Smartworks - Project Planner 4.9 - An affordable alternative to MS-Project

Smartworks - Project Planner

Smartworks - Project Planner: Project Planner-PE 4.9 lets you track and manage your projects in the way you had always wanted. It offers you Gantt, Network, Resource, Estimation, Risk, Plan, EVM views to get a broad understanding of where your project is heading. Improvements have been done to Project Planner 4.9 based on customer feedback. Features: Create projects quickly and easily using Project creation Wizard Plan a project by splitting a project into well defined tasks Printable spreadsheet like interface to edit the project plan Summary view to show the project health based on number of tasks and project duration Ability to add multiple resources and assign a task owner to a task Mark the task progress by changing the task status in terms of percentage completion Printable Gantt chart to analyze the progress with respect to time, resources or status Critical path in Gantt Chart for in-depth project analysis and dynamic calculation of critical path and task slack Calendar to set the working days in project, also ability to set number of working hours in a day Tasks filters for easy viewing of tasks Network Diagram to see the project flow Automatically generated reminder for lagging tasks Estimation view to project completion based on the current status Customizable warning mail configuration, for lagged tasks and tasks which are about to slip Inbuilt risk management with mitigation and contingency plans and risk related graphs Save, update, baseline and retrieve project versions Sharing projects by saving the plan in MS Excel, XML, HTML and Project Planner Reader formats Capability to read MS-Project MPP file format Cost graph and resource usage graphs which are plotted dynamically EVM to show the project performance in terms of time and schedule Global risk management by admin Global calendar A 30-day free trial version of the software can be downloaded from http://www.smartworks.us/demo/pp-pe.exe Get a huge 50% discount by entering code '2009discount'