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Aimed at those who won't put up with limits in their project management
software, Primavera SureTrak 3.0 provides an excellent all-around package for
getting control of time, resources, and budget. With excellent built-in Web and
collaborative capabilities, this is a program that can simplify any busy
manager's life.
To get started, SureTrak 3.0 bundles the KickStart tool, which lets even
those new to project management software get going productively. In testing,
this wizard asked us a series of questions about project phases, goals, people,
potential obstacles, and the like, with extensive help from a built-in library
of sample entries for many different industries. (If you have been using
Microsoft Project, SureTrak supports importing and exporting to .MPJ files,
which is another way to start.)
SureTrak features extensive support for the two traditional views for
tracking a project: Gantt charts, which show a time line of various tasks, and
PERT charts, which show logically connected diagrams of tasks along with
dependencies. We liked the support for distributing a variety of reports over
the Web using HTML. The product also allows managers to e-mail reports to other
team members, plus you can add hyperlinks to any report or view.
Another notable feature included here is the ability to define custom
resources (for instance, costs per employee, based on skill sets and project
roles), activity codes, and even specialized calendars. The control
over costs in SureTrak is certainly one of the product's strengths. You can
track every cost associated with a project and see exactly where you are with
your budget at any point within the project cycle.
Finally, at a time when most printed manuals are being downsized in favor of
online help, we appreciated the SureTrak's 500 pages of tutorials and
documentation. Overall, Primavera's product delivers a well-thought-out project
management package, one that can be used effectively by beginner and expert
alike to track even large projects effectively. --Richard Dragan
Communicate with professional-quality reports and graphics. SureTrak Project
Manager combines ease of use, power, and affordability. With SureTrak, you can
create schedules graphically, as well as point and click to create relationships
between activities. It is ideal for resource planning and control on small- to
medium-sized projects.
SureTrak Project Manager 3.0 by Primavera systems is a project planning and
control software product, which provides a corporate solution to the changing
face of project management. SureTrak is an exceptional tool for creating
schedules, managing resources, analyzing goals and updating projects. SureTrak
enables users to view, organize, sort, query, compare and evaluate project data.
This power is embedded into every facet of SureTrak through its use of activity
and work breakdown structure codes. This indispensable flexibility provides for
pivoting project data into more options and solutions.
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