Project Plan Ltd. Announces the Release of the Latest Version of Project Planner With New MS Project Interface Features

LA HABRA, CALIFORNIA -- (Marketwire) -- 07/01/10 -- Today, Project Planning Software leader Project Plan Ltd. announced the release of the latest version of their popular Project Planner product. This latest release contains enhanced features making imports and exports of files with MS Project easier than ever.

With users located worldwide in over 30 countries, Project Planner has truly become a global Project Planning solution. And to make it an even more usable and popular product, Project Plan Ltd. has increased its ability to interface with mpp file formats from competitor Microsoft Project.

"We know theres a strong community of MS Project users out there and we need to accommodate that," states Jason Westland, CEO and president of Project Plan Ltd. "Project managers using our product often must work with customers and sometimes even team members who are MS Project users and not yet ready to make the conversion. We hope to win them over eventually, but we also understand the need to accommodate the necessary interaction between these two popular pieces of project plan software."

With Project Planner, you can now easily open MS Project files up to 10 MB in size with thousands of tasks. No add-ons or plug-ins are required, just a simple import or export action. Communicating with MS Project users has never been easier. No need to create PDF files of your documents - just export your Project Planner file in MS Project format for them and send via email. Your customers will be able to view your output in seconds.

Project Planner may successfully interface with MS Project , but its not MS Project. At 1/10th the cost of a MS Project license, you can have Project Planner in its feature rich format that - because of its ease of use and diverse design - can accommodate any industry. Great for construction, engineering, software and IT, etc. - no matter what the use or need, you can be up in running in a fraction of the time that MS Project requires.

"Ease of use and detailed functionality is a balance that everyone hopes to achieve with a software release," says Westland. "We feel like weve gotten it right with Project Planner. And our user community is telling us that as well."

Feedback from the Project Planner user community indicates that this is one of the easiest to use project planning software packages available. Project managers all over the world are stating that theyve been able to produce professional project plans in minutes with this software when other packages have huge learning curves.

With Project Planner, the project manager can also create detailed Gantt Charts clearly showing task detail and interdependencies in the schedule format that customers and CEOs love to see. Customizable Gantt Chart views are easily created through the software to provide even more meaning and detail for users.

Project Planner is a project managers dream for quickly and easily documenting detailed project schedules and interrelated tasks. With Project Planner, the project manager is in complete control of the project from beginning to end.

Project Planner is available for download as a 14-day free trial. You can also purchase and download the product from Project Plan Ltds website. For more information, please visit their website at ProjectPlan.com.