The RationalPlan product line from Stand By Soft consists of separately available products focused on project management; including the ability to view or manage single or multiple projects (depending on product). Among the current entries in the product line are:

- RationalPlan Single Project is project management software designed to assist project managers in developing plans, allocating resources, tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workload. Target users include construction, engineering, services and consulting, business, software development or student projects.

The vendor describes the application is an alternative to Microsoft Project; including project management features from WBS construction, project planning and scheduling to path management, overallocated resources detection, progress tracking, cost estimation, etc. Gantt chart support as well as various time line reports are also provided.

Other features include: Cost estimate mechanisms, screening cash-flow time distribution for tasks and resources; step by step project guide that walks you through the project management process; multiple undo/redo levels; critical activities alerting with configurable slack.

- RationalPlan Multi Project supports the interrelation of projects; that is certain tasks from one project depend on other tasks from the other projects. Also, the vendor states that you should choose the Multi Project version if you have resources that are working in multiple projects; otherwise the Single Project version is enough.

Features include the ability to manage your company's projects as a multiproject tree structure and share resources between them; and the ability to track project evolution regarding task's completion, time and costs.

- RationalPlan Project Viewer is a free project management software viewer, a viewer for the vendor's other RationalPlan products. It also supports importing and viewing MSProject files.

Other features include: All original views and data are available; export to other formats and printing are active; view/hide critical path command is enabled; supports an unlimited number of free installations.

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