and open source alternative that is a complete replacement of their proprietary desktop solutions. Projity's open source and SaaS model is disrupting commercial project software vendors."
Being now been translated into over a dozen languages, OpenProj usage is increasing rapidly. For existing vendors, the OpenProj replacement of commercial project management applications is highly disruptive and important to the entire industry. Project management software is installed on over 7% of all Office desktops. So companies can now replace their entire Office suite with open source and SaaS alternatives, OpenProj completes the alternative Office suites. Projity's solutions seamlessly open native Microsoft Project files so migrating is immediate. So users can also choose their platform, OpenProj is available on Unix, Linux, Mac or Windows. With the addition of Project-ON-Demand and OpenProj, companies are now migrating their entire Office suite to either SaaS or open source.