"AN" Enterprise Solution 2

AlNik Solutions© PMPlan© Enterprise Software Tools For Project Management, and Workforce Planning and Forecasting! "Designed for Project Managers by Project Managers" Aligned with the Principles of the ANSI/EIA-748-A-1998 Standard for Earned Value Management (EVM)

User Feedback on AlNik Solutions and PMPlan!

AlNik Solutions relies heavily on user feedback to keep PMPlan up-to-date, and provides insight to the users organizational processes and procedures where they impact project management processes and procedures.

While the PMPlan products, and in particular PMPlan Enterprise, make every effort to adhere to the principals of the ANSI/EIA-748-A-1998 standard for earned value management (EVM), this standard does not dictate how an organization should implement the standard as it is applied to its processes and procedures, but it does dictate what the results of an organizations project management processes and procedures must achieve.

We have found through discussions with our customer contacts, that how each organization, or sub-group within an organization, proceeds to obtain the required results from their project management processes, are far from being standardized and all over the map. This is not to say that the ANSI criteria cannot be achieved, but that the processes for developing a plan and obtaining or developing data to obtain the results of the plan, as directed by the criteria, is quite often unique to that organization or group.

The challenge for us then is the process of integrating a PMPlan product into each customers organizational project management requirements, and providing custom support for their unique requirements. This is why good customer feedback is critical to AlNik Solutions.

What Users say about PMPlan Products and Support!

"...I've reviewed dozens of PM software packages and PMPlan is one of the easiest to get information into and has a wider range of desired features than most." "...as a program manager, the PMPlan application is so intuitive that I was able to develop my first plan without reference to help..!" "...The best feature PMPlan provides, always has been that the program starts with the WBS and is oriented around the WBS..! " "...a Superior negotiation tool, PMPlan dramatically illustrates to the client the cost, schedule and staff impacts in real time. Quickly and visually illustrates the answers for typical questions ...!" "...what went well during negotiations at the clients facility-- ...it was our contracting officers first experience with the client’s intensive look at technical activities, capabilities and cost basis. Again the star of the show, in addition to the project manager, was PMPlan. As our contracting officer stated more than once, without it there would have been no way to illustrate the technical objectives and then cut capability in an efficient manner with an instant re-cost." "...our complete disclosure during negotiation of activity listing down to the 6 levels, and again the team doing exhaustive pre-planning using PMPlan made the basis of estimate in-disputable." "...the project managers succinct technical prowess during negotiation and at illustrating to the client, using PMPlan, the effects of budget cuts and capability degradation or elimination." "...PMPlan illustrates the project phases and resource implications of milestones as well as the horizontal schedule and the fiscal relationships among them. ...this planning tool can articulate those 3 dimensions quickly to planners, clients and management. " "...in PMPlan, the budget screens can impart the global or detailed perspective with the superior features built into the user interface selections. This flexibility during time sensitive negotiations has been critical to proposal closure." "...PMPlan provides the complete package, and is not dependent on any other software investment, making PMPlan relative inexpensive when considering the cost associated with buying multiple packages to achieve the same result..!" "...we recognize and sincerely appreciate the patience, the hours of assistance, the continual questions from someone or other here, and the cooperation and support that you have provided to this process. We would not have succeeded without your help. "...I personally want to very much thank you...not just because of the exceptional PMPlan software that you are providing, but because of your continuous support and help.