Features

See also Advantages and Benefits  

• Functional
  • Plan Authoring
    • unique project representation
    • intuitive & seductive visual authoring with sophisticated auto layout and navigation of project logic in multiple views (Network, Matrix (Design Structure Matrix - DSM), Timeline (Gantt), Spreadsheet)
    • multiple grouping hierarchies (in user defined Dimensions) for activities (in all views)
    • extensive filter and highlight mechanisms
    • comprehensive resource model
    • conventional project mgt constructs
    • multi interdependent projects (horizontal and vertical integration)
    • import from other planning systems (including Excel)
    • intelligent tools that cut, copy and splice reusable project logic from auditable sources into new project models (c.f. standard networks, fragnets etc.)
  • Plan Analysis
    • automatic activity classification based on topology
    • uncertainty (risk) analysis
    • nominal critical path (and chain) analysis between two activities
    • Design Structure Matrix method (DSM)
    • impact analysis of working with immature information
  • Plan Optimisation
    • Discrete Event Simulator - DES
    • multiple resource scenarios for what if analysis
    • automatic schedule generation through sophisticated optimisation, DES, and trade-off surface analysis
    • automatic resource de-confliction!
    • choice of schedules can take into account robust measures for time and cost as well as maturity
  • Plan publishing
    • baseline, live and unlimited what-if project schedules can be viewed and saved within the tool
    • to other planning tools (including roundtripping with MS Project)
    • filtered (tailored) Excel ToDo lists
    • HTML
    • 'wallpaper' (whole network or filtered) print-out
  • Plan Execution
    • capture of actual and forecast progress (in tool or imported from another system e.g. MS Project synchronisation.
    • variance and BRAG reporting
    • export to earned value reporting tools
    • impact analysis (using the Integrated Master Schedule - IMS), rescheduling and selective rescheduling due to slippage and local changes
    • intelligent reprogramming of plan due to significant changes in circumstances

• Non-functional
  • multi-user
    • concurrent and asynchronous, geographically distributed modelling
    • role-based permissions based on context (work breakdown, work centre etc)
    • relational database provides authentication and authorisation
    • audit record
  • configurable automatic error checking and warnings
  • extensive i/o