By Dale Farris, Reviews Coordinator
Golden Triangle PC Club
January 2007

General Overview

Project Management Made Easy

TurboProject offers the most complete project management planning software available on the market. Easily manage one or multiple projects. Create and easily update project schedules, assign resources, activities and budgets, keep track of costs and items completed, and publish to various formats, including web HTML, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Microsoft Project, for easy sharing.

TurboProject 4 Versions

TurboProject 4 Professional

TurboProject 4 Professional offers the most comprehensive tools on the market. Create calendars, timelines, and Gantt charts in minutes, then assign resources and tasks, and check them off as they get completed. Import/Export to Microsoft Project, and publish to your Website, Intranet, PowerPoint, Word or Excel.

From creating schedules to assigning resources and activities, TurboProject Professional offers the most comprehensive tools on the market. Create calendars, timelines, and Gantt charts in minutes, then assign resources and tasks, and check them off as they get completed. Includes tools such as resource and activity views, automatic over allocation warnings, split and recurring activity scheduling, property templates for presentation quality output, Import/Export to Microsoft Project, web output and more.

Start with what you know, then fill in the details
Organize activities and events independent of one another
Plan freely with unlimited Undo/Redo
Create schedules, timelines, and Gantt charts in minutes
Link activities, events, and subprojects to highlight the critical path
Customize your work calendars
Enjoy presentation quality output
Define views, shapes and formats of all you see
Adjust time scale and font zooming for easy printing
Resource & Activity Usage Views
Display connections when subprojects are collapsed
AutoFit to size columns in tables
Import/Export Microsoft Project 98 .MPD Files
Customize Bar Properties & Templates
Customize Table Properties & Templates
Update Percentage of Project Complete with Mouse
Enjoy enhanced Import/Export capabilities
Copy Project Data and insert into Word/Excel/PowerPoint
Filter to allow subprojects to be hidden
Import/Export Access Files (.MDB Format)
Week Number (Europe) and Fiscal (Ordinal) Time Scales
View assigned resource information, date constraints and memos - all at a glance
Customize Tables, Bars, Profiles, Spreadsheet, Templates, Bar Ranges and Accessories
User define the start of the week
Publish to HTML/ web
Hierarchy Structure, groups resources by Department, Category, Skill
Allocate Effort-Driven Activities
Automatic warning if resources are over-allocated
Select Headers/Footers in Print Preview
Split activities that must occur in dependant segment
Schedule recurring activities automatically
User define the start of the week

Price - $149.99

TurboProject 4 Standard

For anyone who spends time scheduling work, TurboProject 4 Standard cuts scheduling time in half. Create project calendars in minutes, then assign resources and tasks, and check them off as they get completed. Import from Microsoft Project files, and publish to PowerPoint, Word or Excel.

Import from Microsoft Project, Word, Excel and more
Start with what you know, then fill in the details
Organize activities and events independent of one another
Plan freely with unlimited Undo/Redo
Create schedules, timelines, and Gantt charts in minutes
Link activities, events, and subprojects to highlight the critical path
Customize your work calendars
Enjoy presentation quality output
Define views, shapes and formats of all you see
Adjust time scale and font zooming for easy printing
Resource & Activity Usage Views
Display connections when subprojects are collapsed
AutoFit to size columns in tables
Open Microsoft Project 98 .MPD Files
Customize Bar Properties & Templates
Customize Table Properties & Templates
Update Percentage of Project Complete with Mouse
Enjoy Import/Export Enhancements
Copy Project Data and insert into Word/Excel/PowerPoint
Import/Export Access Files (.MDB Format)
Week Number (Europe) and Fiscal (Ordinal) Time Scales
View assigned resource information, date constraints and memos - all at a glance
Customize Tables, Bars, Profiles, Spreadsheet, Templates, Bar Ranges and Accessories
User define the start of the week

Price - $89.95

TurboProject 4 Express

Entry level project management tool ideal for project managers who need an easy solution for creating project schedules and task lists. Offers presentation quality output, custom view settings and ability to publish to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Map elaborate projects and timelines quickly and easily
Create schedules, timelines and Gantt charts in minutes
Start with what you know, then fill in the details
Organize activities and events independent of one another
Plan freely with unlimited Undo/Redo
Link activities, events and subprojects to highlight the critical path
Customize your work calendars
Enjoy presentation quality output
Define views, shapes and formats of all you see
Adjust times scale and font zooming for easy printing
Customize Bar Properties & Templates
Customize Table Properties & Templates
Copy project data into Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Easily communicate goals and objectives
Track work down to specific tasks
Customize tables, bars, profiles, and spreadsheets, globally or object specific
Display a special bar shape, color, or shading for activities assigned to a particular team member

Price - $49.99

Target Customers

TurboProject 4 is a super project management tool that will fit in any organization that needs to develop project management planning tools. TurboProject provides tons of powerful features at a very reasonable price, and is way more affordable than Microsoft's latest Project 2007 Professional, which retails for around $900. TurboProject 4 Professional will likely provide all the project management features you could ever need.

Recommendation

I highly recommend TurboProject 4 Professional for any organization needing help with creating and using professional project management software.

Price

$149.99 - TurboProject 4 Professional
$  89.95 - TurboProject 4 Standard
$  49.99 - TurboProject 4 Express


System Configuration Requirements

P-II 266MHz processor (166MHz minimum)
Windows 95, 98, NT 3.51 or higher, ME, 2000, XP
16MB free hard disk space
64MB RAM (32 MB RAM minimum)
CD-ROM
Mouse
Internet Connection and MAPI-compliant mail systems required for e-mail functionality

About OfficeWork Software, LLC

OfficeWork Software is the developer and subject matter expert behind each of many software solutions. From project time tracking software to workflow software solutions and more, their products deliver technical innovations and quality processes designed to help you and your company succeed. They also offer free trials of their program to enable you to try out their programs before you buy them.

Contact

Joe Kolinger
Chair and Chief Technology Officer
OfficeWork Software, LLC
69 Sandy Creek Way
Novato, California 94947
415-246-7264
joe@officeworksoftware.com
info@officeworksoftware.com
www.officesworksoftware.com