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ADVANCED PLANNING

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Advanced Planning is a powerful role-based project and resource management application. Designed for project managers, project planners and resource managers, Advanced Planning combines multi-user project planning, resource and allocation scheduling, cost control and graphical reporting capabilities. This makes Advanced Planning a valuable platform for managing the priorities and objectives that drive your business.

With Advanced Planning, organizations can establish project consistency, improve project visibility and collaborate across the entire business. Using proven project management disciplines and processes, Advanced Planning helps you optimize resources and manage activities to meet project deadlines and budgets. It also offers a variety of graphical reporting options to document and analyze progress.

Advanced Planning ensures performance and data integrity at every level of the enterprise. Through standard SQL-based Application Protocol Interfaces (APIs), Advanced Planning can be easily integrated with existing business applications, such as ERP applications.

Comprehensive Project Planning And Resource Scheduling

Advanced Planning provides advanced capabilities for managing an organization’s portfolio of projects. This enables more effective planning and scheduling of core resources by facilitating the following relevant tasks and activities:

• Build and update project schedules using graphical Gantt or spreadsheet-style interfaces• Manage/compare several project versions simultaneously using multiple instances of Graphical Gantt Editor• Assign resources to activities across multiple projects• Establish and maintain inter-project relationships• Prioritize activities during scheduling• Maintain up to 99 different versions of each project• Graphically compare a selected project version with a baseline version• Conduct comprehensive “what-if” analyses• Quickly view and edit multi-project scenarios without merging or duplicating data• Generate milestone tasks to improve visibility

Maintain up to 99 different versions

of each project

Benefits

• Browser-based access to projects with Artemis Views Project Management• Comprehensive multilevel, multi-project planning, scheduling and reporting• Scalable to thousands of projects and users• Integration with Artemis Views Project Management and industry-leading Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications• Search for qualified and available resources• Assign tasks and manage staff with a powerful resource search engine across multiple projects• EVMS interoperability with CostView     

Gantt-style barchart editor provides real-time project entry/edit (including copy and paste, drag and drop) capability with full critical path analysis and graphical reporting in single or multi-project mode.

A resource search engine and interactive resource histograms allow assignment of project staff based on skills and/or availability.

Advanced Planning ensures performance and data integrity at every level of the enterprise. Through standard SQL-based Application Protocol Interfaces (APIs), Advanced Planning can be easily integrated with existing business applications, such as ERP applications.

For creating new projects, Advanced Planning offers complete control over resource and project definition, including the following capabilities:

• Create templates and library projects — including standard WBS and OBS — to support corporate processes and standards• Define reference data to be shared between all projects, resource pools and consolidation structures• Build complex resource profiles• Implement comprehensive security functions with control read/write access authority to project plans• Globally update changes to project data in single or multiple projects

BENEFITS

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Barchart editor combined displayof plan and histogram

Enterprise Project Planning To manage projects across the entire enterprise, Advanced Planning uses a graphical planning structure to organize and navigate projects according to a user-defined hierarchy. Project planning features include the following capabilities:

• Work in either tabular or graphical formats• Navigate projects by hierarchy and launch directly into project plans• Consolidate projects using any of the user defined data fields (e.g., OBS, WBS and project manager).• Isolate projects and compare target dates and budgets at any level, with actual deadlines and costs, using “traffic light” displays.• Identify budget or schedule problems using an “early warning” system

Resource and Cost Management Advanced Planning provides comprehensive capabilities for resource and cost management in project environments, enabling you to perform the following activities:

• Assign an unlimited number of resources per activity or project• Allocate resources by various techniques, including total content or at a constant rate• Support fixed duration or resource-driven activities• Display resource usage of individual and skill groups• Establish schedule using resource and time constraints• Provide automated financial forecasting, budgeting and earned value (EV) analyses• Integrate with Artemis Time Reporting for effort-tracking, automated timesheet booking and progress updates• Prepare standard cost reporting - including actual, budget and estimate calculations• Establish time-phased resource rates• Break down complex programs of work with planned costs and target dates into projects via a graphical planning structure

PROJECT PLANNING

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Assign an unlimited number of resourcesper activity or project

Project portfolio Indicators

Reports And Graphics A comprehensive set of graphical reporting tools ensures that presentation of your project information meets your corporate standards. This includes an extensive range of pie, line and bar charts, Gantt and PERT charts, and histograms to cover all aspects of single and multiple project reporting. Your reports can also be customized with logos, fonts, backgrounds for a fully customized look and feel.

Integrated Software As part of the Artemis Views® suite of integrated, role-based applications, Advanced Planning can be combined with other Views applications to create a complete solution for enterprise project planning and scheduling, activity and resource tracking, cost control and Earned Value Management (EVM), and executive reporting and analysis. All Views applications are based on a centralized, industry standard SQL database. As a result, changes to project schedules, deadlines and resources in Advanced Planning are immediately visible in other Views applications. This improves communication and decision-making at every level of your organization, while providing real-time feedback on the impact of project resource and cost changes downstream.

Main Supported Environments

Architecture• 64-bit, client/server• Job server for CPU-intensive and large volume data processes Database• Oracle and SQLServerServer• Windows and Oracle SolarisClient• Windows 

For more information contact our office at the address below or visit us at www.aisc.com

401 Congress Avenue, Suite 2650, Austin, TX 78701 USA

REPORTS AND GRAPHICS

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Your reports canalso be customized

with logos, fonts,backgrounds for

a fully customized look and feel.

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Artemis International Headquarters401 Congress Avenue

Suite 2650Austin, Texas 78701

www.aisc.com