ConceptDraw PROJECT

Professional Proactive Project Management©

Product Overview

Make use of ConceptDraw PROJECT to increase your overall business performance by effectively coordinating the planning of projects in your organization. ConceptDraw Project 4 will ease the processes of planning and sharing resources among several development teams, marketing groups, sales teams, research projects and many more. It lets you schedule any given number of projects in a single Workspace document, as well as easily share tasks and resources among them.

Using Microsoft® Project XML gives you the ability to share your project plans with colleagues or exchange data with Microsoft Project users, while the brainstorming tasks list in ConceptDraw MINDMAP lets you start a project from a scratch. You can also generate Excel, RTF or web-ready reports to share information about the current state of your project with clients and executives, or to perform necessary calculations.

Key Features

Project Views

Gantt view

Use this view to work with tasks, resource assigments and overview project timeline throught clear visual representation.

Resource view

This view designed to work with different resource information like names, types, costs and e-mails.

Project view

This view is essential fot multi project planning since it is a place for adding, deleting or editing projects.

Network diagram

Network diagram (PERT chart) view is a schematic display of the sequential and logical relationship of the activities which comprise the project. Use it to show earliest and latest start or finish dates of a task as well as to identify slack time.

Critical Path Management (CPM)

Critical Path analysis helps you identify which task completion is crucial for finishing project at the proper time and which tasks can be delayed. This method allows you to supervise the realization of your project goals by setting task priorities rightly and allocating all available resources in most effective way.
 

Advanced Editing

Project inspector

The floating dialogs lets users switch between tasks without closing the corresponding dialog area and instantly updates information entered.

Smart multi-selection

Ability to manipulate several tasks at once is very important to speed up project planning process. Select multiple tasks, resources or projects and manipulate them using Drag&Drop, floating dialogs and Copy&Paste

Information Sorting

Tasks, projects and resources sorting is essential for quick navigation in a project. It is the fastest way to find desired resource or to group tasks based on their cost, date or completion.

Coloring and filling

ConceptDraw Project 4 has the ability to set coloring and filling for almost any element on the screen. It is essential to highlight important tasks, group them with color or create impressive printings.

Text notes

You can add notes and comments to any task, resource or even project.

Filters toolset

Powerful filter constructor allows 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 tasks.
 

Multi Project Workspace

Common resource pool

Common resource pool lets you share resources between several projects.

Project embeding

Workspace allows to embed whole projects into other projects with all the task dependencies preserved and to synchronize changes made to any document.

Cross project linking

You can establish dependances between tasks that are in different projects.
 

Powerfull Reporting System

Great report collection

Project reporting system generates comprehensive reports about project activities, cash flow and assignments allowing to manage your projects and report its status to stakeholders.

Saving to Excel

Exporting reports into Excel format allows to use project data for inner accounting system and custom culculations.

Web-Ready reports

Use HTML reports to share information with clients, management and stakeholders via Internet.

Export to RTF

RTF reports are used for including project data into Microsoft Word documents.
 

Import/Export Capabilities

Compatibility with Microsoft Project

Exchange project data with Microsoft Project users with support for Microsoft Project XML. Read and work with files saved in Microsoft Project and easily share your files created in ConceptDraw PROJECT.

Integration with Mind Mapping software

Integration with Mind Mapping software launches projects easier by generating ideas and task lists for your projects in a mind map. Open outline files generated in ConceptDraw MINDMAP with ConceptDraw Project quickly moving a new project from idea to implementation stage.
 

Cross-Platform Capability

File sharing among Windows and Mac OS X

Thanks to cross-platform compatibility your can seamlessly share your project documents in multi-platform environment.