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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 26, 2011 at 11:29 AM
The projects my team manages become more and more complex administration wise, but in most cases Excel seems to be the only tool available.
For my part I usually start with a mind map (usually MindView because its numerical tools are quite advanced) and export to Excel after the structure has been finalised.
Dominik mentioned Quantrix Modeler (http://www.quantrix.com/) and KNIME (http://www.knime.org/) here http://www.outlinersoftware.com/messages/viewm/10198 which got me interested. I was wondering what other similar tools might be available supporting planning, management and reporting, ideally in an integrated way.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 26, 2011 at 11:34 AM
I should add that structure is important, i.e. breaking down quantitative information from projects to tasks, linking separate entities between them (I don’t want to say sheets, because a different paradigm may be used) etc.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Aug 26, 2011 at 12:54 PM
I am sure you are aware of B-Liner, but I’ll put it out there anyway, just for old time’s sake:
Steve Z.
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Aug 26, 2011 at 06:15 PM
InfoQube is particularly well suited to manage structured information with large quantities of numbers. Its many display modes (hierarchy, flat), VBScript user code and extended filtering ability make this easy. Plus it is natively multi-user.
Pierre
IQ Designer
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 26, 2011 at 09:58 PM
Pierre, it’s been a while :-)
I have a pre-license to InfoQube and for me it remains one of the strong hopes for the future, even though I never quite spent the time to put it into real use; I remember I had practically announced I would here, but day-to-day works makes it difficult to integrate new tools into my workflow—kind of a Catch 22 situation I guess.
My increased numerical needs provide a renewed incentive and I intend to try it further. I have one question: I’ve heard numerous times from IQ users that it’s as stable as it gets, but I am still timid to use v0.x software in a professional environment. Can you say a couple of words about the upcoming development and expected official launch?
Thanks
Alexander