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

Comparison of the features of PMPlan© versus those of Primavera® SureTrak® and Microsoft® Project

Feature (Select green/blue text to view details about feature)	PMPlan	Project	SureTrak
Interactive Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) view development	Yes	No*	No
Activities per Project	32,000	Unlimited	10,000
Can input narrative objective/scope per activity/task	32,000 characters	256 characters	No
Can input notes per activity/task	32,000 characters	256 characters	470 characters
Generate a rich text file of the WBS with objectives, notes, and other information in Outline form for import into most word processors.	Yes	No	No
Custom Columns/Fields	Yes	Yes	Yes
Custom Fields with Calculations	Yes	Yes	No
Interactive Gantt view with project outline	Yes	Yes	Yes
Smallest Scheduling Unit	1 day	1 min	1 hour
Number of Auto-Formated Levels in Gantt View	6	2	2
Custom Calendar by Task and Resource	No	Yes	Yes
Multiple Tasks on one row	Yes	Yes	Yes
Interactive Logic Network view	Yes	Yes	Yes
Logic relationships with lead or lag	Yes	Yes	Yes
Logic Tracing Guide	Yes	No	Yes
Labor Resources	Yes	Yes	Yes
Handle Salary actions	Yes	Yes	No
Handle Job Categories and track cost variance between actual resource rate and job category rate	Yes	No	No
Material Resources and other fixed costs	Yes	Yes	Yes
Interactive Resource Total Loading Table (Row – WBS elements / Columns – Resources). This feature allows rapid initial costing of project)	Yes	No	No
Costs and Resource Rollup to upper levels	Yes	Yes	No
Always see Total Project Cost when resource loading	Yes	No	No
Prevents Resource Loading at upper levels	Yes	No	No
Feature (Select green/blue text to view details about feature)	PMPlan	Project	SureTrak
Interactive Resource Loading by Activity Table (Rows – Resources / Columns – Activity Loading Periods (daily, weekly, or monthly)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Interactive Resource Loading by Individual Table resource (Rows – WBS elements / Columns – Periods (daily, weekly, or monthly)	Yes	Difficult	No
Auto-leveling of resources	No	Yes	Yes
Resource Driven Activity Duration	Yes	Yes	Yes
Level (move) Resource over-allocation from one resource to other resources	Yes	No	No
Number of colors displayed for allocation levels	6	2	2
Loading views can display Full Time Equivalents	Yes	No	No
Material Details per activity with Description, Vendor, Part Id, Unit Type, Cost per unit, Basis, and Quantity by Period.	Yes	No	No
Travel Details per activity with Travel between, Persons per trip, Days per trip, Airfare per person, Per Diem per person, Ground costs per trip (car rental, taxi, etc.), Basis, and Quantity by Period	Yes	No	No
Easy to schedule multi-resources per activity	Yes	No	No
Can define Cost Accounts/Work Packages and provide report	Yes	No	No
Can flag Deliverables and provide report	Yes	No	No
Can add custom fields	Yes	Yes	No
Graphic Spend Plan	Yes	No*	No
Define weekly workdays	Yes	Yes	Yes
Generate a Work Authorization Statement for each Work Package Subaccount with objective, deliverables required, schedule, and agreed budget, which becomes an internal contract between the Project Manager and the Work Package Leader	Yes	No	No
Provides Earned Value Methodology	Yes	Yes	Yes
Generates Graphic Performance Report that plots Planned, Earned, Actual Costs versus time. Also, plots Cost and Schedule Performance Indices	Yes	No	Partial
Can independently summarize multiple-projects	Future	Yes	Yes
Can merge project files	Yes	Yes	Yes
Customizable standard reports	Limited	Yes	Yes
Transfer table text to spreadsheet application	Yes	Yes	Yes
Multiple user access to shared projects	Future	Yes	Yes
Update of schedule status vai e-mail	Future	Yes	Yes
E-mail distribution of project information	Future	Yes	Yes
OLE automation	Future	Yes	Yes
User-definable Forms	Limited	Yes	Yes
User-definable Toolbars	Yes	Yes	Yes
ODBC connectivity	Future	Yes	Yes
Import MS Project files (*.mpx and *.mdb)	Yes	Yes	Yes

* Requires purchase of third-party add-on