Open Plan Professional uses optimistic concurrency to ensure the highest productivity possible when multiple users work together. Through graphical manipulation on screen, users can customize most views and reports to meet their project needs. There is a full range of interactive, customizable, graphical project views - tables, bar charts, linked bar charts, flow charts, hierarchy diagrams, cost curves, etc. Flexibility Open Plan Professional employs an OLE 2.0 structure allowing the use of OLE Automation to give an unlimited capacity to extend the functionality of the product as required. In addition, the Welcom philosophy of storing the project management data in a relational database is extended to Open Plan Professional.
Users are able to choose from a range of database options.
With data available to third party systems and report managers, the capacity for adding reports to Open Plan Professional is virtually unlimited. The Welcom philosophy of storing data in a relational database has been extended in Open Plan Professional. This technology provides a corporate solution to data sharing in which data can be stored and processed on any size or type of server and accessed from PC clients. Data can be stored in Open Plan compatible Dbase files or in a variety of ODBC compliant databases such as Oracle and Sybase. In addition to advanced software technology, Open Plan Professional provides remarkable high-end project management functionality.