10 Golden Reasons why your Company should use Seavus Project … · 2015-07-09 · The 10 Golden reasons why your Company should use Seavus Project Viewer are: Reason No1 Master Project

10 Golden Reasons why your Company should use Seavus Project Viewer

1

CONTENTS

Introduction ........................................................................................................................................ 2

Reason No1 ......................................................................................................................................... 2

Reason No2 ......................................................................................................................................... 3

Reason No3 ......................................................................................................................................... 5

Reason No4 ......................................................................................................................................... 7

Reason No5 ......................................................................................................................................... 8

Reason No6 ...................................................................................................................................... 10

Reason No7 ...................................................................................................................................... 11

Reason No8 ...................................................................................................................................... 12

Reason No9 ...................................................................................................................................... 13

Reason No10.................................................................................................................................... 14

2

Introduction

Seavus Project Viewer is a complete viewer for Microsoft® Project files that

facilitates excellent cooperation in projects where the project stakeholders need

to view and share information from project management. Seavus Project Viewer

is a fast and lightweight standalone application that reads the native .mpp file

format and does not require any previous installation of Microsoft® Project on

the user’s computer.

The 10 Golden reasons why your Company should use Seavus Project Viewer are:

Reason No1

Master Project & Resource Pool

When opening a master project file in Seavus Project Viewer, all of its inserted

subprojects are loaded as well. Inserted projects are indicated in the Indicators

icon with the icon. Pointing at the icon with your mouse, a tooltip with the

location of the subproject file appears. Tasks from different subprojects can be

linked together, forming a predecessor/successor dependency. When you open

one of the subprojects in Seavus Project Viewer, all of the predecessor tasks from

other subprojects will be shown next to the local tasks in the project being

opened. They appear with different bar/box style and font in the different task

views, e.g. in grey colour, so they can be visually distinguished from the local

tasks. By having the external tasks shown in the views, Seavus Project Viewer is

able to draw the links between them and the local task, providing a more realistic

view over the whole set of tasks and their dependencies.

Master Project

Inserted Project

Project 1 Project 2

Resource Pool

Resources

3

Reason No2

Large Project Plans

Seavus Project Viewer can open large project plans (plans that last for several

years, with great numbers of tasks and resources) in very short period of time.

Therefore Seavus Project Viewer is very suitable for larger companies which

are running this kind of project plans.

0

0.2

0.4

0.6

0.8

1

1.2

1.4

1.6

0,5 MB 1 MB 3 MB 5 MB

Tim

e (

seco

nd

s)

File Size

Speed of File Opening (Microsoft Project 2013)

Seavus Project Viewer

Housatonic Project Viewer

Steelray Project Viewer

Live Project

K-SOL Project Reader

Afinion Project Viewer

Rational Plan View

0

5

10

15

20

10 MB 15 MB 20 MB 35 MB 45 MB

Tim

e (

seco

nd

s)

File Size





Live Project


Rational Plan View


4

0

10

20

30

40

50

0,5 MB 1 MB 3 MB 5 MB

Tim

e (

seco

nd

s)

File Size





Live Project



Rational Plan View

0

200

400

600

800

1000

10 MB 15 MB 20 MB 35 MB 45 MB

Tim

e (

seco

nd

s)

File Size





Live Project


Rational Plan View


5

Reason No3

Supported Views, Filters and Groups

Supported Views

Views are fully supported in Seavus Project Viewer. They display in a particular

format a subset of the information the project manager typically enters in

Microsoft® Project.

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

0,5 MB 1 MB 3 MB 5 MB

Tim

e (

seco

nd

s)

File Size




K-SOL Project Reaser



HD Projette

Live Project

Rational Plan View

0

100

200

300

400

500

10 MB 15 MB 20 MB 35 MB 45 MB

Tim

e (

seco

nd

s)

File Size




K-SOL Project Reaser



HD Projette

Live Project

Rational Plan View

6

Before project managers distribute information about their project in .mpp files

after having selected a view, they may want to format the view to better meet

their needs or apply an organizational standard for presenting projects.

To make the project easier to read, project managers usually highlight

milestones, change the colours of task bars to match corporate standards, or

change field titles to match organization's terminology. When the project

manager saves the project in an .mpp file, the formatting information is stored

along the project information in the same file. Seavus Project Viewer reads this

information when opening .mpp files, showing the same formatting and

visual styles as in Microsoft® Project.

