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FastTrack Schedule 10 (Academic) for Win $99.95 The best way to plan and manage your projects Your Mac project management software for organizing, tracking, and reporting all your project goals. Great for both new and experienced project managers, FastTrack Schedule 10 helps you manage your small to mid size projects easily and effectively. New Features: New Windows Interface with Custom Themes With the sleek new Ribbon interface, all tools are organized into task focused groups right at your fingertips to speed your scheduling. Prefer a traditional menu based interface? No problem. Simply switch to a classic theme or add classic toolbars to the Ribbon to create a workspace that matches the way you work best. Base Calendars and Work Calendars Choose base calendars such as standard, 24 hour, and night shift calendars, or customize your own. The new base calendars and improved work calendars can now be defined per task, so that your projects can have an unlimited number of work calendars for all your unique calendaring requirements. Effort Driven Scheduling For tasks that can be completed faster by adding more resources, use effort driven scheduling for simple schedule compression. Automatically adjust task durations as resources are added or subtracted, while keeping the total work for a task constant. Assignment Contouring Choose from eight built in work contours or customize your own for the ultimate ease and flexibility in resource scheduling. Assignment contouring enables you to quickly re distribute your resources’ efforts on a task for those special cases and must meet deadlines. Resource Usage Graphing Now it’s easier than ever to monitor resource workloads while making assignments in the Schedule View. New Resource Usage Graphs at the base of the Gantt chart provide a detailed snapshot of a resource’s free and busy time, enabling you to make precise assignments and effectively manage resource costs. Image Columns Picture this. With FastTrack Schedule’s new image columns, you can add pictures of task items, staff, resources, designs, progress photos, and more, directly into column cells. Images automatically scale as thumbnails to match row heights and display as larger images when you hover over them. New Bar Styles and Gradients Make your schedules as impressive as the work involved in your projects. New bar styles, milestones, and gradients will transform an ordinary schedule into a presentation quality project report that’s sure to stand out in a crowd—especially with clients and colleagues. Getting Started Screen Launch FastTrack Schedule, and you’ll have instant access to everything you need to get started quickly including templates, your schedules, and online resources including video tutorials—all in one central place. Enhanced Resource Information Form Now you can store even more details for your project’s resources. FastTrack Schedule’s redesigned Resource Information Form organizes work schedules, rates, contact information, and photos. Fixed Duration For tasks that requi

FastTrack Schedule 10 (Academic) for Mac $149.95 The best way to plan and manage your projects Your Mac project management software for organizing, tracking, and reporting all your project goals. Great for both new and experienced project managers, FastTrack Schedule 10 helps you manage your small to mid size projects easily and effectively. New Features: New Mac look, Intuitive New Interface Refined and redesigned, the new Mac interface is easy to use and a perfect fit with the simplicity of Mac OS X. Inspired by the elegant iWork suite, the new context sensitive Format Bar is full of key scheduling tools to speed your planning and tracking. You can even customize the toolbar by dragging and dropping the features you use most. Base Calendars and Work Calendars Choose base calendars such as standard, 24 hour, and night shift calendars, or customize your own. The new base calendars and improved work calendars can now be defined per task, so that your projects can have an unlimited number of work calendars for all your unique calendaring requirements. Effort Driven Scheduling For tasks that can be completed faster by adding more resources, use effort driven scheduling for simple schedule compression. Automatically adjust task durations as resources are added or subtracted, while keeping the total work for a task constant. Assignment Contouring Choose from eight built in work contours or customize your own for the ultimate ease and flexibility in resource scheduling. Assignment contouring enables you to quickly re distribute your resources’ efforts on a task for those special cases and must meet deadlines. Resource Usage Graphing Now it’s easier than ever to monitor resource workloads while making assignments in the Schedule View. New Resource Usage Graphs at the base of the Gantt chart provide a detailed snapshot of a resource’s free and busy time, enabling you to make precise assignments and effectively manage resource costs. Image Columns Picture this. With FastTrack Schedule’s new image columns, you can add pictures of task items, staff, resources, designs, progress photos, and more, directly into column cells. Images automatically scale as thumbnails to match row heights and display as larger images when you hover over them. New Bar Styles and Gradients Make your schedules as impressive as the work involved in your projects. New bar styles, milestones, and gradients will transform an ordinary schedule into a presentation quality project report that’s sure to stand out in a crowd—especially with clients and colleagues. Getting Started Screen Launch FastTrack Schedule, and you’ll have instant access to everything you need to get started quickly including templates, your schedules, and online resources including video tutorials—all in one central place. Enhanced Resource Information Form Now you can store even more details for your project’s resources. FastTrack Schedule’s redesigned Resource Information Form organizes work schedules, rates, contact information, and photos. Fixed Duration Fo

Microsoft Project 2007 (Training CD) $64.95 Product managers need to track project resources, time and cost, schedule tasks efficiently, exchange project information, and communicate with resources while maintaining control over the project. This can be a daunting task unless you have the right tools, and know how to use them. In this course VTC author, Brian Culp, teaches users Microsoft Project 2007, an invaluable project management tool. Learn how to start projects, create and edit tasks, assign resources to tasks, share project information, and much more.

