The product is fairly inexpensive and easily implemented. Microsoft has plans to enter the enterprise project management market with Microsoft Project 2000, a move that could prove to be troublesome to its closer competitors. Impressive crosstab view, sort, and multilevel filter functions. Excellent planning, optimization, resource management. Monte Carlo method included in standard version.
Spider enables a browser to access the time-entry functions.
Interface with ERMs achieved via Open Plan Enterprise. Cons PC-based architecture limits the package from a scalability standpoint. No code editor, so the automatic incrementing of codes is limited to prefix management. No true project simulation function. No estimation functions.