In our effort to automate project management scenario, ten top applications needed in synergizing user requirements capture, output assessment, quality criteria evaluation, work breakdown structuring, milestones, risk and dependencies analysis, were congregated to provide intelligent solutions to freelancers especially those who doesn't have the full luxury of staff to lean on. These applications open a doorway to what would seem to be an exponential proponent of managing broad projects without the lavishly elaborate number of staff working for you. Brace yourself for the tools that would pave way to an efficient project execution and measure, the top ten applications expedient to the critical chain involving all levels of project programming.
This is probably the most worn out expended application when it comes to developing projects. It is probably because Microsoft occupied 95% of the entire software user population. With that
being said, all applications sprouting in the market implicitly hinged on the Microsoft platform.
With Microsoft Project, you can create slots for resources and assign them to tasks as simply as entering data in a spreadsheet. The latest round of project management software is able to consolidate multiple projects, do comprehensive calendaring with schedule conflict analysis, support multiple work calendar formats, manage product life cycles, and integrate it all into the existing software base.
One of the hardest part of project initiation is the imposition of form operations, data entries, proposal reviews, and document consolidation. This is where Project Management Bundle comes in handy, to deliver the most scalable, easy to use document templates, featuring an automatic table of contents, page headers and footers, and interoperable pre-defined sections, tables,
charts, an approvals page, and much more.
Bundles feature the following contents: Project Standards Policy Kit, Statement of Work Process Kit, Project Planning Roadmap, Project Planning Checklist, Risk Management Process Kit, Troubled Project, Project Review Survey Kit, and Project Communication Process Kit.
One of the hurdles of every undertaking, whether big league corporate objective or a simple project, is the illustration of the of the conceptual framework, idea imaging, and task abstraction, Mindmapping software plays an essential role in transcending these ideas into visual diagram.
Openmind 2 Business functioned as a designer application to mirror the brain’s natural thinking process. This resorted to stir creativity and critical thinking, and speed up decision-making expedient to business urgency.
With an intuitive user interface to boot, Mindmapper 2008 continues to be one of the most dependable, formidable software that aids any enterprising professional handling big projects.
Unlike some of the mindmapping applications out in the market, the Mindmapper 2008 works a wonder by making use of keyboard shortcuts. The colored tabs were a welcome addition to an already array of features it has. Plus it comes with instructional videos all splattered with animation and frills for a visually captivating demo video.
Primavera has continued to be the leading trailblazer when it comes to the industry-level, edge-of-your-seat project portfolio management application including: (Primavera P6), Portfolio Selection and Management (Primavera ProSight), Enterprise Resource Management (Primavera Evolve), Document management, job cost and project controls (Primavera Contract Manager), Project Analytics and Risk Management (Primavera Pertmaster) and Cost versus schedule performance (Primavera Cost Manager).
A Project Control Specialist can tap its superlative feature in leveraging Primavera's more advanced tool capabilities to manage documentation, communication, contracts and to implement process standardization and automation.
Probably the best Java based report and analytics tool, Reportmill 8 provides powerful developer framework to create dynamically generated, well-formatted content for internet application servers. ReportMill is currently being used at many large scale corporations and customer sites, delivering comprehensive content kits such as: business forms, financial statements, itineraries, invoices, and product catalogs.
Easy to access, faster, and in Java engine-only form, making it less resource-starved application available to provide and integrate completely new 3D graphing application for project analysis and measures.
Site: http://www.reportmill.com/
Project Managers require data in real-time, comprehensive, and drawn from an easy-to-acquire business intelligence server. Journyx provides information-on-demand projects scheduling and mapping tools that would provide billable time reporting, repository data management, and a whole slew of cost accounting system. Analyst and executioners would definitely love to have this especially that this one comes in freeware version as well. It’s a must have tool to expedite expense approval processes and accurately handle employee schedules and accruals.
Site: http://www.journyx.com/
This will serve as your concierge cum personal information management software in a box. If you are embroiled on a complicated task of keeping aligned with your contacts, prospects, and devious projects, you may want to get this. You can use it to enter every last thing on your to-do list, as well as upcoming appointments, birthdays, anniversaries, meetings, or other commitments or important events.
Coined as a database software at your fingertips, it continues to serve project managers to record notes, send letters, send e-mail, schedule and track events. Or even retrieve the letters that you have sent before. You can also create reports or contact charts for your next client presentation.
‘Forget it not’, that will be the new buzzword of the project manager who is always on the go, but has his smartphone as a tool he can’t leave home without. Managing contacts has never been easy with few taps and clicks, Agendus ratchets up the PIM capabilities of your Windows Mobile, Palm OS, and Blackberry devices to make it easier to schedule and organize your life in a way that intuitively makes sense. It offers a plurality of customization options to choose from, from color coding to icon cropping, it seamlessly dazzle and untangle complex contact index into a
simplified order and categorization.
Site: http://www.iambic.com/
With Microsoft’s immense popularity when it comes to software development, resisting an indulgence to the MS Office 2007 like a denial to civility. It’s by far the best selling productivity suites, for professional and personal use, for project management and for lifestyle mainprise. Office 2007 is quite a new interface, highly customizable contextual tabs and style
galleries and the almost-top-of-the-line Enterprise edition includes all five main applications under one bundle- Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Groove, OneNote, and Access, all of them are geared towards easy collaborative features handy for project implementation.
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