Smartworks Trial and Project Planner Enterprise Server 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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TrialwareDialog ActiveX Control
$0 - Ten Mile Software

TrialwareDialog ActiveX Control is for software developers who are looking for a simple way to implement a trial version of their software product. The TrialwareDialog ActiveX Control works similar to the Microsoft Common Dialog control and simplifies the process of creating a trial version of your product by exposing properties and methods to create a simple trial dialog window to display to your users. Select from two trial styles: number of days since first run or number of total runs. You select the number of days or runs by which to limit the trial; display your own company name, company web site URL, product name, description, and version, and copyright text on the trial dialog window; "Buy" button allows you to interface the trial dialog window with your own purchase/registration methodology; sensitive data such as initial and last run dates and run counters are encrypted for your protection.

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Trialware Submit
$0 - Trialware Professional Association

Trialware Submit (TSubmit) is a free Windows program that aids developers in submitting their trial software to software download sites. The program includes a browser window to allow site submission from within the program itself. Software authors can easily visit a software site's home, search, submit and update pages. TSubmit can used to keep track of sites submitted to, published and previously published. The program includes all company and program information stored in a convenient tabbed dialog screen. An individual item can be copied to the clipboard merely by clicking on the desired item. After visting the submit page, authors submit their software to a site by pasting these items into the relevant form fields. The power-paste features allows quick pasting of common data items. In addition, many form fields can be automatically filled in at the touch of a keypress. Completed forms can be saved to improve the auto-fill process next time the site is visited. E-mail submission can be sent with the touch of a button. TSubmit also allows authors to store their password and login ID for each site. The software contains a site update feature and has the capability to support multiple languages. TSubmit currently contains up to 340 software sites.

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Smartworks-SO
$799.95 - Accord Software & Systems Inc.

SmartWorks SO is an edition of SmartWorks that supports 10 licenses. It supports 10 clients connectivity at a time and is similar to the Enterprise edition in features, except for the number of clients.
Smartworks is a cost effective business productivity tool which helps you to manage projects , track issues and measure the progress in each of your business activity. Smartworks-PE includes award winning project planner, meeting manager and Smart tracker plugins to help you manage your business. It includes the Project Planner, SmartTracker and Meeting Manager.
Project Planner software is an excellent project management tool that can enhance the productivity and help managers to execute projects successfully and easily. It helps 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, EVM.

SmartTracker is an issue tracking tool used to track issues from the time they are filed till they are closed. The process includes submitting an issue, solving / adressing the issue and verifying it. Typical entities that can be tracked are project defects, purchase orders, assets, documents and so on.
Other features available are reminder mails, customisng fields, query generator, security features, spell checker.

Meeting Manager is a software used for scheduling and tracking meetings. Includes features of meeting minutes, pre and post action points, meeting reminders, attendance confirmation, meeting summary, meeting status. Effectiveness of a conducted meeting can also be measured.

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Softwarekey Trial Creator
$0 - Concept Software, Inc.

Windows 32-bit software developers can use SoftwareKey Trial Creator, a freeware program, to create fully-functional 30-day trial versions of their software program without modifying a line of source code. Potential customers will not be able to re-install the created trial software to gain time after the trial period has expired. The program is simple, easy to use yet powerful. A 30-day trial can be created in minutes.

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bcTrialVersion.NET
$19.95 - BESTCODE.COM

bcTrialVersion stores information about the trial usage of the software and decides if the software has expired or not when asked.
Information regarding the trial period is kept in Windows registry in either plain or encrypted form.
Users of the component can supply their own encryption algorithms if they want to do so.

The trial version types can be one of the following:

a) Expire in n number of days after first try (or installation if the installer creates the required registry information)
b) Expire on date.
c) Expire after n number of tries.

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