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Project Management Technology - MS Project Integration

Atlantic's Project Management Technology opens up the project management functionality of MS Project Planning to the organisation, creating a useful tool for project planning by assessing resource availability and skill suitability across an entire project portfolio and organisational resource pool.

A two-way link ensures project plans are updated with the latest actual information logged in Atlantic Timesheet and Expenses. Data to track a project's progress, down to an estimation of completion, is available via the Internet. Project managers can consistently monitor project progress, cost and issues.

MS Project Planning Link

This data bridge allows you to create a schedule or consolidated project plan in Microsoft Project, then import assigned tasks into Atlantic's Project Management Technology. You can then track your actual work in Atlantic Project Planning and send the data back to Microsoft Project to update the schedule with actual work and a current estimate to completion of each task.

Integrate Project Management Technology with Microsoft Project Planning Link

There are several advantages to interfacing Atlantic'c time sheet data with Microsoft Project including:

• Accurate tracking of Estimate to Completion
• Accurate costing of project effort
• Elimination of manual methods of actual work tracking
• Elimination of duplicate time sheets for regular hours tracking and project tracking
• Quicker decisions on what to do with resources

Key Benefits

• Standardise project management technology process across the entire organisation
• Maximise resource utilisation across a global resource pool
• Enhance the project management technology process using real-time resource utilisation & availability information
• Up-to-the-minute project progress tracking

MS Office Integration

• MS Excel
  a standard procedure is employed on all reports which enables information to be exported directly into MS Excel via a csv file
• MS Word
  when a report is displayed visually on screen, users can save the report in a rtf format. This format will open in word and retain the reports format
• MS Project
  Atlantic' s bi-directional project link allows for quick and easy exporting and importing of MS Project plans, Primavera & Peoplesoft