I-Schedule Shipping September, 2001.

August 5, 2001 San Diego, CA - Rational Concepts, Inc, announced that I-Schedule, the company's powerful, new planning and resource management software system will begin shipping in September of this year. I-Schedule allows critical path schedules and resources to be managed over the internet. Platform independent, I-Schedule is Java-based and built to take maximum advantage of Internet technology. Dan Cornell, President Of Rational Concepts, reports that, "Feature for feature, I-Schedule is the most powerful schedule management tool available for the internet. I-Schedule is a multi-project time and resource scheduler. It completes the suite of internet products at Rational Concepts. It is a pure JAVA solution and consistent with our commitment to take full advantage of all the Internet can offer project management." 

Top Level Benefits Provided by I-Schedule: I-Schedule manages schedules across multiple projects as well as manage resources and skills within the global enterprise. It can be used interactively or run with thin client queries that can be interactively edited through the internet or Email services. Team alerts, messaging and security can be utilized to streamline the information flow of any project or across projects.

Harness the Power of the Web: With I-Schedule, all of the information relating to a project's schedule is available anytime, anywhere. Customizable, queries provide managers with easy access to all of their reports. User-defined websites invite project collaboration through project links, corporate links to processes, drag-and-drop document sharing.

Resource Management: Resource load your schedule by pool, resource or skill with a single enterprise wide resource file. I-Schedule will determine how and what resources your company needs to successfully execute your projects. Interactive resource histograms allows easy resource adjustments to be made.

Multi-Project Scheduling: I-Schedule was built from the grounds up to handle portfolios of projects. Cross project scheduling, resource planning and reporting are a native part of I-Schedule's robust capability. 

Virtual Project Office: I-Schedule has a host of features that go beyond scheduling. Risk, Management, Email enabled action items and a host of collaborative features make I-Schedule a complete project office.

I-Schedule is written in Java, it can run on any platform. Oracle serves as the back-end database which completes I-Schedule's portability ands scalability. The client can be run on any platform that supports Java including both Netscape 4.0 or Internet Explorer 4.0 and above.

Rational Concepts, Inc. is based in San Diego and serves the project management community with software and consulting services. Companies choose RC when they face mission-critical projects and need the very best that technology can provide. Among the products RC offers are: Proj-Net's Tools for integrating all of a projects metric information (cost, schedule, technical, digital dashboards) and I-Cost, a complete cost management and EVMS solution. For more information call our Sales Department at (760) 632-0444 or send e-mail to sales@rationalconcepts.com.