Project Plan and Easyprojectplan Excel Project Plan Gantt Software for Windows

Project Planner Enterprise server
$0 - Accord Software & Systems Inc.

Project planner enterprise is a scalable client / server software which lets you manage all projects in your enterprise. All members in the enterprise can view/update/modify task status in their projects. Using the built-in metrics, Smartworks project planner lets you predict the slippage in terms of cost/schedule for all projects in the organization. The edition is scalable based on the size of your organization.

The price starts from US$399 for a 5 seat license (Home office). The other editions include small office (10 seats), Mini (20 seats), Professional (50 seats) and Enterprise (unlimited seats for a single geographical site)

Several improvements have been done to Project Planner 4.8 based on customer feedback.

List of new features in Project Planner 4.8:

Earned Value Management
Resource Dependent Calendar
Drag and drop attachments
Create projects quickly and easily using Project creation Wizard
Plan a project by splitting a project into well defined tasks in a spreadsheet interface
Summary view to show the project health based on number of tasks and project duration
Add multiple resources and assign a task owner to a task
Change the task status in terms of percentage completion to mark progress
Printable Gantt chart equivalent to the plan
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 and Global risk database

A 30-day risk free trial version of the software can be downloaded from

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Project Planner - PE
$79.95 - Accord Software and Systems Pvt. Ltd

SmartWorks Project Planner is a software to plan, manage and track a project. It provides the flexibility to split a project into well-defined tasks in a spreadsheet like interface. This software allows a project manager to define calendar, create dependencies between tasks, mark milestones, assign resources, set priorities, maintain risk database, manage cost, view Gantt charts and more.Allows you to import Plans created in MS-Project as well.

Project Planner has following features:
Earned Value Management
Resource Dependent Calendar
Drag and drop attachments
Create projects quickly and easily using Project creation Wizard
Plan a project by splitting a project into well defined tasks in a spreadsheet interface
Summary view to show the project health based on number of tasks and project duration
Add multiple resources and assign a task owner to a task
Change the task status in terms of percentage completion to mark progress
Printable Gantt chart equivalent to the plan
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 and Global risk database
Percentage allocation of resources for better resource allocation

Free 30-day trial is available at,

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Project Planning and Management
$26 - Business Spreadsheets

The Project Planning and Management template is designed as a generic and affordable Excel based solution to plan and manage any project. The ability to build the projectâ??s budget as tasks are identified facilitates the processes of business case proposal, valuation analysis, and securing the required funding. Project dynamics can be altered and performance monitored with best practice Earned Value Analysis throughout the complete project lifecycle. Key features of the Project Planning and Management template include: Ability to define project budget as tasks are defined; Pre-define project phases, task titles, holidays, and other key project parameters; Creation of task dependencies and timing constraints; 'Auto-timing' function calculates optimal project schedule automatically; Gantt scheduling chart with embedded task information; Project status reporting based on best-practice Earned Value Analysis; Emailing of participant task lists and creation of individual participant workbooks to enable updating of task progress from remote files.

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EasyProjectPlan Excel Project Plan Gantt
$100 - EasyProjectPlan.com

Download the DEMO at www.EasyProjectPlan.com

LICENSE INCLUDES UNLIMITED DISTRIBUTION TO PROJECT TEAM MEMBERS AND UNLIMITED VERSION UPGRADES

EasyProjectPlan simulates an enterprise task management system using an easy-to-use Excel file that requires no installation program or add-ins.

EasyProjectPlan is designed for distribution to project team members so they can easily input their tasks, dates and status using a user-friendly Excel interface.

EasyProjectPlan features include:

- Easy-to-use Excel project plan.
- Synchronize tasks with Microsoft Project and Outlook.
- Create and Print Gantt Charts using Excel.
- No installation program required.
- Implement in any company IMMEDIATELY.
- Distribute to anyone using Excel.
- Compatible with all versions of Excel.

Download the DEMO at www.EasyProjectPlan.com

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MPP2PPR converter
$0 - Accord Software & Systems Inc.

Free tool to convert project plans created by MS-Project (MPP files) to Smartworks Project Planner (PPR) format. Users can now share the MPP files with others who do not have MS-Project, freely. Now your customers can view the progress of their project in terms of gantt charts , Network diagrams and other graphical charts even if they do not have MS-Project installed in their system. However the user cannot modify the project plan or print it.

Users can use the freeware tool Smartworks Project Planner reader which can be downloaded from to view the converted project plans. The current version of the project planner reader runs on Windows 95/98/ME/NT/XP/2000/2003.

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Multi Project Planner
$148 - Adaptive Planning Tools

Multiple concurrent projects competing for shared resources is at the very focus of Multi-Project-Planner.
The project activities are booked on a schedule, common to all work teams.
I.e. the Gantt charts of the projects are superimposed upon this common schedule.
This way both resource allocation and the interrelationships between the activities are handled in one and the same view. A feature called 'Hot potatoes' lets the system keep track of all the loose ends and little things while you concentrate on the planning issues at large or on a single issue at a time. Employees can be automaticaly allocated to work teams based on competencies and avaliability. Template projects can be formulated and dropped on the schedule several times. Just in time planning is possible using template projects and the "Best Fit Monitor". Decision points can be attached to each project activity. They will raise a flag when due.
Look and feel of the familiar planning board.
Interoperability through integrated web server.

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