It is easy to use and maintain, as administration can be carried out remotely through a Web interface. The product enables users to view and update the status of projects in real time via a familiar Web interface on any Java-enabled computer. The system is a vehicle for keeping team members and executives current on project status. Spider is well suited for project managers, business managers, department and resource managers as well as planners. Because Spider is designed to be used by multiple members of project teams, Welcom has included a means for regulating access to data with access and editing rights assigned to users based on their needs.
Users can drill down from the project level to the activity level and then to the resource level.
Activity View allows users to view and edit activity progress data. This view also shows the resources assigned to the activities and allow users to edit those as well. Activities need not have resources assigned to them to be edited in this view. Resource View provides access to resource progress data and allows users to update resource progress. This can be done separately from associated activity progress.