Smartworks - Project Planner 4.9

Smartworks - Project Planner 4.9 offers an effective tool which helps you to track and manage your projects in the way you had always wanted. It offers you several views ( Gantt, Network, Resource, Estimation, Risk, Plan, EVM...) to get the broad understanding of where your project is heading.

Several improvements have been done to Project Planner 4.8 based on customer feedback. SmartWorks Project Planner is such a software which helps project managers in Planning cycle, Scheduling Estimates, Cost Estimates, Risk Management, Critical Path and PERT Analysis, Resource Management, Gantt and Network Diagram analysis, timely status of the projects.

Personal Edition

1. For use by a single person only
2. Installation has only the dll and the respective client
3. Need not configure to any server as the database is stored on the local machine
4. Select a project and open
5. No concept of sending mails
6. There is no hierarchy of users.The user using the application has all the privileges

Multi-user edition

1. Number of users depends on the number of licenses
2. Installation has the dll, respective client and the server
3. Need not configure to any server as the database is stored on the local machine
4. Have to configure the server before logging into any project
5. Select among the listed projects and provide user id and password to login to the selected project
6. Mails are sent to the work group to convey the updates. For e.g.mails are sent on status change, on filing new reports, when a new resource is added
7. User hierarchy like admin, manager, leader and so on is supported

Major Features:

1. Easy project creation and capture project initiation phase information with project initialization wizard
2. Cost graph for effective project cost management
3. Effective Risk Management by identifying project specific risks and with Global Risk Database
4. Inbuilt risk management with mitigation and contingency plans and risk related graphs
5. Analyze effectiveness of risk management with Occurred risks Vs Identified risks; Planned Vs Unplanned Occurred risks etc. Get to know the effectiveness of contingency and mitigation plans
6. Analyze Critical tasks and workflow of the project with Gantt and Network diagrams
7. Gantt chart can be saved as an image and in HTML format
8. Project start date can be edited to shift the entire project
9. Resource dependent calendar, resource distribution resource allocation, resource availability views
10. Earned Value Management view and graphs
11. Hide and unhide project
12. New looks to PP - skins
13. Get the status of the project anytime since project participants can take ownership of their tasks by logging in to the plan
14. PERT calculations and PERT analysis for Optimistic, Realistic and Pessimistic project end dates with graphs
15. Project end date projection depending on the current status of the project
16. E-mail notifications to Manager and leader and concerned project participants about important activities of the project
17. Project graphs and reports for easy analyzing of project progress
18. Support for task notes and attachments.Drag and drop attachments. Export task notes
19. Project templates for future reuse in case of similar work
20. Compatibility with XLS, MPP, XML
21. Ability to share selected project data by importing them to PPR, XLS, XML and HTML formats
22. Maintain data security by user hierarchy and login features
23. WBS by an easy editable and printable spreadsheet like interface to divide the whole project into sub-tasks to define what the project is
24. Collect statistics of a project using Project Graphs
25. Capability to read MS-Project MPP file format
26. Printable Gantt chart to analyze the progress with respect to time, resources or status
27. Network Support provides the ability to log on to a project from any machine in a networked environment
28. Project tracking made easy since project participants take ownership of their tasks
29. Support for task properties like summary , priority , milestones, duration, status etc
30. Summary view to view overall status of the project
    

Enhancements:

• Export projects to MPX
• Gantt chart in quarterly resolution,
• Support for Network disgrams
• PERT analysis
• Project summary
• Other reports
  

Requirements:

• IBM PC Pentium
• 64 MB RAM
• 500MB free disk space