| OLYMPIA, Wash., March 23 -- Business Arts
today announced that its ProjectSheet®, TaskSheet(TM), and TopSheet(TM) project planning
software received the highest rating for ease of use and performance in a review from PM
Network, the professional magazine of the Project Management Institute, an organization of
more than 200,000 project management professionals.
According to reviewer David Essex, "Microsoft
Office-based tools can turn everyday desktop software into a sophisticated project
tool." Mr. Essex challenges readers to "lose the sloppy Word tables and
makeshift Excel schedules," and identifies Business Arts' planning software as among
"the most professional-quality, reasonably priced" examples of products that use
Office applications to provide project management.
Business Arts president and co-founder Chris Barnes notes,
"As a company, we place a lot of emphasis on visual design and usability, believing
that simple, elegant solutions are most effective. To have our products recognized as
credible tools by a premier project management resource is further validation of both our
approach and our efforts to date."
In his review, Mr. Essex observes that, "Business Arts
Inc.'s software doesn't use macros or visual basic for applications programming, avoiding
the need for formal installation. More importantly, it circumvents pop-up security
warnings that can slow user interaction and burden IT departments."
"By building our products in Excel, we have been able
to provide extendable, collaboration-rich tools that deliver useful features at a
reasonable cost," says Business Arts co-founder Robert Guillou.
Business Arts products are licensed to people, not
machines, so individual users may use the software on unlimited computers. In addition,
licensed users can send fully-functional project schedules via e-mail; recipients only
need their own license if they will modify the schedule or create a new schedule, simply
viewing or printing a schedule does not require an additional license.
Business Arts products are available for purchase at
http://www.businessarts.com/. Single-user licenses for ProjectSheet, TaskSheet and
TopSheet are $120, $90, and $80 respectively when sold separately, or $240 bundled.
Non-profit and government discounts are available.
About Business Arts
Business Arts is a privately held company based in Olympia,
Washington. Business Arts entered the software market with its premier product in June
2005, adding two new products in Summer 2006 to create an Excel®-based suite of project
planning tools.
Company Information: Name: Business Arts, Inc. Address: 120
State Ave NE, #304 City: Olympia State: WA ZIP: 98501 Country: USA Phone: 800-560-1285 http://www.businessarts.com |
