I. What is Sanplex?

Sanplex is an enterprise-grade, open-source project management software. It serves as a comprehensive platform integrating Program Management, Product Management, Project Management, Execution, Quality Management, DevOps, Knowledge Base, Agent (AI capabilities), Report (advanced BI and analytics), Workflow, Online Academy, Feedback Management, Resource Management, Company Management, and Personal Task Management. It covers the entire lifecycle and core processes of R&D project management.

Driven by a pragmatic management philosophy, Sanplex boasts rich functionality, streamlined operations, a modern user interface, powerful search capabilities, and versatile statistical reporting. With a robust architecture and flexible extension mechanisms, it also provides comprehensive APIs. Sanplex is dedicated strictly to professional R&D project management!

Sanplex highly integrates 274 modules and 2,265 features. Teams can achieve full lifecycle project management without relying on messy third-party plugins, making project management structured, organized, and free from administrative chaos.

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II. Deployment Options

1. On-Premise Deployment:

• Full Control: Maintain complete oversight of the software. Users can customize and configure the platform to meet specific business workflows, security compliance, and scalability needs.
• Data Security: Data is stored within your own infrastructure, providing maximum data security and privacy. You can implement your own encryption and access control policies to ensure sensitive information never leaves the internal network.
• Flexible Customization: The on-premise version allows deep functional, UI, and integration customization to meet highly personalized business requirements.

2. Sanplex Cloud (SaaS):

• Maintenance-Free & Out-of-the-Box: Sanplex Cloud requires no installation. It provides one-click upgrades to ensure you are always using the latest features, allowing your team to focus entirely on project delivery rather than IT maintenance.
• Scalability & Flexible Billing: Seamlessly scale user seats, storage, or processing power on demand as your business grows. This model offers superior cost-control advantages.
• Data & Resource Isolation: Built on advanced container technology, Sanplex Cloud ensures that CPU and memory resources are independently allocated. Data is physically isolated to guarantee absolute privacy and security.

3. Quick Experience:

• Demo Environment
• Start a Sanplex Cloud Trial
• Download the On-Premise Installer

III. Design Philosophy

Sanplex is built upon globally recognized management methodologies, including Agile, CMMI, and SAFe. The core architecture of Sanplex can be summarized as: 4 Management Layers, Mainstream Project Management Frameworks, and 8 Core Concepts.

1. Four Management Layers

The four layers consist of Program, Product, Project, and Execution. This structure perfectly aligns various organizational tiers, from strategic planning and product roadmapping to project planning and iterative development.

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• Products help clearly map out the company's strategic vision.
• Projects ensure the effective implementation of that strategy.
• Execution allows users to monitor the specific daily tasks of the team, ensuring the project stays on track.
• Programs coordinate the above three layers, helping executives oversee operations from a higher vantage point, optimize resource allocation, and enhance corporate competitiveness. This dual-track approach—from planning to implementation—progressively breaks down goals from top to bottom, ensuring manageable progress and quality for every role.

2. Mainstream Project Management Frameworks

Sanplex seamlessly integrates major management frameworks, including Scaled Agile, CMMI, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, and DevOps. This versatility satisfies diverse management scenarios and provides enterprises with flexible choices for their unique workflows.

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3. Eight Core Concepts

The eight core concepts are: Requirement Pool, Requirement, Task, Bug, Case, Code, Feedback, and Ticket.

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• The Requirement Pool acts as the starting point, gathering potential needs from internal and external sources. After review, approved requirements are allocated to specific Products for planning, initiating the R&D process.
• During R&D, Requirements are broken down into Tasks for execution and Cases for validation, while linking directly to Code and Bug tracking. Failed Cases seamlessly convert into Bugs, which are then resolved via Tasks.
• Once a product is released, the Feedback workflow collects user suggestions and evaluations. Urgent feedback can be immediately addressed via Tickets, or converted into new Requirements, Tasks, Bugs, or To-Dos for subsequent iterations.

IV. Why Choose Sanplex?

1. All-in-One Platform: Comprehensive built-in features eliminate the need to patch together multiple fragmented systems or plugins.
2. Agile & Efficient: A pragmatic approach that helps teams rapidly adopt Scrum, Kanban, or Waterfall models.
3. Open Source & Extensible: An open codebase with flexible extension mechanisms for easy secondary development and integration.
4. Modern Architecture: Built on a proprietary high-performance framework, ensuring stability, security, and an intuitive user experience.
5. High ROI: Compared to expensive traditional commercial ALM systems, Sanplex offers exceptional cost-efficiency and minimizes procurement risks.
6. Flexible Deployment: Choose between secure on-premise hosting or the hassle-free Cloud service.
7. Professional Support: Backed by an active community and a dedicated team providing continuous updates and timely technical assistance.

V. Main Features

• Program Management: Programs, sub-programs, and stakeholder management.
• Product Management: Products, requirements, plans, releases, and roadmaps.
• Project Management: Projects, tasks, teams, builds, burndown charts, designs, traceability matrices, reviews, configurations, reports, resource calendars, estimations, issues, risks, processes, opportunities, metrics, Test (formerly QA), training, and meetings.
• Quality Management: Bugs, test cases, test suites, test requests, test reports, automated testing, and test results.
• DevOps: Code repositories, CI/CD pipelines, artifact repositories, and app markets.
• Knowledge Base: Personal space, team space, product space, project space, and API documentation space.
• Report: Dashboards, pivot tables, charts, data tables, dimensions, and measurement items.
• Feedback Management: Feedback tracking, tickets, and FAQ management.
• Academy: Rich project management courses and practice libraries.
• Personal Task Management: To-dos, my tasks, my bugs, my requirements, and my projects.
• Company Management: Departments, users, groups, and permission control.
• Search: Powerful global search to locate any asset instantly.
• Extensions: Highly customizable architecture allowing modifications almost anywhere in the system.
• API: "What you see is API"—facilitating seamless integration with other enterprise tools.