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Carlisle, MA โ€" Ballantine & Company, Inc., recognized specialists in project management desktop software and member of the Intuit Developer Network, today released Smart Toolsยฎ Project Manager software, designed to provide architects, engineers, contractors, consultants, managers and other professionals โ€"who also use QuickBooks Pro 2002 or QuickBooks Premier 2002 products โ€"with a tool to easily and quickly plan and budget projects or estimate and schedule client work and proposals.
Smart Toolsยฎ Project Manager is a special edition of Ballantine's popular desktop project software, adding new fields in existing access database, .Smart Toolsยฎ Project Manager is considered the best alternative to complex and expensive project software. It uses a familiar worksheet where all project information, dates and costs are entered. A presentation-quality Gantt chart schedule is automatically plotted from this data with the click of a button, and users can easily customize their Gantt charts and project reports.
With Smart Toolsยฎ Project Manager, users can designate planned or actual activities as critical, link activities for automatic date adjustment, and compare plan time and cost variances. Project data can be sorted and filtered by fields such as activity, date, and project code. Data can be imported from and exported to spreadsheets, databases or for use in other project management software. The reports generated by Smart Toolsยฎ Project Manager also can be exported as HTML documents for the web.
โ€œSmart Toolsยฎ Project Manager is the best choice for small businesses looking for an easy-to-use, economical and feature-rich project management software that also shares data with Intuit's QuickBooks, adding new fields in existing access database, Pro or Premier 2002 products,โ€ said Ann Ballantine, President and CEO of Ballantine & CompanyLink to QuickBooksSmart Toolsยฎ Project Manager offers integration features that enable easy data exchange with Intuit's QuickBooks Pro 2002 and QuickBooks, adding new fields in existing access database, Premier 2002 software.
"The Intuit Developer Network strives to help the best and brightest developers solve the business management challenges that small business owners face every day," said Esther Kruijver, director of the Intuit Developer Network. "We are pleased to be able to work with innovators like Ballantine to offer small businesses specialized applications that, adding new fields in existing access database, will work with the QuickBooks 2002 products. The data integration, adding new fields in existing access database, with Smart Toolsยฎ Project Manager and the QuickBooks 2002 products is an example of how increased efficiencies in managing financial data can give business owners more time to oversee other parts of their business.
"The link between Smart Toolsยฎ Project Manager and QuickBooks Pro 2002 and QuickBooks Premier 2002 products enables users to:ยทSend data between programs rather than maintaining data in more than one place.ยทCreate an estimate in Smart Toolsยฎ Project Manager and then easily transfer it directly to QuickBooks' estimate producer. ยทDirectly access the QuickBooks item list, which includes standard materials, labor and pricing, to speed project planning and eliminate duplicate data entry.
ยทAdd new projects in QuickBooks, or update item list information to QuickBooks. As an added safeguard, when item data from Smart Toolsยฎ Project Manager is shared with QuickBooks, it is tagged so that the user does not accidently change existing accounting information saved in QuickBooks. โ€œSmart Toolsยฎ Project Manager is the second special edition product Ballantine has released since joining the Intuit Developer Network that features data integration with QuickBooks software,โ€ said Ballantine.
โ€œIt is part of effort to provide our small business customers with a convenient link between our software products and the popular QuickBooks 2002 products.โ€ Highlights of Smart Toolsยฎ Project ManagerWorksheet FlexibilitySmart Toolsยฎ Project Manager offers project managers the flexibility to customize the project worksheet that is used to plan and manage projects. ยทIn addition to twelve standard activity, resource, time and cost columns, users can add up to four user-defined text, date, currency or number columns.
ยทThe worksheet, adding new fields in existing access database, columns can be rearranged to reflect the user's project logic.ยทA freeze frame feature splits a large worksheet into two sections that scroll independently. ยทCommonly used activities or cost items and pricing can be added to a drop down selection list that is available to any project. This saves users time and improves the accuracy of the worksheet by eliminating the need to manually re-enter frequently used activities or items and pricing.
ยทSmart Toolsยฎ Project Manager data can be imported from and exported to spreadsheets, Microsoft Access data bases, or text files. Microsoft Project 2000 databases can be opened in Smart Toolsยฎ Project Manager and Smart Toolsยฎ Project Manager projects can be saved as Microsoft Project 2000 databases. ยทTwo worksheets on separate tabs can be used to track different plan versions such as planned to actual or original and revised plans.Full Featured Report Writer ยทAn integrated full-featured word processor that offers project managers extensive formatting capabilities to quickly and easily enhance their project reports.
ยทIn addition to standard time, time, cost and variance reports, any worksheet column can be selected in any order to create custom reports.ยทA master schedule function lets the user select projects to include and creates an updated master schedule with a single button click. Gantt Chart ยทTime bars can be dragged and dropped in the gantt view to change dates.ยทUsers can plot their projects in hours, days, weeks or quarters. ยทPercent complete can be plotted.ยทTwo plan versions can be compared on a single gantt chart.
ยทUp to four data columns, including custom columns can be shown on the Gantt chart. ยทClick on the edit button and the Gantt chart opens the users' default graphics program ready to edit. Users can save their Gantt Charts in the various formats supported by their default graphics program such as gif and jpeg. Workgroup Multi-user OptionA multi-user version of Smart Toolsยฎ Project Manager is available, which allows workgroups to more easily share project files. This makes accurate project information such as worksheets, time, cost and plan comparison reports, as well as Gantt charts available to everyone in a workgroup, and eliminates the problem of duplicate files and version control.
Smart Toolsยฎ Project Manager Pricing and SupportThe intuitive notebook format, context-sensitive help and customer support provided for Smart Toolsยฎ Project Manager get most users up and running in less than 30 minutes. Smart Toolsยฎ Project Manager comes with a library of project worksheet templates that illustrate the many ways the software can Smart Toolsยฎ Project Manager also comes with a 30-day money back satisfaction guarantee. A free trial is available for download from the company's web site www.
tools-for-business.com. Smart Toolsยฎ Project Manager is comes in three different versions to suit to range of project software needs from the most basic to the more advanced.ยทSingle user BASIC- $99.95ยทSingle user STANDARD-$199.00 ยทSingle user PLUS- $249.00ยทMulti-user SERVER $100.00 Volume and educational discounts are available.About BallantineBallantine and Company, Inc. develops and markets project-oriented desktop software used by engineers, architects, contractors, accountants, consultants and business managers.
Ballantine's Tools-for-Business.comรข web site offers visitors professional products and business information designed to help project-oriented professionals work faster and better.To order, call 800-536-6677 or visit www.Tools-for-Business.com.Intuit, the Intuit logo, Quicken, QuickBooks, QuickBooks Pro, QuickBooks Premier, Turbo Tax, ProSeries, and Lacerte, among others, are registered trademarks and/or registered service marks of Intuit Inc. in the, adding new fields in existing access database, United States and other countries.
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