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This page assists you in locating products and vendors associated with project management.

Project management is the judicious allocation and efficient usage of resources to achieve timely completion within an established budget.

Project Management Tools

Primavera TeamPlay http://www.primavera.com Vendor: Primavera Systems, Inc. Product Description: It is an integrated solution with Web-enabled, client/server, and desktop software solutions that provides role-specific tools to satisfy each team members needs, responsibilities, and skills. It provides comprehensive information on all the projects in the enterprise, from executive-level summaries to detailed work assignments for each team member. It helps IT organizations match people with roles and proficiency levels, and then uses that information to select the right person for each assignment. Primavera TeamPlay is multi-user, multi-project management software with best-of-class scheduling and resource management capabilities. TeamPlay supports multi-tiered project hierarchies; powerful resource scheduling and leveling using resources roles and skills; customizable Gantt, PERT, and resource views; and user-definable data elements. TeamPlay sets the standard for enterprise-wide project management performance and analysis capabilities. Demo: There is no demo of the software available, but there is a procedure for downloading the software. Evaluation: This site is very comprehensive in conveying to potential buyers of their products and what the products offered can do for a company in helping them forecast and make decisions. E-mail: info@primavera.com Phone: (610) 667-8600, or (800) 423-0245 Fax: (610) 949-6944

Dekker Trakker Management Information Center (MIC) http://www.dtrakker.com. Vendor: Dekker Trakker. Product Description: A Management Information Center represents the control panel for an organization. Executives can look at summary information based upon Accomplishment Parameters, Schedule, Resource, Cost, Earned Value, Revenue Recognition and ABC Performance Measurements to gain operational insight. TRAKKER MIC provides a front end, web enabled analysis tool designed to help management drill down into issues that require immediate attention. No other analysis software tool has been designed to integrate ABC/M and Earned Value into a single database to answer tough business questions. Demo: No demo provided Evaluation: MIC is web enabled and provides schedule/process flow analysis, earned value analysis, costing, and capacity. These various processes are extremely valuable to the project manager. Email: info@dtrakker.com Phone: (800) 433-5537 Fax: (909) 889-9163

Microsoft Project 98 http://www.microsoft.com. Vendor: Microsoft, Inc. Product Description: Microsoft Project 98 is a powerful application that you can use to efficiently plan, manage, and communicate project information. It is designed for anyone who oversees a team, plans a budget, juggles schedules, or has deadlines to meetóin short, anyone who manages a project as part of their job in today's busy working world. No matter how large your project, or how many people on your team, Microsoft Project 98 helps you to transform your organization into a more agile, responsive, customer-oriented company by focusing on project needs. Evaluation: With the flexible new scheduling engine in Microsoft Project 98, you can plan and track your projects more effectively and identify and respond to conflicts before they happen. Demo: No Contacts: No direct E-mail address offered, but provides page to compose E-mail questions or comments.

PlanView http://www.planview.com/. Vendor: PlanView, Inc. Product Description: PlanView provides all-browser-based software within a Windows environment for managers, employees and others throughout the enterprise--as well as partners, vendors and service providers in the extended enterprise. The software helps manage projects and other work, update employee information, and manage the workforce. PlanView optimizes the staffing of multiple projects by taking into account the skills and true availability of your workforce. Thus PlanView enables an enterprise to measure all work and to manage to its full capacity. Demo: YES, free demo available on CD-ROM Evaluation: This site is excellent for companies looking to implement decision making and problem solving applications, which use reasoning on prior experience. Email: jdurbin@planview.com Phone: (512) 346-8600 Fax: (512) 346-9180

Artemis Views Release 4 http://www.artemispm.com Vendor: Artemis Management, Inc. Description: Artemis Views Release 4 is the first enterprise business solution to bring project planning, cost control, resource tracking, and project analysis to the heart of your organization. Using a unique role-based approach to software design and implementation, Views 4 provides unprecedented performance and integrity for managing critical business projects. Using familiar Windows-based interfaces, Views offers separate role-based applications for project planning, resource and activity tracking, project cost control, and executive analysis and reporting. This ensures that every level of your organization has immediate feedback on how schedule and personnel changes will impact productivity downstreamóincluding deadlines, activity resourcing, and project costsóthe cornerstones of business success. Demo: Free demo CD-ROM offered. Evaluation: Artemis Views applications follow the look and feel of Microsoft's Office suite of desktop applications, making familiarization and use simple. Phone: (800) 477-6648 Fax: (303) 531-3140

Artemis 7000 and 9000 EX http://www.artemispm.com. Vendor: Artemis Management, Inc. Product Description: Artemis 7000 and Artemis 9000/EX comprise an English-like command language that incorporates project management facilities together with a database optimized around these functions. These make the Toolset products ideal for the development of a wide range of solutions to problems not normally covered by ëoff the shelfí packages. Both ARTEMIS 7000 and ARTEMIS 9000/EX offer a number of major components integrated into one system. Evaluation: Artemis Management Systems can also provide development environments to enable Clients to develop custom solutions built specifically to their needs. Demo: No Phone: (800) 477-6648 Fax: (303) 531-3140