Post on 27-May-2020
10 Golden Reasons why your Company should use Seavus Project Viewer
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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