PlanningForce - Competitive Advantages
Most project software vendors are proud to propose web-based drawing tools for the management of your company, as if nice shapes and colors could help you, when speed, reliable schedules and pro-activity are what are required to meet today's challenges.
We, the creators of PlanningForce, don’t favor stunning, colorful marketing effects and don’t want to push you and your business into some new technological bubble just because it’s fashionable.
Our commitment to PlanningForce users is that they benefit from the most advanced and efficient planning technology and workflows. PlanningForce will help you bring innovation and performance to the heart of your business process: planning!
With PlanningForce, you will change to:
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1. Realistic planning dates
Project ending dates are very often unrealistic, aren’t they?
Why not change to reliable schedules? With PlanningForce, you add probabilistic and risk coefficients, take account of task difficulty or resource efficiency, and set priorities and goals to projects, so the scheduling engine can produce reliable planning dates and strengthen your management.
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2. No over-allocation
Have you ever seen someone be productive 300% of their time?
Nope! 80 or 90% seems more in line with reality. Resource-constrained planning means resources are the physical limit to workable planning. Drawing tools allow beautiful blue dreams. Reality needs you to make the most of existing resources based on their cost and capacity.
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3. Resource profiles
Can anybody carry out any type of task at any time?
Certainly not! So why would you be forced to ignore this obvious fact? Efficient scheduling needs coherent resource allocation! It means taking into account specific roles, skills, levels, efficiency, and calendars, so everyone can be scheduled and used consistently and efficiently.
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4. Automatic scheduling
Tired of hand-made calculations?
Hand-made scheduling is a tedious and time-consuming process that belongs to the last century. PlanningForce gives you the benefit of the most advanced planning technology to solve complex scheduling processes automatically and save you time and money.
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5. Simulation comparisons
It's impossible to generate more than one plan per file?
Wouldn’t it be nice to explore more than one hypothesis before releasing the plan! With PlanningForce, you generate as many planning simulations as you wish in the same plan and in the same file. Then, use KPI comparisons, apply score cards and display radar views, and, finally, deliver the best plan considering your goals and constraints. And in just a few minutes!
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6. Project planning history
One for all?
That sounds like a nice motto, but for planning, it's inapplicable! The last state of a plan may be the result of events throughout its life, but, wouldn’t it be more enlightening to keep track of all the different stages: the initial construction of the plan, the scenarios you assessed, the successive progress statuses, the events that forced you to change course and, finally, the new plan. Each of these is a piece of the history PlanningForce keeps to help you better understand your organization and its environment and become more and more efficient in the future.
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7. Realistic budgeting
Why do many projects fail?
Not because budgets are not monitored, but because initial budgets are very often unrealistic and considered in isolation of other projects. The PlanningForce process produces a budget and cash-flow forecast which includes your total project and resource portfolios. This unique process will enable you to select or reject projects on the basis of their real added value.
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8. Speed and performance
Do you experience lack of speed and performance?
In PlanningForce you create and manage your tasks, projects and resources on the spot. You plan and schedule them in seconds. And you assess complex scenarios, and make the right decisions in just a few minutes. Because your time is precious, PlanningForce’s quick response is priceless.
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