I can tell you from the PM role, it has provided me with easy insight into all of our projects and goals both internally and externally. Here is a brief overview of some of the Redmine functionality from their website:
- Multiple projects support
- Flexible role based access control.
- Flexible issue tracking system
- Gantt chart and calendar
- News, documents & files management
- Feeds & email notifications.
- Per project wiki
- Per project forums
- Simple time tracking functionality
- Custom fields for issues, projects and users
- SCM integration (SVN, CVS, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar and Darcs)
- Multiple LDAP authentication support
- User self-registration support
- Multilanguage support
- Multiple databases support
An online demo can be found here: http://demo.redmine.org.


