John Fozard, Managing Director says "Project Commander is the product of the future and will replace Microsoft Project as the product of choice in many private and public sector organisations.
Microsoft has only released 3 versions since 2000 and if you look under the bonnet, you will see that there have been very few product developments. Many customers perceive that all that has really changed is the label.
By contrast, Project Commander has continued and will continue to develope at a rapid rate with 14 major releases since 2000- with an emphasis on making the software most cost effective and even easier to use. "
Click here to download 100 reasons why to change or purchase Project Commander instead of Microsoft Project.
There is a comprehensive audio visual PowerPoint presentation that lasts about 1 hour that you can download - explaining clearly all the differences and extra facilities in Project Commander
For previous users of Microsoft Project, Project Commander overcomes many of the problem issues which Microsoft Project has suffered from for over 15 years - since it's first release ...
- The user easily fits the chart to any size paper and the number of pages you want, filling the full page.
- All bars and link types can be drawn with the mouse and draw multiple bars per line.
- Position multiple bars and multiple type symbols on the same row.
- It is WYSIWYG which means you layout each page as it prints including the title, logos, pictures and legends.
- Include section headings.
- You can easily colour bars and create your own legend at the bottom.
- Filter the bar chart using the bar colours.
- Show project non working day shadings on all timescales.
- Automatic Shift Project option to move the whole project or highlighted tasks.
- There is a low cost effective server version.
- There is a free Project Viewer downloadable for internal persons that only need to view/print Project Commander files or can be downloaded by your clients.
- You can create combined reports with barcharts and cost/resource graphs/tables.
- Create a Professional Border with boxes to highlight a corporate image for presentation.
- Save the output as a picture to use in PowerPoint or Word or as a PDF (A PDF Creator is included free of charge in the installer).
CAN I ACTUALLY SAVE LOADS OF MONEY?
Just recently, a dealer rang to quote for Microsoft Project on a network version with 2 Professional version users and 20 users that need read only access plus 15 stand-alone Standard versions .
QUOTE : £10,000 plus
Project Commander has a free Project Viewer and 17 licences are £1,500 (for use on network or standalone).
QUOTE : £1,500
SAVING £8,500 (85% LESS)
That is not a one off situation. Project Commander savings get bigger and bigger as the number of licences required increases.
Kirklees reap the benefits of a change from Microsoft
In 2007, the Council are now really reaping the benefits. Mike Pownall, IT Project Manager at Kirklees says “Prior to purchasing a Project Commander site licence, Kirklees Council were spending £26k per annum on Project software licences with a cost per seat of about £200. With Project Commander, our cost per seat has fallen to less than £1 per annum. We now just pay £1500 annual maintenance to cover the upgrades and support.”
Helen Bennett also at Kirklees says “Project Commander has enabled more staff to have access to project software within the council for a small cost. This has enabled more staff to become competent at using the software to assist in project management. It does not have the same steep learning curve of Microsoft Project and therefore can be used easily and appropriately by staff. The functionality is similar to Microsoft Project and there can be transfer from one to another if required.”
