Project plan | Software for multi-project management

Classic project planning

Quick creation of a project using template management
Support of classic and hybrid planning methods
Simple creation and modification of project plans
Import of all project data from templates, projects and MS Excel
Definition of resource, project or individual cost-rates down to activity level
Definition of billing status for each activity and planned costs
Planning interface to MS Project
Project creation from quote items
Calculation methods (‘forwards’/’backwards’), including critical path and configurable conflict reports
Project plan calculation with consideration of approved and/or planned absences
Option to create any number of baselines using current planning and/or other baselines
Option to create any number of links between activities throughout the multi-project structure
Displays showing main and sub-project structures, including all activities, as WBS or Project schedule (GANTT chart and network plan)
Interactive GANTT view (drag & drop)
Linking of ToDo lists, ToDos, documents and risk assessment with activities
Central ToDo lists and Kanban boards

Free definition of costs and investment types and their structure
Top-down budget assignment for main and sub-projects monetarily and/or in man days
Definition of budget defaults in time intervals (month/quarter/year)
Quick definition of the budget through the transfer of ‘plan’ and ‘actual’ data
Budget calculation based on profitability
Target revenue recorded manually or based on confirmed quotes
Quotes with freely definable status
Definition of fixed-price or work performed quotes
Quote value based on the project plan or freely-definable items
Linking of quote items with activities and consideration of ’actual‘ values in billing
Creation of activities from quote items
Invoice proposals with payment deadlines for invoices based on quotes or actual data
Invoice proposals by means of a serial function for freely-definable time intervals
Linking of invoice proposals with milestones

Freely-definable project life cycle (workflow and rights)
Freely-configurable status reports including submission cycle and sending of emails
Generation of key figures (efficiency, profitability and profit)
Monthly plan notifications
Evaluation of revenue based on the cost-to-cost (CTC) or earned value methods (EV)
Dashboard control of all relevant information
Work effort forecasts and milestone trend analyses
Quick and simple adjustment of percent complete at project and activity level
Performance overview using comparisons of target, plan, baseline, actual, estimated
Tabular or graphic views of effort and remaining effort, percent complete, cost and earned value development
Cost and budget control
Simple and quick adjustment of the plan values to estimated work effort
Creation of project invoices
Archiving of projects
Report generator

Freely configurable fields (e.g. status, probability and impact) for defining overall and individual risks
Linking individual risks with activity planning
Extension of risks by individual fields
Evaluation and controlling of risks
Quick and simple creation of all stakeholders
Freely configurable fields (e.g. type, influence and conflict potential) for stakeholders
Linking stakeholders to individual activities
Involvement of stakeholders in status reporting
Graphical evaluation of stakeholders

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