Features
1. Visibility & Organization; a Foundation for Managing it
All with a Robust Set of Tools
Starting with an outline framework, ManagePro provides multiple tools to organize all the tasks and activities to be managed within the business environment; bringing the entire process under control, from Strategic goals all the way down to daily tasks by department and person. Manage it All with improved visibility and tracking over project plans, status updates, tasks, todos and attached documents. Each is available within a couple of clicks.
2. Configurable Project Views
Create custom views that match up to your needs. View projects organized by tasks (and subtasks), who's responsible and when it's due, or any of our 30 additional criteria, Make it easy to focus on just the information you need, all in one screen. Different departments will be relieved to know they can view the data and specific columns in a way that makes the most sense to them. Regardless of the view, changes by users are immediately available across all custom views.
3. Gantt Chart
The Gantt chart graphically displays the duration and dependency relationships of goals and projects by user, business group or for the entire organization. The Gantt chart view also displays the % Complete, the users assigned and the % of their time allocated to that task alongside the duration of each record. You'll also find a convenient flag to indicate what tasks have slipped beyond their original due date. Along side the duration bars, Progress Updates are displayed as a pink triangle icon on each date at which a Progress Update was posted, to give immediate visibility on frequency of updates.
4. Resource Allocation
Resource Allocation at the portfolio level provides an immediate over-view of how adequately projects are resourced, with a list of projects, who’s assigned, what hours are required to complete and what % the project is currently resourced. ManagePro also provides a view customized for assigning resources to an individual task. Designed to directly check an individual’s allocation across projects, who’s available and what projects they are assigned to now and in the future. Verify any individual's load using the duration bar graphic, and/or click on their graphic at any segment to get a listing of projects they are assigned to, as well as their level of allocation at that time.
5. Document Management
Tasks are easily tracked in a simple list or calendar display, or can be attached to an Outline represented departments, projects or simply a topical structure that best represents your work process. ManagePro and MProLite provide both structures to best suit your needs at the moment. Sometimes it works best to see tasks by project, sometimes its more convenient to see them in a list sorted by date, priority or the person assigned.
6. Time Tracking
&
Time Cards
Track time by project and by individual to help you stay on time and on budget. Use your time card entries to track time used as compared with original estimates or budget, as well as a basis for earned value. Each record has a convenient time card tab, displaying the hours allocated for that task at the upper right, and the hours to date, hours accumulated this month and this week respectively to the right.
7. Manage Tasks using a Simple List system, and/or a topical
based Outline
Tasks are easily tracked in a simple list or calendar display, or can be attached to an Outline represented departments, projects or simply a topical structure that best represents your work process. ManagePro and MProLite provide both structures to best suit your needs at the moment. Sometimes it works best to see tasks by project, sometimes its more convenient to see them in a list sorted by date, priority or the person assigned.
8. Status Reports are Available in Seconds
Waiting for status reports with latest updates and outstanding action items is a thing of the past. Highlight any set of projects or tasks you want to include in the report, and in 3 clicks you have an instant report available in pdf, xls, rtf or htm.
9. Easy Access to your Direct Reports' Projects
with Immediate Drill Down and Sorting
Clicking the column heading provides sorting by that field type across the entire range of work, but more importantly, you can access the projects assigned to each person or business group by using the drop down menu in the ribbon control. You have instant access to the projects they are working on, their task/todo list, latest progress updates as well as how they have prioritized and organized today.
10. Reduce Your Follow-up Phone Calls
with Instant Access to Progress Updates
What if you didn't have to pick up the phone, call out from your office or walk down the hallway to get a status update? What if getting status updates didn't require attending another meeting and sitting through a PowerPoint presentation and discussion, point by point. ManagePro provides immediate visibility on the status of each project, including tracking the date updates were last entered, to help you easily stay on top and in the loop.
11. Outlook Optimized - Reduce the Time Required to Manage
your Email and Schedule
ManagePro goes beyond synchronizing with Outlook's todo list and calendar, to provide a time-saving "drag and drop" function. Now you can breeze through your inbox and automatically drag email (with documents attached) directly onto your projects as documented correspondence when appropriate, or onto your calendar or todo list. Alternatively you can use our Outlook Add-in, and attach emails to ManagePro records all while within Outlook.
12. Manage Your Customers and Vendors
for Improved Service and Throughput
Use ManagePro to give your Vendors and your top customers a personalized, highly coordinated service, maintaining a high touch level of service and ensuing satisfaction level. ManagePro supports you by combining details, contact information, key documents, outstanding action items and upcoming meetings all from each client record. Something that you could never do if you're still trying to manage those relationships through email, todo lists and spreadsheets.
13. Align your Projects and Priorities with
your Strategic Plan
ManagePro helps you link projects to the strategic plan goals and initiatives in two clicks, providing clear visibility about alignment, impact and relative value-add. It displays the results in either the Main Workspace outline format by individual goal in your strategic plan, or an overall view in the Map or Scorecard views.
14. Manage your Outcomes, Results and
the supporting Reports in just minutes each day
Nothing works like measuring your results to improve performance and profitability. ManagePro provides a scorecard for every competitive activity in both traffic signal and timeline view, as well as a quick report generator for easy reporting needs.
ManagePro's solution allows you to chose how many features you need for each user, from a complete desktop version to the browser-based MProLite ( Click To View Overview of MProLite) to the ManagePro Outlook Add-in, while tying them all together to deliver a complete solution, providing:
- Integration with Outlook (Drag & Drop email into ManagePro)
- MBO based Strategic Planning
- Business Objectives and Individual Performance Scorecards
- Portfolio Dashboards & Analytics
- Project and Performance software management
- Time Card Input for Workforce Management and Resource Allocation
- Business Intelligence and Asset Management
