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Project management	Express Planner	Portfolio Planner
Project portfolio Organize projects in hierarchies and portfolios; dependencies can be set between these projects or sub-projects.
Role-constrained Task descriptions can be made in terms of roles, skills, levels or need for specific resources; planning depends on the resources available; no over-allocation is allowed.
Resource-constrained In our planning tools, task descriptions can be made in terms of resources; scheduling depends on the resources available; no over-allocation is allowed.
Templates Templates of project portfolios, projects, sub-projects or task groups can be created and used in a click in our planning tools.
Duration and load Define your tasks in terms of duration or load expressed in man days.
Dependencies Use simple or complex dependencies and express lags in days or in percentage of completeness.
Calendars Calendars can be defined at a group level or at individual level; calendars can be cumulative. Apply calendars from/to a specified date.
Coefficients Coefficients take account of uncertainties that impact task achievement, such as illness or weather conditions, and other restrictions or obstructions like learning curves, holidays, task difficulty, etc. Apply coefficients from/to a specified date or period in the future.
Task details For each task, the Task Details function ranks resources according to their profile match ; you can then choose to impose, include or exclude specific resources to carry out the task.
Group details Check the balance between required and offered roles & skills at a group level. Impose or exclude resources at a group level.
Progress percentage In our planning tools, you can actualize the progress of your tasks, so you can relaunch the automatic scheduling and update your plan.
WBS Gantt In this interactive Gantt chart of our planning tools, you create the structure of your projects and tasks.
Input diagnostics Thanks to these diagnostics, you can answer the following questions : - do I have enough resources to carry out the projects and tasks? - do my resources have the required profiles? - how long will it take to carry out the projects and tasks?
Hours vs Days You can specify the hourly granularity, so you can put very short tasks into your schedule, even if some of them last only a few minutes.
Recurring tasks These tasks are repeated according to some specific rules, such as the frequency and the authorized lag. Three new ways of describing your recurring tasks have been developed: - Plan them for a defined number of repetitions - Plan them until a certain workload has been completed - Plan them for a certain period of time

Resource management	Express Planner	Portfolio Planner
Resource portfolio Organize resources in hierarchies and portfolios which reflect your company organization; set their quantity and contract dates.
Roles and Skills Hierarchies of competences expressed on a main dimension (roles) and a complementary one (skills).
Efficiency levels You can associate grades and efficiency levels to roles and skills, so they have an impact on the choice of the resource and the scheduling of the tasks.
Calendars Calendars can be defined at a group level or at an individual level; calendars can be cumulative. Apply calendars from/to a specified date.
Daily work intensity You can adapt the intensity of daily work of any of your resources to reflect exceptions.
Coefficients Coefficients take account of uncertainties that impact task achievement, such as illness or weather conditions, and other restrictions or obstructions like learning curves, holidays, task difficulty, etc. Apply coefficients from/to a specified date or period in the future.
Capacity curves Capacity Curves show the theoretical and real resource availability before scheduling.
Diagnosis tool Check the coherence of your data relative to your tasks, resources and roles.
Working hours You can specify working and rest periods in the day, so you can deliver the most accurate plan possible to your employees.

Planning & scheduling	Express Planner	Portfolio Planner
Automatic scheduling Task dates are automatically calculated according to resource availability, priorities, critical path and earliest start.
Advanced scheduling preferences Input more preferences in the automatic scheduling process to obtain even more personalized solutions.
Task validation In the Output Gantt of our planning tool, this function 'freezes' the validated tasks so they won't be affected by any subsequent planning.
Project & resource selection before scheduling To increase your testing capabilities, this feature allows you to include all or part of the projects and resources before launching the automatic scheduling.
Set priorities to resources and projects You can specify task group priorities, task priorities, project priorities and resource priorities..
Granularity For mid to long-term planning and scheduling, granularity (precision) can be expressed in days, weeks or months. For short-term planning and scheduling, granularity can be expressed in hours.
Planning horizon Set the planning horizon of your plan by defining starting and ending dates.
Algorithms Creation of some specific rules for the IT and construction sectors (e.g. problems described as of the 'crane' and of the 'PM').

Outputs & analysis	Express Planner	Portfolio Planner
Output Gantt The Output Gantt of our planning tools shows realistic planning and scheduling according to all the constraints, goals and risk scenarios you applied to this specific planning simulation.
Role curves See the simulation results expressed on role allocations; it helps you to analyze peaks and troughs, so you can try to match the pool of resources to the actual needs or to optimize the workload to your existing resources.
Extension ratio This ratio informs you about the probable extension of the theoretical duration of a task's duration; from the theoretical to the realistic.
Allocations Allocations are the result of automatic scheduling from the resource side.
Resource usage Resource Usage shows how this availability has been used in both efficient and inefficient ways and displays the remaining availability.
KPIs Key Performance Indicators present in both numerical and graphical ways the results of simulation on various dimensions: completeness, planned load, end dates, extension ratio, resource usage, role usage, ...
Reports Reports aggregate the most relevant information and produce it in clear lists of project and task schedules, resource allocations, cash-flow forecasts... Daily resource planning.
Output diagnostics Thanks to these diagnostics, you can answer the following questions : - why hasn't task X been planned for date Y? - why hasn't resource X been planned for task Y? - why has resource X has been planned for task Y at Z percent?

Other features	Express Planner	Portfolio Planner
Import MS-Project Import projects, tasks, dependencies, resources, calendars and allocations from one or several MS-Project files into our planning tools.
Export to MS-Project Export the data model and the result of your PlanningForce planning process into a MS-Project file.
Import Excel Work with your Excel data in our planning tools thanks to our Excel import wizard. This will be done by using our featured Excel template.
XML Import Import projects and resources into PlanningForce according to our predefined XML scheme.
Welcome startup while working in PlanningForce, this screen allows you to access fast file openings, tutorials, examples files and a support form at any time.
Video tutorials Watch our 23 video tutorials covering all the topics of PlanningForce to learn at your own speed.
Tutorials in the application Incremental tutorials coupled with example files can be accessed from the Welcome Startup, so you can learn in a few minutes and interactively how to benefit from the most advanced features of PlanningForce.
Guidelines in the application Through simple workflow, follow the steps of the PlanningForce guidelines to create your first plans.
Contextual Help From any part of our project planning softwares, you can access contextual help.
Multi-lingual enabled Multilingual (French, Danish, English, Chinese).
Date format selector American, English or French, short or long formats: just select the one your prefer.

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