Project Desktop 3.30 review

Intellisys Project Desktop is a visual tool to help plan and track business or home projects.

License: Shareware OS: Mac OS X File size: 12404K Developer: Intellisys, Inc. Buy Now Price: $159.00 Updated: 02 Aug 2006

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Intellisys Project Desktop is a visual tool to help plan and track business or home projects.

It helps you organize the tasks in a complex project, assign budgets, estimate completion times and costs, create dependencies between tasks, and automatically schedule the tasks in a logical way.

As the tasks progress, you can update status information for tasks. Gantt charts and customizable reports allow you to get a precise view of the progress of a large project.

Here are some key features of "Project Desktop":
Management features
High-level view of all tasks
Drill-down capability
Budgeting
Costing
Earned Value

Time tracking
Individual time-logging
Associate billing codes
Billing reports

Security
Multiple access levels
Allow/disallow project visibility

Project structure and creation
Hierarchical projects
Spawn new project from existing
Archive and restore projects
Cut and paste projects

Assignment/resource allocation
Multiple resources
Time conflict detection/correction
Book employee time against a project
Reassign projects
Custom work timetables

Scheduling
Automatic incremental scheduling
Explicit rescheduling
Level resources per task capability
Dependencies with lags
Constraints
Conflict detection and correction

Views
Different views for each resource
Resource allocation
PERT Chart/Critical path
Dependency analysis

Reports and printing
Customizable reports
Customizable graphs/plots
PDF output
Print task lists
Print Gantt/PERT charts

Support material for projects
Threaded discussions
Attach documents

Integration
Read/write MS Project files.

What's New:
Clearer dialog for name substitution when importing
Bulk change facility for project owner
Filter dialogs show active filters
Filter pane has a new "Clear all" button
When no filters match the user does not know if any filters are active
Drop-down boxes not behaving properly in Admin console
User defined columns not accepting date formats
Deleting users leaves some references to the user
Time templates with zero time are allowed - they should not be
Scheduling bug forcing scheduling to stop in certain cases
Enterprise - Admin page JNLP link pointing to incorrect application
Enterprise - Code certificate check happening every time the application is launched.