Omni-Vista Announces Project Planning Application for Software Development Teams.COLORADO SPRINGS Colorado Springs, city (1990 pop. 281,140), seat of El Paso co., central Colo., on Monument and Fountain creeks, at the foot of Pikes Peak; inc. 1886. It is a year-round resort and a booming military, technological, and commercial city. , Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 17, 1999-- Omni-Vista SP(TM) (Software Planning) Helps Software Development Teams Optimize the Decision-Making Process When Planning Software Projects by Enabling Interactive, Graphical Trade-off Analysis On a Variety of Factors That Influence the Software Development Process Omni-Vista today announces the release of Omni-Vista SP 1.0 for software project planning project planning - project management . Omni-Vista SP (OVSP OVSP Overspeed ) provides software development teams with the ability to visualize and quantify the impact of changing requirements, release dates, prices, budgets, and schedules of a software project. "OVSP integrates data from development, marketing and finance teams into a single repository," said Dr. Alan Davis, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and founder of Omni-Vista. "This allows software project managers to determine the optimal balance between features, schedules, risks, budgets, pricing, revenues, and profits during the project planning stage - before wasting precious time and resources. And with OVSP's graphical trade-off analysis, organizations can eliminate much of the guesswork from their decisions - and ensure that team members see the impact of their decisions on all aspects of the project." OVSP is a Windows application A program that is written to run under Microsoft's Windows operating system. Such applications typically run under all 32-bit versions of Windows, but earlier applications might also run under the 16-bit versions (Windows 3.x) as well. See Windows. that provides multiple graphical views of a software project. When a parameter within any view is adjusted, all other graphical views are immediately updated to reflect this change. For example, you can add a new requirement to the project and instantly see the impact on budgets, schedules, release dates, revenue, risk, and profit. OVSP's greatest benefit is its ability to provide quantitative, graphical views of the complex relationships between these variables - in real time. Omni-Vista SP is valuable throughout the life cycle of a software project, but is essential whenever you need to: o Justify committing resources to a new project o Select the "best" project among competing proposals (where you define what is meant by "best") o Find the optimal balance between features, schedules and resources when planning a project o Perform break-even or feasibility analysis on a project o Update a project plan when new requirements arise or resources are reduced, and view the effects these changes will have on all aspects of your project. Data import from Microsoft Project (product) Microsoft Project - A Microsoft Windows program offering various project management tools. http://microsoft.com/office/project/. (R), Microsoft Word A full-featured word processing program for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. Included in the Microsoft application suite, it is a sophisticated program with rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities that has become the most widely used word processing application on the market. (R), and ASCII text files See ASCII file. allows users to preserve existing data and be up and running quickly. OVSP's default views can be customized to automatically display the views used most often. And multiple levels of Undo To restore the last editing operation that has taken place. For example, if a segment of text has been deleted or changed, performing an undo will restore the original text. Programs may have several levels of undo, including being able to reconstruct the original data for all edits provide the ability to explore dozens of project scenarios in minutes - without losing any project data. Pricing and Availability Omni-Vista SP is licensed on a per seat basis at $1295 per seat. All licenses purchased before 3/31/99 will include one free year of technical support and maintenance. Omni-Vista SP can be purchased via telephone by calling 719-955-6664. Omni-Vista also offers training courses on Omni-Vista SP. Please visit our web site at www.omni-vista.com to learn more. About Omni-Vista Omni-Vista was founded in March 1998 to create applications for software project planning and requirements analysis (project) requirements analysis - The process of reviewing a business's processes to determine the business needs and functional requirements that a system must meet. . Founder and CEO Dr. Alan Davis is recognized internationally as one of the world's foremost experts on Software Requirements and Software Project Management. He has written several acclaimed books (including 201 Principles of Software Development and Software Requirements: Objects, Functions and States), authored over 100 papers, and has been providing consulting seminars and workshops on software requirements and project planning for over 20 years. |
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