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Dawn of the 3D Gantt Chart
My company has been in R&D mode for several years now, and one area of focus has been to try to reinvent and improve the Gantt Chart. Gantt charts use the Y-axis to display the WBS and the X-axis to show the timeline. The data date (or status date) is rendered as a vertical line…
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Steelray Delay Analyzer 0.14
There’s a new version of our Delay Analyzer — version 0.14. You can read about it below, but we highly recommend you watch this 8-minute video which walks you through all of the new features. For those of you who don’t like watching videos (what?), here’s a summary of all of the changes: Grid pane…
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Introducing . . . Analyzer for P6
Yesterday (February 9, 2022), we released a new software product: Steelray Analyzer for P6. In a nutshell, Analyzer for P6 (AP6) is a streamlined schedule quality and performance analysis tool that is designed from scratch to work with Primavera P6 XER files. You use it to find potential issues with your schedule, both from a…
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Give Up the Hierarchy
Think back to the days before software . . . We stored paper documents in folders and organized the folders in drawers and the drawers in filing cabinets. We kept our contacts information in a Rolodex or an address book, organized alphabetically. When we needed some information from a book, we’d go to the library…
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Introducing: Monthly Subscriptions
Some of you have noticed that we added a new option for purchasing our Project Analyzer product: monthly subscriptions. We believe that this will be a better option for those of you who have been purchasing an annual subscription to use on schedules where your time on the project is measured in months, not years.…
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Steelray Statement on install4jshell
Our products, including the open-source and third-party packages used by our products, do not use (and have not used) the Apache log4j framework; they are not impacted by the log4jshell vulnerability.
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Working From Home
In an organization where you are valued based on your results, working from home vs. the office shouldn’t be a big issue. With webcams, Slack, online meeting software, cloud storage, etc., the drawbacks are minimal. Some managers worry about how their remote employees are spending their time. What if they spend half their day binge-watching…
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What Ever Happened to IBM’s Watson?
But the grand visions of the past are gone. Today, instead of being a shorthand for technological prowess, Watson stands out as a sobering example of the pitfalls of technological hype and hubris around AI.” Article: What Ever Happened to IBM’s Watson? The above article on how Watson failed to deliver on its promise of…
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Should You Ask a Vendor About Competitors?
We were giving a demo the other day of two new products we’re working on, and near the end, one of the people on the call posed this question; how do we compare to [Competing Product X]? It’s a question I am asked from time to time, but one that makes me a little uncomfortable.…
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While Supplies Last
March deal: buy ONE license for the price of TWO and receive a SECOND license ABSOLUTELY FREE!