Supported Filters

Seavus Project Viewer supports all standard task filters, available by default in

Microsoft® Project, for viewing specific aspects of tasks and resource filters

for viewing specific aspects of resources. In addition, project managers can

create a new filter or modify an existing filter by customizing a filter's criteria in

Microsoft® Project. These new filters and customizations of the existing ones can

be used in Seavus Project Viewer as well. In addition to standard filters, Seavus

Project Viewer features AutoFilter option, letting the user to specify filter criteria

for each field in the table separately.

SeavusProjectViewer

HousatonicProjectViewer

AfinionProjectViewer

K-SOLProjectReader

SteelrayProjectViewer

Live ProjectRational Plan

View

Supported Views 33 26 12 5 8 6 5

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

Supported Views

7

Supported Groups

In Seavus Project Viewer, you can use the standard groups, available by default in

Microsoft® Project, to categorize and view rolled up task, resource, or

assignment information in a variety of ways. In addition, project managers

can also create custom groups that are stored in the .mpp file when saving the

project. You are able to use those groups in Seavus Project Viewer as well.

Reason No4

Task Update

Seavus Project Viewer is the only viewer for Microsoft® Project that provides a

collaborative environment for project teams without server installation.

SeavusProjectViewer

Housatonic ProjectViewer


K-SOLProjectReader


LiveProject

RationalPlan View

Supported Filters 36 31 12 0 21 5 12

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

Supported Task Filters

SeavusProjectViewer

HousatonicProjectViewer


K-SOLProjectReader


LiveProject

RationalPlan View

Supported Groups 12 12 0 0 0 8 0

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

Supported Task Groups

8

The process of sharing is very simple:

The project manager creates a project plan in Microsoft® Project and

uploads it on a shared location

Team members open the project plan with Seavus Project Viewer and

report task progress (% completed or Actual Work).

The project manager then opens the project plan and accepts or rejects

submitted task updates.

With this very simple task update process, teams can easily introduce a

collaborative project environment where they can:

Get real-time project status

Continually evaluate team's performance

Build knowledge for future projects

Reason No5

Compare Projects

In Project Management 2.0 environment, where companies initializes, creates

and tracks their project plans, Compare Project feature can be very useful for

visualizing project’s changes and gives possibilities to all project’s participants to

give their thoughts regarding the scheduling process and project’s deliverables.

Create Project

Update Assignment

Accept/Reject

9

Decentralization of the project’s control, bottom-up scheduling and the

collaborative environment are just few areas where the Compare Project

functionality can stress out the need of revision of the resource’s allocation, task’s

scheduling or project’s milestones.

Team members, Team Leads, External Stakeholders can use Compare Projects

feature in one of the following situations:

Analyzing “What-If” scenarios when there is more than one project’s

version. Giving quality feedback to the project manager regarding project’s

scheduling and resource allocation can lead to successfully project’s ending

and achieving delegated milestones.

Track project changes in order to create local project’s history for viewing

and analyzing how project plan has evolved and differentiate from the

original one.

Track and revision of resource’s assignments through project’s lifecycle.

Team leaders can compare resources assignments and made appropriate

assignment reports at the end of the project.

Compare

Version 1

Version 2

10

Reason No6

Multilanguage support

Developed to work on the most spoken languages in the world, Seavus Project

Viewer allows its users to work on international projects without any difficulties.

No matter where you are and which multi-national company you work for,

Seavus Project Viewer will present to you the project information on your native

language.

The latest version of Seavus Project Viewer is available in the following languages:

English (as default language), German, French, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Dutch,

Polish, Russian, Japanese and Chinese (Simplified).

SeavusProjectViewer

Housatonic

ProjectViewer


K-SOLProjectReader


LiveProject

Rational PlanView

Compare Projects features 8 0 0 0 0 0 0

0123456789

Compare Projects features

SeavusProjectViewer

Housatonic Project

Viewer


K-SOLProjectReader


LiveProject

RationalPlan View

Supported Languages 11 12 8 6 1 1 1

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

Supported Languages

11

Reason No7

Microsoft Project Server 2013/2010/2007/2003

Enterprise Project Management (EPM) is a solution, an approach or structured

process that is used in managing the entire investment of the project as well as

the project life cycle – from strategic portfolio decisions to work management.

