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PlanView

PlanView provides all-browser 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.

PlanView is delivered by user role. That could be managers, employees, and others throughout

the enterprise—as well as partners, vendors, and service providers. PlanView Online is an

integrated project and workforce management system, is 100 percent Web software, and features

● Personalized Web portal

● Self-administration by staff

● Collaborative critical path engine

● Support for your project office

● Viewing workforce capacity

● Integrated time and expense tracking

● Project delivery model

PlanView uses an enterprise Web portal to manage workplace access to information and

applications. The enterprise portal is the workers' interface to the PlanView intranet or extranet.

The features available to each role are tailored for each customer.

Managers, employees, and business partners sign on to PlanView through a dynamically built

Web page called HomeView. Each person's HomeView portal reflects his rights to the information

in the central repository and the unique needs of his role in the enterprise.

When the user signs on to the system, his or her profile is recalled, and a unique set of features is

placed on the menu for his or her use. PlanView calls these FeatureSets, and they provide access

to the rest of the functions of the PlanView suite. For instance, a project manager has access to

her project portfolio, the scheduling engines, and approval of status information. A contributor will

report time, expenses, and remaining work and update his skills.

Users' favorite Web links for discussion groups, project or department Web sites, as well as

executables for key software like a virtual meeting software, project sites, and methodology

content providers are all easily accessed.