Project Professional 2010 (Academic) for Win $189.95 Project Professional 2010 The Most Powerful Way to Manage a Wide Range of Projects and Programs Features Simple and intuitive user experience — plan, schedule and successfully complete important work Enhance productivity using a sophisticated yet easy to use tool with built in reporting and powerful collaboration capabilities Select the right projects, optimize scarce resources and manage costs with unified project and portfolio management A flexible and powerful work management solution that integrates, extends, and scales for the enterprise Visually select the right mix of resources—it’s as easy as drag and drop with the new team planner. Enhance team collaboration to realize results—connect your teams with Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 task list and status synchronization. Effectively Plan, Collaborate & Deliver Microsoft Project Professional 2010 gives you a powerful, visually enhanced way to effectively manage a wide range of projects and programs. From meeting crucial deadlines, to selecting the right resources and empowering your teams, this Online Project Management Software delivers new and intuitive experiences in collaborative project management within individuals, teams and the enterprise. What’s New—Top Features Microsoft Project Professional 2010 is a project managers software that gives project managers a new and easier way to manage wide range of projects and programs. With all of the new updates and visual enhancements of Project Standard 2010, Project Professional 2010 delivers more with at a glance resource management and team collaboration tools using Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010, to successfully complete all types of projects. And, utilizing Project Professional 2010, you and your organization can realize the results of unified project and portfolio management by adding Microsoft Project Server 2010. Microsoft Fluent User Interface Work more efficiently with the simple and intuitive Microsoft Fluent user interface—new graphical menus and a familiar experience provide the tools you need to plan and manage your project. Task oriented tabs and contextual menu groupings reveal powerful features, making it easier to get started and realize results. Learn about features and rich formatting controls quickly with descriptive tooltips and drop down galleries. Simply be more productive by choosing your own menu options, quick access toolbar settings and setting defaults. Save to XPS or PDF. Quickly share, print, and publish project information from one location using the new Microsoft Office Backstage view. Excel Like Flexibility & Ease Enhanced copy and paste makes it easy to share information effectively with other Microsoft Office applications while retaining formatting. Add columns dynamically by entering data without having to first select the data type. Simplify data entry with auto complete which displays a list of previously used values to select from. Automatic text wrap elimi

ConceptDraw PROJECT v6 for Mac,Win $74.95 What is ConceptDraw PROJECT? ConceptDraw PROJECT is a full featured project management solution that keeps you on top of your data through project dashboards. Project dashboards display all key performance indicators on one screen so you can take immediate action whenever necessary. ConceptDraw PROJECT contains an extensive tool set to help project managers. The rich data visualization capability that is provided by ConceptDraw products builds project dashboards, one click reports, multi project views, Gantt charts, and resource views. The rich visual data presentation supports important project management tasks such as critical planning and change management. Visualize Project Data With ConceptDraw PROJECT, you always have current status available through project dashboards, one click reports, and multi project views and also Gantt charts and resource views. Your teams and stakeholders are always current and you have the information you need to take action quickly. The Project Dashboard Consolidates project data onto one screen See all of your key performance indicators on one screen Updates data dynamically Monitor status based on the most current project data Represents data visually Understand your current status from the dashboard, recognize changes to project status as it occurs, and see when critical performance limits are exceeded Helps you take the right action Instantly recognize what action you need to take now ConceptDraw PROJECT enables you to generate reports with one click. You do not need to configure settings, walk through dialogs, or click through wizards. Sharing reports is simple because you can output them to HTML, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project, or RTF. By integrating with ConceptDraw Office and ConceptDraw Solution Park add ons, you can extend your reporting capability with numerous resource, schedule, and task reports. Because your project data is accessible through traditional formats such as Gantt charts and resource views, you can engage in in depth planning and analysis. Expand your diagramming and chart functionality through ConceptDraw Solution Park add ons and integration with ConceptDraw Office. Plan Projects and Manage Change ConceptDraw PROJECT provides all the tools necessary to plan and manage projects. You can create tasks, assign resources, and load resource costs. By creating a subproject, you can analyze the impact of a change request before approving the change to the project baseline. Track Project Documentation and Knowledge ConceptDraw PROJECT allows you to track the completeness of your project documentation by tracing tasks back to requirements documents or identifying tasks that have no documentation. Team members know where to get the highest priority and current specifications so they are able to learn more about their current tasks. Project managers are assured of project quality because their teams are using the proper documents. Portfolio managers and executives know if docume

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