prozima planning engine

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PEngine, the Prozima Planning Engine, is a Java library which models complex portfolios of projects, containing multiple schedules, activities, milestones and resources. PEngine's algorithms calculate the optimum allocation of resources across all projects so that time and cost goals are met.

features

  • Portfolios: Multiple projects can share multiple resources.
  • Scenarios: Projects can contain multiple schedules and baselines. Schedules can be used to evaluate alternative scenarios.
  • Activities: Schedules contain both activities and milestones. Activities require resources to perform work whereas milestones have no work or effort associated with them.
  • Reactive Scheduling: Schedules are continuosly updated to adapt to changes. At any instant, you know the expected completion time of all activities, milestones and projects.
  • Cost Control: Allocate costs to resources using muliple rules and currencies.
  • Weighted Scheduling: You specify the balance between time and cost you require and PEngine finds the best possible schedule which meets your goals.
  • Minimum Dependencies: Only one third-party library is required by PEngine. The Apache Commons Logging package is used to provide advanced logging support. It is a very small package which can be included with proprietary, closed source applications. The use of this package gives developers the ability to view log messages generated by PEngine and to enable or disable logging. This is a mejor aid to development and debugging.
  • Flexible: PEngine is designed to calculate optimal schedules. It makes no assumptions as to where data comes from or is stored. Can be intergrated with any application, ranging from mobile applications to large-scale web services.
  • Relationships: Activities and milestones can be related to their predecessors in a schedule by one of 4 types of relationship: Start to Start, Start to Finish, Finish to Start and Finish to Finish.
  • Compact: PEngine occupies less than 250kB when built and optimised.
  • Evaluation: There is free evaluation version of PEngine available for download. This enables the user to fully evaulate and test the library and its API before purchase.
  • No DRM: PEngine is distributed with no DRM or other licensing technology. The developer only has to think about integrating the library with their code.

documentation

The API provided by the Prozima Planning Engine is available for review. You can view the latest version of the API here in Javadoc format. The API documentation is also included in the PEngine library zip file. The zip file also contains the license under which the library is released and release notes.

downloads

PEngine Library download library Prozima Planning Engine Evaluation Version contains an evaluation version of the library, release notes, license and API documentation.
Example Code download example code Prozima Planning Engine Example Code contains example source code which demonstrates how to use the PEngine API.

full version

A fully functional version of PEngine is now available for evaluation and testing. It provides support for an unlimited number of projects, schedules and resources and all features are present. If you are interested in licensing a full version of the library, please contact a Customer Support adviser.