ArchiOffice vs RationalPlan

• Time tracking because you can account for almost every single minute of your day with detailed descriptions attached. The reporting of time came in very good use when clients questioned billing.
• Robust billing portal that was pretty customizable.
• Could track employee costs well once the correct numbers were placed into the system. Came in very handy for billing and company budgeting and projections.

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• Portfolio view is great to get a feel for how your programme is running at a glance and which areas possibly might require attention. The fact that you can customise your view by adding your own columns is another plus.
• All project information in one tool is a big plus for me considering the amount of projects we run with. This really improves efficiency and saves me time. You have the ability to add documents to tasks, manage risks, email resources tasks due for projects they are assigned to(might need some refinement depending on your requirements), material db with costing etc.

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• The overall layout and physical design of the portals could be simplified greatly. The program is anything but intuitive to use.
• I found myself clicking what felt like a 1,000 times just to complete one small task. Billing was very cumbersome and the program did not integrate smoothly with Quickbooks as was previously promised.
• Saving and making templates for billing etc. was a tedious process that also cost extra!
• The program is as good as what you put into it, but they designed the software for a more particular one-sided way to work and manage, so it made customizing a project to your companies methods tricky.
• Overall a very cumbersome program that looks as if it was designed at the start of the millennium and note 16 years into it.

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• While the portfolio view is great is becomes difficult/cluttered with many projects. Highlighting master projects will help. Creating a tree view for master project and its sub projects would even be better.
• Reporting is a big part of any project. While rationalplan has reports for key areas the presentation of these reports could really be improved. Make it more presentable. Add some burndown charts. I hate to compare you to MS Project but they do reporting really well in MS Project.
• The email function is another great idea. Would be great if one had an option to either email an entire portfolio or by active project. At times I’m still scoping certain projects and if the WBS is not yet complete then this incomplete project is also communicated via email which leads to frustration in the team. You don’t always want to communicate tasks for all projects to all resources.
• One need to be able to: Email per project
• Email entire portfolio (as currently the case)
• Email by resource (send pending or outstanding tasks to the resource in question)
• Add a portfolio dashboard with graphical speed and bar charts giving you a glimpse of late projects, projects slipping, not started in progress etc., for your portfolio.

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• It positively organized our time tracking and the reporting was robust enough to use for client meetings.
• It negatively took up more time to do certain tasks that shouldn't be so time consuming.

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• Helps explain the target schedule and resource estimates for cost of the project

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