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What is resource management? Apr 24

Let's make it really short: resource management is the process of using a organizations resources in the most efficient way possible.
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Project scheduling Apr 03

  This is a guest post from Brad Egeland - IT/PM & Business Strategy Consultant & professional PM & Technology author ( www.bradegeland.com )

Simple project scheduling is helping to succeed with PM and your everyday business processes.

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Fight recession with better planning and scheduling Jan 12

Are you ready to make 2012 your best year yet?...

Working smarter (and more profitably) requires better planning and scheduling of the most valuable elements of your business: Resources Read more »

Version 3.1.10 is out Jan 01

 version 3110 Just in the last days of 2011 we released a new version of Ganttic. Besides a number of bug fixes some new features were added.  Read more »

Timetable or schedule software ? Dec 27

Have you been trying to replace this old paper wallchart or whiteboard in your organization? It is a hard decision as everybody's used to the old system and its shortcomings. Scheduling on paper or whiteboard is easy, but life always makes its corrections and any plan or timetable needs rescheduling. Read more »

Resource planning Dec 16

resource planning  Why should you care and learn about it? Everyone understands importance of planning. For planning your personal stuff there are wide variety of tools available: Outlook calendar, paper calendars, bunch of web based calendar apps. All work well for personal planning.
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Managing Multiple Projects with Success Nov 22

This is a guest post from Brad Egeland - IT/PM & Business Strategy Consultant & professional PM & Technology author. Read more about him at www.bradegeland.com Read more »

Long waited utilization feature is now live! Aug 22


Our main goal in Ganttics development has been the simplicity of application. New features we implement should not clutter the graphical interface. That is why most of our users do not even know that last Tuesday we quietly launched a one of the most asked feature - worktime and resource utilization calculations.
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New pricing Jun 15

New pricing  When we created our pricing system we thought that we'll offer to our customers a perfect scheme where they can by software by parts they need. Recently we did a customer survey to find out how our users are feeling about it. And we found out that lots of them found it to be confusing. So we got it wrong and had to make some changes. Here's what we came up with. Read more »

Replace your old project management software Jun 09

Most of project management software packages are made to ease our lives. Sometimes they don't. Why? Because you are using them for a wrong job.
Ganttic can be a handy alternative. Read more to find out why.
If you are interested in our software, you might also be interested in pursuing a project management degree at an online university.
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Benefits of self-hosted web application May 26

 Benefits of web based applications are known for most software buyers: nothing to install and maintain, automatic upgrades, instant access from any computer etc.
Installing a webapp onto your corporate servers adds more.
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Ganttic is .... hmmm ... a resource calendar Apr 29

resource calendar Ganttic is good for scheduling many kinds of resources like people, facilities, vehicles, jobs, equipment and projects. We're struggling here to find a good definition what Ganttic really is. One is sure - Ganttic is hell of a good RESOURCE CALENDAR.
Why sould anyone need a resource calendar?
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Monday.pt about visual planning and scheduling Apr 28

Monday.pt managing partner mr. Diogo Romão : We have been using Ganttic at Monday for project and resource planning and we are very pleased with it! Nice interface and simple functionality gives us the ability to quickly have an overview of what’s coming, predict constraints and manage production pipeline.  By using it, we have been able to make our weekly planning meetings much more effective. We can now focus mainly on double-checking projects and resources, since all the planning is made in advance and continuously. Read more »

US-EU time formats and better snap Apr 18

  One of the most requested feature has been possibility to choose between US and european time formats. Well, now you can. You'll find it under Settings menu. Version 3.11 brings you also improved snap.
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New major release is live! Apr 05

ganttic upgraded 12 of January we launched the revamped Gantt chart area, gave the new look to taskbars and introduced new filtering and navigation options. Just week later, on 19th of January we completed second step of our user interface “total makeover”. This one changed the left sidebar and replaced several ADD buttons with just one. The main goal of those two releases were to unclutter the interface and ease the navigation. We have got  just good feedback from our users about these changes. Now we are coming out with the last release in UI series.
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What kind of problems Ganttic helps to solve for you? Mar 25

 No business uses software just because it is cool. We all want to solve something what's bothering us. The idea of Ganttic is to solve certain problems in business management. Here's complete list. Read more »

Gantt chart as a project plan. Is it enough? Mar 01

Scheduling software based on gantt charts  This blog post is a short version of Brad Egelands article at PMTips.net. You can read the original from here http://pmtips.net/components-project-plan/ 
It is a good read about must-have parts of project management and gives a good overview of the process.
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Planning-LITE concept got attention from Forbes.com Feb 23

Forbes writes about our scheduling software   Tom Taulli, a writer for Forbes.com took an interview from Ganttics CEO Indrek and wrote a positive post on blogs.forbes.com . Startup, like Ganttic can definitely use publicity like this. Thank you, Tom! Read more »

What is the Planning-LITE concept? Feb 14

Keep the project management and planning tools that you are actually going to use and nothing more. Schedule only personnel, facilities or equipment, which bear most of your business expenses.

Ganttic introduces the concept of Planning-LITE; project management and scheduling software that utilizes the main functionality that users want, keeping it simple, easy to use, and affordable.
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Password recovery and more Feb 08

We really hope, that you have found our new user interface easier to read and this has made your planning experience more effortless.
If you haven't tried it out yet, please log in from top-right corner of the screen. Lost password? Recover it. Remove your account if feel so.