A Project Manager uses Microsoft® Project Professional to create tasks according

to the project scope and assigns resources for the company resource pool.

Instead of e-mailing the project plan to all participants or placing it on shared

location, a project manager publishes it on Microsoft® Project Server.

12

Using simple interface, Seavus Project Viewer users can connect to the

Microsoft® Project Server using its credentials and open the necessary project

plan. With this powerful feature, Seavus Project Viewer can be used as viewer not

only for files stored locally, on user’s PC, but also for project plans created in the

EPM environment.

Reason No8

Microsoft Share Point Integration

Microsoft SharePoint is the most used application for storing, organizing, sharing

and accessing data, with main accent on content and document management.

Beside uploading and editing files created in different applications from the

Office suite, project managers can create their own project management

environment and upload the project plans on Microsoft SharePoint site specially

created for that purpose and share it with the team and project’s stakeholders.

Connect to the EPM Environment

Using the SharePoint functionality in Seavus Project Viewer and its Windows

credentials, the team member connects to the specified site where the project

plan is located and download it.

Import Project Plan

All project plans uploaded on the Microsoft SharePoint environment will be

presented in Seavus Project Viewer with all information entered by the project

manager.

Import Master Project Plans

By consolidating related projects into a master project, project managers can

organize and manage complex projects or multiple related projects more

effectively.

13

When opening a master project file from Microsoft SharePoint Server in Seavus

Project Viewer™, all of its inserted subprojects are loaded as well, providing a

more realistic view over the whole set of tasks and their dependencies to the

user.

Reason No9

Import Projects from Google Drive/SkyDrive

GoogleDrive/SkyDrive is a file hosting service allowing users to upload,

synchronize and share their files to cloud storage and access them via Web

browser or from their PC. Project plans can be uploaded and synchronized on

Google Drive/SkyDrive directly from Microsoft Project, without leaving the

application.

Connect to the storage system

Two step process for connecting to Google Drive/SkyDrive makes this feature

very user friendly for using for all users, no matter whether they are novice or

experts.

Import Project Plans

Project plans are created, edited and uploaded on GoogleDrive/SkyDrive by the

project manager and team members using Seavus Project Viewer connect to the

GoogleDrive/SkyDrive and download the project information. Once the project

plan is loaded in Seavus Project plan, team member can use all implemented

features for better viewing/printing project’s assignments.

14

Import Master Project Plans

When opening a master project file from Microsoft SharePoint Server in Seavus

Project Viewer™, all of its inserted subprojects are loaded as well, providing a

more realistic view over the whole set of tasks and their dependencies to the

user.

Offline Mode of Work

Seavus Project Viewer supports the offline mode of work, enabling the users to

view and print project files while they are disconnected from the storage system,

i.e. to work with local copies from the original files stored on cloud.

Reason No10

Fortune 1000 Companies

Existing successfully on the market for almost a decade, Seavus Project Viewer

has gained millions of satisfied team leaders, team members and project

stakeholders (vendors, distributors, suppliers, sub-contractors). The implemented

set of features has allowed these project participants to successfully achieve the

project’s milestones and deliver the project’s good on time.

Seavus Project Viewer portfolio includes companies such as: Airbus, Embraer,

NATO, BMW, Scania, Rolls-Royce, Volvo, Chevron, Rio Tinto, Alstom, Cisco

Systems, General Dynamics, Sony Corporation, Xerox, Texas Instruments,

Deutsche Telecom AG, Tele 2, Siemens, Orange Communications, DHL Schweiz,

Bayer, Henkel Corporation, Samsung Electronics, IBM Corporation, Marks &

Spencer, Tetra Pak, etc.

Seavus DOOEL 11 Oktomvri 33A

1000 Skopje, Macedonia Phone: + 389 2 3097 400 Fax: + 389 2 3097 414

Email: [email protected] URL: www.seavusprojectviewer.com

All documents prepared or furnished by Seavus DOOEL and the copyright therein shall remain the property of

Seavus DOOEL.

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.seavusprojectviewer.com/

Documents

10 Golden Reasons why your Company should use Seavus Project … · 2015-07-09 · The 10 Golden reasons why your Company should use Seavus Project Viewer are: Reason No1 Master Project