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PLANTA Project is a Project management software
Project management software
Project management software is a term covering many types of software, including estimation and planning, scheduling, cost control and budget management, resource allocation, collaboration software, communication, quality management and documentation or administration systems, which are used to...

 for the planning and control of projects that share the same resources. PLANTA Project is the successor to the multi-project management system PPMS, which PLANTA has been constantly improving since it was introduced in 1980. Unlike the predecessor PPMS, PLANTA Project now offers process-oriented
Process management (computing)
Process management is an integral part of any modern day operating system . The OS must allocate resources to processes, enable processes to share and exchange information, protect the resources of each process from other processes and enable synchronisation among processes...

 project management (based on the DIN 69901-2 norm, PMI
Project Management Institute
The Project Management Institute is a not-for-profit professional organization for the project management profession with the purpose of advancing project management.- Overview :...

, PRINCE2
PRINCE2
PRojects IN Controlled Environments 2 is a structured project management method endorsed by the UK government as the project management standard for public projects. The methodology encompasses the management, control and organisation of a project...

 or customer specific) and has a completely revised workflow-oriented interface. The new user interface of PLANTA Project is based on the intuitive programming language Python
Python (programming language)
Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...

, an open source product, and MS .NET
.NET
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 with panel technology which enables users to position windows as required.

PLANTA Project has been certified by independent PM-Experts as a flexible multi-project management software with particular strength in the areas of project and portfolio controlling
Project Portfolio Management
Project portfolio management is a term used by project managers and project management organizations, , to describe methods for analyzing and collectively managing a group of current or proposed projects based on numerous key characteristics...

.
“It’s strength lies in the combination of a well-developed resource and time management module with coherent portfolio management and budgeting functionality.”

Description

There is no limitation to the number of projects that can be planned in PLANTA Project, this means that the complete company project portfolio from project ideas through to planned projects with ressources and costs can be administered with the tool.
A special feature of PLANTA Project is the clear representation of resource planning
Resource planning
Resource planning may refer to:* Enterprise resource planning * Manufacturing resource planning * Distribution Resource Planning * Human resources...

 showing at a glance which resources are available on a particular date. The planning module provides a detailed, hierarchical work breakdown structure
Work breakdown structure
A work breakdown structure , in project management and systems engineering, is a deliverable oriented decomposition of a project into smaller components. It defines and groups a project's discrete work elements in a way that helps organize and define the total work scope of the project.A work...

 together with milestone planning and milestone trend analysis as well as the representation of the schedule as a Gantt.

International Enterprise Project Management

PLANTA Project, along with the additional functional components PLANTA Portfolio for project portfolio management, PLANTA Request for Request Management or Change Management
Change management
Change management is a structured approach to shifting/transitioning individuals, teams, and organizations from a current state to a desired future state. It is an organizational process aimed at helping employees to accept and embrace changes in their current business environment....

, PLANTA Sales for the integration of business functions into project management, as well as PLANTA Content for automatic generation of websites and the creation of manuals, is an international Enterprise Project Management
Enterprise Project Management
Enterprise Project Management , in broad terms, is the field of organizational development that supports organizations in managing integrally and adapting themselves to the changes of a transformation....

 System.

Application areas

The multi-project management system PLANTA Project is been in use since 1980 over a wide range of company types from IT, R&D, engineering and organization departments of midsize and large companies (ca. 20-5000 users).

Multi-project functionality

  • Entire project overview with core information and project manager estimates for important project parameters.
  • Project templates for easy project creation.
  • Risk Management with risk check lists allowing quick evaluation of project risks.
  • Classification of projects is also possible (e.g. for ABC analysis).
  • Numerous reports allowing evaluation of project progress and costs (project status reports allowing the archiving of key project figures, milestone trend analysis, Earned Value analysis, variance analysis).
  • Simulation of planned projects is possible and after project approval the project can be opened for time bookings.
  • Document management: Links from tasks and project structure elements to documents.
  • Multilingual: Language change at the click of the mouse, available languages: de, en, sp, fr, it, pt, ru, cz, pl.

Interfaces

Microsoft Project
Microsoft Project
Microsoft Project is a project management software program, developed and sold by Microsoft, which is designed to assist a project manager in developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads.The application creates critical path...

, Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available both as a separate application as well as a part of the Microsoft Office suite...

, SAP
SAP ERP
The SAP ERP application is an integrated enterprise resource planning software manufactured by SAP AG that targets business software requirements of midsize and large organizations in all industries and sectors...

, Baan. Further interfaces are possible via customizing.

Provenience, partners

The software was developed as a part of a BMFT research project at the University of Karlsruhe and is presently used by around 50.000 people over 450 company licenses, primarily in Germany, Switzerland and other european countries.

Partnerships: Microsoft Partner (Silver Independent Software vendor), member of GPM - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement e.V. (German Society for Project Management), Alliance Partner von Fujitsu Siemens Computers

General technical specifications

Modern 3-tier client/server architecture (C/C++), thin client and web client: rapid handling of large data volumes, centralized data set, shared pool of resources and management of access rights and users (role-based), easy definition of individual roles.

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