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100 years old Gantt charts had a "total makeover" Jan 31

 ms project and ms excel The market for planning tools is huge. Most businesses plan operations and/or projects and schedule their resources in house, yet the choice of tools for this task is fairly limited. Ganttic has created a scheduling software to ensure that the necessary tools are in place for businesses that want the planning to be easily done, but not overly simplistic.
To draw a parallel with cutting the forest - while most still do it with an axe and few can afford modern forest harvesting robots, Ganttic has just invented the chainsaw. 
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Ganttic has a brand new look and feel Jan 19

scheduling software screenshot We've always received or very good or very bad feedback about our planning app. Good from people who got the point how it works and bad from people who didn't.
Only conclusion we could make out of it was that intuitivity has to improve by improving our user interface. Well, we have completed the first stage for now. Results are for you to judge.
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We got a grant Jan 19

eas software grant  Enterprise Estonia granted us a support to conclude a market research and financial projections for visual, web based planning system. Works will be carried out in cooperation with University of Tartu Read more »

User interface improved Jan 13

scheduling software interfaceYesterday we completed first stage of total makeover of our user interface. We've been gathering feedback from our users and most of them are happy with functionality of Ganttic but saying that Ganttic is hard to learn. Mostly because of cluttered interface. Just too many buttons and choices to make. So we worked out a plan to unclutter it. Read more »

New release - stacking taskbars Dec 10

Today we released one of the most requested feature - stacking taskbars. 

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Project Management of Today's Society Dec 08

By John P Reiling
Everyone seemed to be coping up with the great change in our society, which is technology. Everything around us is connected to it - traffic lights, hidden cameras in the mall, buying items on the Net or what we called "online shopping", even iPhones! And because everything is about technology, there should be somebody who needs to take care of everything that is going on in the Internet.
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Project view updated Nov 12

We're happy to announce that Ganttic got updated and some useful features added. Read more »

Trying too hard to be efficient might bring down your efficiency… Nov 01

  It has been said that efficiency is doing the thing right and effectiveness is doing the right thing.  This strategy is vital in the business world. In an economy that is as unstable as the current economy is, certainly no one can afford to be ineffective and inefficient. If you do not have your resources properly in line then you are not operating your business to its highest potential. This greatly affects a business’s bottom line. 

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Gi-Ganttic Results from Ganttic, the Gantt Chart Masters Oct 25

Many people who have been trying to stay organized using either Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Project have ended up frustrated by the seemingly Herculean proportions of the task.  Microsoft Excel has an excellent database format, but as it is not a tool designed specifically for scheduling, using it to coordinate projects can prove awkward and unreliable.  
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We are going international Oct 23

Our site was just in english. Now we've added Spanish, French, Russian and Estonian. German, portugese and more are coming soon Read more »

Ganttic got another great review from experts Oct 06

Web-Based-Software.com is a business-oriented Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) directory. We’ve been gathering the best web applications and constantly update our directory, which has been ever-growing since its launch in 2001. Read the original article from here. Read more »

Excel planning fades to the past Oct 06

excel planningMost of the businesses use resource scheduling in their everyday life, but most common tools for it are still e-mails, paper wallcharts, notebooks and Excel spreadsheets. Specialized tools are expensive, complicated and hard to implement. So we saw the gap in the market and created just a right product to fill this gap.

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Out of beta Oct 05

We started with pre-alpha version of our resource scheduling software early 2008. It was called Yutiti back then. After 2,5 years of developing, testing and listening to our users, we're finally out of beta. Read more »

Ganttic through the eyes of Greatstartups.com Sep 30

Today we've got a review from www.greatstartups.com  - a weblog strictly focused on Startups. Read more »

Yutiti is now Ganttic Sep 27

online project managementYutiti has enjoyed quite a success during its beta period from 2008.
Now it has had a serious facelift and is rebranded as Ganttic.
Online project management has just got easier!
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Great review about us Sep 03

Makeuseof.com, the site writing about important stuff happening in the kingdom of Internet, got us reviewed. Read more »

New release Jul 29

23rd of July we released a new version of Ganttic. Some bug fixes and new features as described below: Read more »

For what you can actually use Ganttic? Just project planning? Jun 23

Well, that has been our main question from the very beginning. When you create software you have to think about it. No one will use software what does everything from project planning to file sharing. Ours has a purpose. Read more »

Advanced user rights system Jun 10

online project management Hide, show only or grant full rights depending on process. Allow just project planning or full administration rights. 
Online project management offers convenience of simultaneous users but this has to be controlled carefully to avoid problems.
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Why should an enterprise worry about resource and project planning? Jun 09

Resource planning is definitely no fun. It is work and as we all know, all kind of work should be avoided :) . Unless it's a must. Believe me, resource and project planning is. Read more »

USERS LOVE GANTTIC


Imtech


"Ganttic is user friendly,
support is excellent.
Truly an improvement in efficiency!"
 

Levente L. Orban 
University of Ottawa

"I find Ganttic to be the most flexible and most user friendly project scheduling application available today."



"Most other resource planning tools are just too complicated for basic scheduling tasks."



"The friendly user interface has enabled rapid adoption within PDF."


"Ganttic is the only available solution to meet our need for
a high level scheduling tool."
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