RationalPlan is a software family designed to assist project managers along the life cycle of their projects.
It comprises three different products:
a) RationalPlan Single Project
b) RationalPlan Multi Project
c) RationalPlan Project Viewer
This product is suitable to manage independent projects (no common resources, no interrelations between projects).
It has the most important features for a project management software:
associate general project information (name, notes, links, assumptions, constraints, risks)
create, edit and delete calendars
build schedules
create and assign resources to tasks
good cost management abilities
project tracking tools (critical path, mark completion value for tasks, work and cost timephased information)
export to Microsoft Project and Microsoft Excel
import from Microsoft Project (.xml format)
printable reports (to printer or to file - pdf format)
strong Print Preview interface
Is the right choice if you have to share company resources across projects and to manage interdependencies between projects.
It has all RationalPlan Single Project features, and some more:
resources data (work, cost, overallocation) are calculated considering their assignments in all projects
allow links between tasks pertaining to different projects
analyze all your projects' data with Project Portfolio view
The Viewer is an additional tool necessary to share your project in his original format (.xrp). Basically it is useful to any stakeholder that need to check and overview the projects' evolution into their smallest detail, without making changes to the schedule.
The major features of the Project Viewer are:
opens files created either with Single Project or Multi Project version
all original views and data are available
export to other formats and printing are active
view/hide critical path command is enabled