If you are managing your project schedules in Microsoft Project, and your project budgets in Excel, let EPK-Cost bridge the gap.
EPK-Cost allows you to integrate cost management with project management. With EPK-Cost, you can have a spreadsheet to do high level costing, and you can integrate that with Project. Because let's face it, projects do slip. If they slip, it would be nice to know what the impact is on the spend rate.
Project is excellent for bottom-up planning -- whether it's the schedules, resources, or the costing. EPK-Cost allows you to integrate your bottom-up planning with the high-level, top-down planning that was done when the project was approved. Don't let your high-level forecasting go to waste as you manage complex projects with Microsoft Project. You need an integrated solution that brings together the high-level planning and the bottoms-up constant re-planning that is done inside Project.
EPK-Cost can be quickly configured to meet your organization's business requirements. You define your fiscal calendar for initial estimates, approved project budget, current forecast. You create your cost category breakdown structure (Labor, Hardware, Software, Overhead, Contingency, etc.) with the levels you need. You define time-phased cost views with powerful graphical indicators/cell colors to highlight variances. The system's powerful rating function lets you convert man-hours/FTEs to costs. An API/SDK is available so you can integrate EPK-Cost with your other financial systems.