Released on: 11, December 2007
, Author: Lucian Ioan
, Audience: Software related
Stand By Soft has released RationalPlan Multi Project, a strong project management software application developed to assist project managers in creating plans, tracking progress, allocating resources, managing budgets and analyzing workload. Whether your application is in the area of construction, engineering, services&consulting, software development or a simple student project, RationalPlan can help you to complete your project on time and within budget.
RationalPlan is designed as an affordable alternative to Microsoft Project with some extra-features like multiproject management and it is covering project management area from WBS construction, project planning and scheduling to critical path management, over allocated resources detection, progress tracking, cost estimation, etc. Gantt chart support as well as various time line reports are also provided. It offers you the most important capabilities of a good project management software while being able to operate on various platforms starting with Windows, Mac, Linux and all other Java enabled platforms.
Key reasons for using RationalPlan:
provides a clean way to break down your project, build schedules, allocate resources, and manage budgets
manage your company's projects as a multiproject tree structure and share resources between them
a step by step project guide walks you through the project management process so you can lay down a project plan immediately
get resources and finances under control (realistic cost estimates mechanisms, screening cash-flow time distribution for tasks and resources)
"what if" scenarios capability via multiple undo/redo levels allow to make changes and safely get back
track project evolution in terms of completion, time and costs
brings project's critical issues to your attention (over allocated resources, critical paths with configurable slack from which activities become critical)
Here are some key features of RationalPlan:
Project Planning
Define project and associate general information (name, notes, links, assumptions, constraints, risks)
Create, edit and delete calendars
Build work breakdown structure
Create dependencies between tasks, set lead/lag time
Manage task properties such as constraints, fixed cost
Resource Management
Define human/equipment and material resources (equipment can be assimilated with human)
Define specific working time for each resource
Assign resources to tasks
View time phased information about resources work and cost
View over allocated resources and resources that work overtime
Project Tracking
View project critical tasks depending on a customizable slack
Mark the task progress by changing the task completion percent
View time phased information about tasks cost
Miscellaneous
Easy to use Gantt Graph
Project Guide assists you step-by-step
Icon Bar with specific commands for every view
Export to Microsoft Project
Printable reports
No annoying dialog windows unless strictly necessary
Cross-platform (work on all major operating systems starting with Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Linux and all other Java enabled platforms)
Here is a list with all the important changes of this version:
Improved printing support (including printing to .pdf files)
Increased execution speed
Other improvements and bug fixes
RationalPan Multi Project costs $93 and it is available from http://www.rationalplan.com. You can download a fully-functional trial version from http://www.rationalplan.com/download.php.
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RationalPlan Multi Project - Project management software
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