"I was very satisfied using EMDESK. EMDESK really helped us a lot in the proposal preparation of our project."

"I was quite happy with EMDESK because it really fascilates the proposal preparation. I appreciate the idea to create the proposal based on a global database."

"I found working with EMDESK quite intuitive and very helpful, especially when we were in hurry to write our proposal with many partners in a short time."

"The software looks very impressing and it was easy, logic and understandable to fill in information."

"I enjoyed working with EMDESK. I found it rather easy to find my way through a complete new application for me. Thanks for letting me use this application."

"The system works very fine and provides real value."

"I found EMDESK a very clever, easy and above all, a very friendly system, specially related to the descriptions of the tasks and packages. You all perform a great job. Congratulations."

"I found it very easy and logical to use."

"I'm pleased with the services EMDESK provided throughout the complete proposal writing phase.I like how it handled document versioning. "

"I must say that EMDESK helped me to prepare a proposal in less than 3 weeks which is really good. In general, my opinion is that is a very good software."

"I have used EMDESK for the preparation of three project proposals in FP7. Once you have understood the logic behind the input structure of EMDESK, it proves to be an easy-to-use tool, which facilitates greatly not only the compilation of data but also – and that seems of even more importance to me - any subsequent rearrangement of individual sections or items. This is especially helpful when it comes to creating and revising tables and charts. For example, whenever it is necessary to change specific data (e.g. dates, titles, numbers) in a table or even the whole work package structure, all tables and charts linked to these changes are updated automatically as well, which allows for quick adaptations and is therefore an invaluable help particularly in the early proposal preparation phase, when things keep changing. As the document can be accessed by all registered project partners at any time, the development of the proposal becomes a very transparent process for the whole project team. I have experienced the helpdesk as always very supportive and quick in resolving any reported problems. All in all, I consider EMDESK a very helpful and convenient tool for proposal preparation and would use it any time again."

"I have been very content with using the EMDESK service. EMDESK is a great software and has hit the proposal preparation requirements, spot on. It helped me to reduce the proposal preparation time by more than 30%. Using the built-in versioning capabilities, we were able to reduce the overall overhead of keeping a master document by more than 50%. I have been using your system for 3 years now and have to congratulate the team for their work."

"My experiences with EMDESK are very positive. It's a clear, convenient, self-explanatory and user-friendly system. Access procedures are easy, uncomplicated and access can be granted fast. The overall system is clear, for instance for project selection, activity and task selection. And it's really useful that customisation automatically ensures that project details are only displayed for our own company. Also the warnings that company details, such as key personnel descriptions, when entered, are final and cannot be amended unless with the coordinator's intervention, are helpful. I particularly found it a major advantage that I could do the input immediately into the document by entering the text or through copy and paste, in contrast to some other document-sharing systems. The fact that you can see which users are online and have been working on the document for how long can be useful; it gives some idea of how active some of the members are. And, of course, the output in DOCX is also a very neat feature. I've used several systems and would love to see this to be used as a general system for all/most projects. This would be a tremendous improvement. Seeing that in some cases document-sharing is still not being used, such a general user-friendly system like EMDESK is a great tool."

"EMDESK is a useful and functional web service, which facilitates the management of EU projects financed under the 7th Framework Programme. EMDESK has positively evolved since its launch and the administration services react promptly to resolve issues. More importantly, EMDESK is always open to hear recommendations for improvement and to act accordingly for its implementation. EMDESK differentiates itself from other competitors due to its user-friendly interface and the wide range of functions it offers. In short, EMDESK offers good value for money. We are quite satisfied with EMDESK and have eventually consider it for projects we have in the pipeline."

"There are many reasons why the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft has decided to conclude a framework contract with EMDESK. A main advantage of EMDESK is that it is especially tailored to the requirements of research projects in the 7th Framework Programme - thus it is possible to administrate the proposal creation as well as the negotiation and project implementation with only one system.

After the evaluation by the project management team of the Fraunhofer EU-Network and the Fraunhofer SIT (Institute for Secure Information technology) EMDESK clearly convinced us because of its usability. It also fulfills the strict data-protection standards of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft."

"EMDESK is an impressive system that is very well put together - especially as it improves to address large research teams."

"We found EMDESK quite useful when writing our recent FP7 call bid for the following tasks: Making a template for our bid document, with all the tables required according to the EC guidelines, and particularly cross-referencing the work packages, milestones and efforts across tables; and collecting the information about individual participants - organisations and individuals. It was useful that this information could be collected in parallel and at the convenience of the multiple parties."

"I found EMDESK to be a valuable tool and can warmly recommend its use."

"EMDESK is quite good as a structuring tool for the proposal, especially when working with partners that don't have much experience with EU proposals. And when starting with EMDESK, it's an immense help in the early phase of project preparation. EMDESK proved helpful as a structuring tool, especially with the formal parts."

"I would like to say that EMDESK is a pretty good tool and most probably I'll be using it forwards on - it has quite a lot of added value compared to the "typical" mail-circulation/SVN approach".

"In general I think EMDESK is really good and a huge improvement over previously available tools."

"I was quite surprised and pleased to discover EMDESK and its features. I fully agree with such an innovative approach, from document-centric to semantic-centric and model-driven, allowing a single common reference for much information, and making the proposal building much more efficient. All initiatives should be fostered that can help project partner to ease the submission process, especially in SMEs where the participation in such proposals is time-consuming and at first quite cumbersome.

"I must say that the EMDESK platform was a very effective mean of proposal preparation; within few minutes I was able to navigate within the platform despite my not extensive experience in FP7 proposal preparation.

"The main benefit of EMDESK to me was simply not having to battle with Microsoft Word too much. Documents get corrupted very easily when multiple people on different systems work on the same document, especially as it travels over email. EMDESK helps a great deal in that respect. The auto-generation features for the Gantt Chart, WP tables and other are also very useful. I feel EMDESK is a positive direction for proposal writing."

"EMDESK is a good tool. For collecting input from multiple partners it is particularly valuable. The traditional method of sending Word documents by email is difficult, especially if there are many partners contributing to the same document. Using a software like EMDESK actually enables one to finish the entire Part B in clean formatting without having trouble with people having different versions of Word, different formatting manners.

"I would like to point out the following advantages of EMDESK: It is a tool that follows the required structure of proposal writing. The visual design of the input forms is very good. It is an easy to use tool. In summary EMDESK is a very good help to prepare a proposal."

"I liked EMDESK, thanks for this. It's a nice tool that provides a good overview of the things that need to be filled out. In particular in the beginning phases of the project proposal it was of much help."

"A very strong point of EMDESK is the very good integration of the proposal's logic. It is really pleasant to enter the values only once and then to be sure that whatever is changed, it will be correctly computed. The overall structure and organisation is also very valuable, it helps building a proposal by adding small chunks."