Deltek Releases Open Plan Version 8.5

We are very excited for the new features in the latest release of Deltek Open Plan 8.5, an enterprise-class, mature Critical Path Method (CPM) project scheduling engine.

Open Plan has the flexibility to manage projects of all sizes, including multi-project analysis, critical path planning, resource management and risk analysis. 

Open Plan has the flexibility to manage projects of all sizes, including multi-project analysis, critical path planning, resource management and risk analysis. 

Deltek has invested significant resources over the last few years in Open Plan and that investment is still going strong.  Here are a few of the new features and enhancements in version 8.5:

Time-phased reporting by activity count and value

• Time-phased schedule progress charts allow you to report by activity count or values. For example, you can view charts to show view early/late activity completion curves with actuals as well as time-phased task completions against the baseline plan.
• Include time-phased sample views include TP Completions and TP Cash Flow.
• TP Completions displays cumulative or period data for a project plotted against time, showing you the number of activities planned to finish versus activities that were scheduled to finish. This reporting also supports the concept of Earned Schedule reporting.
• TP Cash Flow allows you to use user-defined values to look at planned spending versus actual spending.

• This view shows a hierarchical arrangement of projects with spreadsheet and barchart components.

Active Redundancy Analysis

• Redundant tasks or as I call them, non-essential tasks, create extraneous data in your schedule. Open Plan 8.5 automatically checks the entire schedule, flagging redundant relationships.  This is a great enhancement that Deltek Acumen Fuse users will be familiar with.

Other enhancements include allowing you to move activities from one external sub-project to another or from an external project to a master, project spreadsheet view, Go To hidden activities, and many more. Check out the release notes for these new features.

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