Accord SmartWorks Project Planner is basically a project planner software that assists users in making plans, managing resources and risks, estimating costs, analyzing through PERT and Critical Path as well as Gantt and Network Diagram, and other useful functions. Overall, it is a program that enables planning and managing to be time efficient and productive. It is the tool project manager need to have since there are two available editions to select from, namely Personal Edition and Multi-user Edition. The Personal Edition of Accord SmartWorks Project Planner is limited for one user only but has all the privileges to manipulate the software. This does not require any configuration to server since it is built with database already, but no option to send mails either. On the other hand, Multi-User edition is good for hierarchy of users, such as manager and admin, with the options to send mail to other users or groups. It also allows configuration of server before anyone is able to login or open a project.
Accord SmartWorks Project Planner Reader is associated with SmartWorks Project Planner, which is a software known to be a project planning and management software, so this planner reader is a viewing program of the mentioned software. Any files that are created using SmartWorks Project Planner are readable through this software at anytime in a computer where this is downloaded. In fact, it can also read files originated from MS-Project, which is another application of the same function. The only thing that makes this function works is to convert the MPP files (files from MS-Project) to PPR files, which are the files resulted from SmartWorks Project Planner. Either files is subject to easy reading as Network diagrams, Cost graphs, Resource graphs, Gantt charts, and others. In addition, users of this reader application have the option to use password permission to make all entry data or files as confidential and secured as possible.