Lateral Thought

Products

 
 

We recommend and support world class software applications from Primavera, Microsoft, Supertec and others in addition to our own products. Our products are selected to ensure that our clients have a range of products available to meet their diverse business requirements whether managing a small project or a portfolio of projects in the most demanding of environments.


Our consultants are properly accredited, tertiary qualified and have experience in a range of products and methods. Product skills include Primavera 6, Primavera Contractor, Microsoft Project, Openproj, Merlin and X-Pert.

Index

  1. 1.Our Products

  2. 2.Primavera - Primavera Product Suite

  3. 3.Microsoft - Microsoft Project

  4. 4.Supertec - EVE (Earned Value Engine)

  5. 5.ProjectWizards - Merlin

  6. 6.Projity - Openproj

Our Products

Primavera - Primavera Product Suite

Primavera P6 is the most powerful, robust, and easy to use solution for globally prioritizing, planning, managing and executing projects, programs and portfolios. P6 is an integrated project portfolio management (PPM) solution comprising role-specific functionality to satisfy each team member’s needs, responsibilities and skills. It provides a single solution for managing projects of any size, adapts to various levels of complexities within a project, and intelligently scales to meet the needs of various roles, functions, or skill levels in your organization.


Microsoft - Microsoft Project

Microsoft Project (or MSP) is a project management program which is designed to assist project managers in developing plans, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workloads.


The application creates critical path schedules, although critical chain and event chain methodology 3rd-party add-ons are available. Schedules can be resource leveled, and chains are visualized in a Gantt Chart. Additionally, Project can recognize different classes of users. These different classes of users can have differing access levels to projects, views, and other data. Custom objects such as calendars, views, tables, filters and fields are stored in an enterprise global which is shared by all users.


Microsoft Project and Project Server are the cornerstones of the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management product.


Supertec - EVE

EVE Earned Value Engine - Project performance reporting and contract management software. EVE is a desktop utility which extends the functionality of Primavera, Microsoft Project planning software to undertake advanced performance reporting and contract management to meet EVM – Earned Value reporting requirements for cost, work and quantity tracking.


ProjectWizards - Merlin

Merlin is a project management system developed exclusively for Mac OS X. This application has been developed to aid project managers create a project plan, track activity progress, allocate resources and manage budgets. It also provides a reporting system and allows users to visualize resource utilization in histograms.


The application allows for different import and export possibilities allowing third party application files, such as MS Project files, to be transferred from and to Merlin. It also integrates several of Apple's applications into its own system. Therefore, Merlin allows syncing to iCal, extracts resources from the Address Book and allows the user to automate certain procedures using Applescript.


Activities can be linked with each other following the classical project management dependencies, which are graphically displayed in a Gantt diagram and Netplan. The application also calculates the critial path and displays it on the Gantt chart and Netplan. Additionally Merlin provides a visual graph of planned versus actual project progress, calculating the expected end of the project.


Merlin 2.5 which is Leopard ready also brings collaborative networking and increased functionality to its successful Macintosh-based project management tool.

Projity - Openproj

OpenProj is an open source desktop alternative to Microsoft Project. The OpenProj solution is ideal for desktop project management and is available on Linux, Unix, Mac or Windows. OpenProj is a complete desktop replacement of Microsoft Project and even opens existing native Project files. OpenProj shares the most advanced scheduling engine in the industry with Project-ON-Demand. The OpenProj solution has Gantt Charts, Network Diagrams (PERT Charts), WBS and RBS charts, Earned Value costing and more.