RationalPlan 3.25: support for Spanish language

RationalPlan 3.24: custom filters, documents on tasks, rich text editors, preview reports

RationalPlan 3.22: data privacy, support for different timezones, more reports, German and French language

"I carefully evaluated over 30 products before deciding on RationalPlan. The products ability to view and manage multiple projects, its straight forward method of setting up tasks, and the ease-of-use in adjusting and making changes to new or existing projects were just a few of the decision points for me. This is a product that can certainly help your business!"

--Michael Hillerbrand, President
First Madison LLC

"I investigated and downloaded demos for various products (always multi-project environments), both open source and paid licensed products, and we chose RationalPlan based on simplicity and ease of use, the fact that it fulfilled our needs as a tool, and benefits/cost relationship... As a project manager, I am very happy with your product and would recommend it to anyone!"

--David Bruegger, Project Manager
Systel SA

RationalPlan - Project Management Software

Multi project planning, Work Breakdown Structure, Gantt chart, allocate resources, estimate costs ...

RationalPlan is a powerful project management software designed to help both project managers and teams to create consistent project plans, allocate resources and analyze workload, track work progress, estimate projects' costs and manage budgets. Whether your applications are in the area of construction, engineering, services&consulting, software development or any other business field, RationalPlan can help you to complete your projects on time and within budget.

Key reasons for using RationalPlan:

easily manage your company's projects and share resources between them (multi project version)
get resources and finances under control (realistic cost estimates mechanisms, detailed cash-flow screening down to tasks and resources level)
brings project's critical issues to your attention (overallocated resources, critical path with configurable slack from which activities become critical)
track project evolution in terms of completion, time and costs
"what if" scenarios capability is offered via multiple undo/redo levels allows you to make changes and safely get back
provides a clean way to break down your project, build schedules, allocate resources and manage budgets
provides a step by step project guide which walks you through the project management process so you can lay down a project plan immediately
a free project viewer is available (which can also be used as Microsoft Project Viewer)

RationalPlan is a great alternative to Microsoft Project with some extra-features like multi project management (only for Multi Project version). It offers you the most important capabilities of a good project management software while being able to operate on various platforms starting with Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and all other Java enabled platforms.

We've build RationalPlan with ergonomy in mind: no fussing dialog windows will prompt unless strictly necessary, timescale zoom is a mouse-wheel roll away without having to reach for the dedicated icons (though the icons are also available) or you can shift to a different time frame by simply dragging the "focus area". A special "zoom focus point marker" was implemented to allow users to zoom without loosing the "interest area" from sight - the marker will fix the time point during the zoom actions.

Apart from the well known Gantt Chart view we also provide a separate Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) view to help you focus on the very important task of breaking down the project rather than distracting your attention to other issues that would only come up at a later stage.