ConceptDraw Project 4 is the latest generation of project management product from CS Odessa that supports you in the management of the real-world constraints you are working under with your projects and helps you achieve successful results in a planned, structured and cost effective way.

ConceptDraw Project 4 is a premier planning tool that assists you in planning and tracking projects, organizing your business better, and collaborating with stakeholders more effectively. Its functionality helps you to:

• Define project goals
  
• Define the project as a set of manageable tasks
  
• Assign appropriate and necessary resources
  
• Build a appropriate team or teams to perform the project work
  
• Plan the work and allocate the resources to the tasks
  
• Monitor and control the execution of many projects
  
• Follow the progress of project performance with comprehensive Reports
  
• Close down the project when completed
  

Functionality

• Project view
  Project view is an extremely helpful and powerful mode for multi-project planning. Project view allows you to control the list of projects, and assists the project manager by giving them flexibility when they are required to add, delete or edit projects.
  
• Gantt chart view
  The Gantt Chart view is a graphical representation of a project that allows one to allocate tasks, assign resources and overview the project timeline in a simple bar chart format that can be easily understood by anyone.
  
• Resource Sheet view
  The resource sheet view contains the complete set of information for all resources (names, types, costs, etc.), and allows you to manage these resources over one or many projects.
  
• Resource Usage view
  The resource usage view displays resource information regarding tasks assigned to each resource in all of the defined projects. The Resource Usage view allows you to plan and manage the contracting of human resources, which are assigned to the different defined tasks in each project. This is a powerful view that gives you better control of your resources.
  
• Network Diagram view
  The network analysis or PERT view is used to analyze the inter-relationships between tasks and to define the dependencies of each task. While laying out a network diagram you can analyze the logic behind the task allocation and identify down time.
  
• Critical Path Management (CPM)
  Critical Path analysis is used in conjunction with Network analysis to identify the tasks that are critical in determining the overall duration of a project. You can use Critical Path management to supervise the progress of a project’s goals by setting task priorities and effectively allocating available resources.

Usability

• Multi Project Workspace
  Multi Project Workspace is extremely helpful to project managers when managing several projects to join several projects into one master project making all projects easier to manage because of the one vantage point. The Multi Project Workspace allows you to embed one project into another project with all of the task dependencies preserved along with the synchronization of any changes made in any associated document. In addition it is easy to quickly establish task dependences between tasks located in different projects.
  
• Powerful Reporting System
  The Report Wizard will help you generate comprehensive reports on project activities, cash flow and assignments. You can easily save your reports in any format that meets your purposes: HTML reports – to share information with stakeholders via Internet; Excel format - to use project data for accounting systems; RTF reports – to use in required documents and reports.
  
• Easy Project Dialog
  Floating dialog allows for the easy switching between tasks without closing the corresponding dialog area and instantly updates any of the information entered. This feature increases user efficiency when working with ConceptDraw Project 4 and makes the task of project management faster and more efficient.
  
• Smart Multi-Selection
  Smart multi-selection permits users to manipulate several tasks at once, this dynamically speeds up the project planning process. Select multiple tasks, resources or projects and manipulate them using Drag and Drop, floating dialog or Copy and Paste.
  
• Automatic date updating
  When the start date of a project has been changed, the automatic date updating feature changes all of the related task dating.
  
• Information Sorting
  Task, project and resource sorting is essential for quick navigation in a project. Task sorting is the fastest way to find a desired resource or to group tasks based on their cost, date or state of completion.
  
• User-friendly editing
  It is now easier to input and edit task information, you are able to use the “Enter” key to feed a new line and input a task. Navigation with arrow keys is now possible also. With Project 4 you can now also add notes and comments to any task, resource or project.
  Navigation between lines in the Gantt Chart view is now also possible. When moving between task lines in the Gantt Chart at the same time the corresponding task in the text view is also highlighted. It is now also possible to use a decimal point when you input percentages to Assign Resource allowing you to increase the efficiency of recourse management (example; now you can enter 50.2%, you are not forced to round to 50%).

Customization

• Font setting and Coloring
  ConceptDraw Project 4 allows you to change the font type and size for each line. Furthermore there are now icon buttons on the toolbar that allow you set the selected font size quickly.
  ConceptDraw Project 4 also has the ability to color almost any element on the screen. The ability to change colors is an essential tool for highlighting important tasks, grouping tasks by color and creating easy to read reports.
  
• Filters Toolset
  A powerful filter wizard allows you to create simple or complex filters based on a set of user-defined conditions. You can apply filters to tasks, resources and even projects to hide all unnecessary information and focus on desired results and tasks.
  
• Timescale control
  The keyboard and mouse buttons combination “Ctrl-Wheel-Scroll” allows you to do a “time-zoom”. It permits you to change the timescale in any manner that your project requires.
  
• Workspace optimization
  A wide set of features provides user flexibility in designing the workspace, you can easy modify columns with Column Customization Dialogue capability, and hide unused columns.

You can download a Trial version to test if it will suit your needs.

US$199.00 ConceptDraw Project