Comments on: RationalPlan http://www.isoftwarereviews.com/rationalplan/ Software Review Rating Voting Tips... Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:02:17 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tiberiu Ghioca http://www.isoftwarereviews.com/rationalplan/comment-page-1/#comment-44971 Tiberiu Ghioca Sun, 11 Jul 2010 07:31:08 +0000 http://www.isoftwarereviews.com/rationalplan/#comment-44971 @rob We have just launched RationalPlan Project Server which is in Beta and freely available for everyone. This should solve your collaboration needs since users will now have the possibility to concurrently access project data. They will no longer work with files but rather using a server. @rob We have just launched RationalPlan Project Server which is in Beta and freely available for everyone. This should solve your collaboration needs since users will now have the possibility to concurrently access project data. They will no longer work with files but rather using a server.

]]> By: rob http://www.isoftwarereviews.com/rationalplan/comment-page-1/#comment-33368 rob Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:48:23 +0000 http://www.isoftwarereviews.com/rationalplan/#comment-33368 The RationalPlan interface is nice and clean. It's bright and uncluttered and enables you to get to all of the features, stages of project management from the one screen. There are lots of elements that can be brought on the screen which can just as easily be hidden. So you are able to get the depth of information as well as simple overviews. The data exports are 'limited' to excel. though if you have a handle on Excel you can run all sort of reports and filters to get only the data you need to communicate. The collaboration features are a bit limited. While you could work off a network drive, once a user if on it all are locked out. I've not used this but have been advised. And I know that it will be a big problem for us. Though being able to share and monitor resources across the whole organisation would be valubale. You can also send tasks information to 'Resources' (ie. people and things) by email. Which means it just pops into their existing work flow / communication channels. These emails also have ical attachements that can open in outlook and other caledar programs. The MultiProject feature allows resources to be shared and assigned between projects and it can generate gantts that show you how different projects lookin relation to each other. You can attribute prices to People and Resources and as the are assiged to work and progress work, the costs are accrued. And you can also 'level resources', to ensure that each person or resource is not over or under committed. It doesn't have loads of bells and whistle but If we ever graduate to the likes of MS Project, it would be because Rational Plan proved the genre's worth as a vital business tool. The RationalPlan interface is nice and clean. It’s bright and uncluttered and enables you to get to all of the features, stages of project management from the one screen. There are lots of elements that can be brought on the screen which can just as easily be hidden. So you are able to get the depth of information as well as simple overviews.

The data exports are ‘limited’ to excel. though if you have a handle on Excel you can run all sort of reports and filters to get only the data you need to communicate.

The collaboration features are a bit limited. While you could work off a network drive, once a user if on it all are locked out. I’ve not used this but have been advised. And I know that it will be a big problem for us. Though being able to share and monitor resources across the whole organisation would be valubale.

You can also send tasks information to ‘Resources’ (ie. people and things) by email. Which means it just pops into their existing work flow / communication channels. These emails also have ical attachements that can open in outlook and other caledar programs.

The MultiProject feature allows resources to be shared and assigned between projects and it can generate gantts that show you how different projects lookin relation to each other.

You can attribute prices to People and Resources and as the are assiged to work and progress work, the costs are accrued. And you can also ‘level resources’, to ensure that each person or resource is not over or under committed.

It doesn’t have loads of bells and whistle but If we ever graduate to the likes of MS Project, it would be because Rational Plan proved the genre’s worth as a vital business tool.

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