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What is DeltaProd ?
Its name could mean "Delivery Task Producer", that is "Producer for tasks about deliverable production".

It is still unclear?
Well actually DeltaProd is a project management tool ...
... among many others.

In fact, if you look at all of the project management tools, you realise that they do not all cover the same features.
So, without going into the definition of project management, you must ask yourself what you need to follow up your project, or more precisely what a project management tool should allow you to follow.
The answer to this question depends of course on the nature of the project.
We will concentrate here on the issue of IT projects, which is the main purpose of DeltaProd, but rules described may be applied to most of project management cases.

We can try to list the activities to be followed for an IT project:

• Monitoring incoming requests: initial requests, requests for changes, requests for assistance, ...
  
• Monitoring the work of the team (tracking workload)
• Monitoring assignments (including holidays)
• Planning of the work of the team (planning of the remaining workload to produce)
• Follow-up pending actions
• Monitoring incoming products
• Monitoring issues
• Monitoring corrections
• Monitoring application frame
• Monitoring material frame
• Management of archives and backups
• Monitoring of versions
• Configuration Management
• Management of documentation
• Monitoring milestones
• Monitoring deliverables
• Monitoring deliveries
• Monitoring exchanges
• Monitoring workshops
• Monitoring follow-up meetings
• Monitoring committees
• Indicators calculation
• Risk Management
• Financial monitoring (costs, billing, ...)

All these elements must be returned in the form of synthetic dashboards.
There are tools to manage almost all of these elements, but none manages all. The idea of DeltaProd is to bring together within a single tool most elements of monitoring. The coverage of DeltaProd can be described as follow:

Activity	Coverage DeltaProd	Other tools covering the monitoring of this activity
Incoming requests	YES, covered by monitoring interventions
Workload	YES, followed by workloads on the interventions.	MS-Project. Open Workbench
Assignments	YES, management allocation on projects, and ability to manage leave as a type of intervention (possibly on a specific project).	MS-Project. Open Workbench
Planning	YES, the planning of remaining workload on interventions.	MS-Project. Open Workbench
Pending actions	YES, covered by monitoring actions.	Excel worksheets.
Incoming products	YES, covered by tracking chronos.	Excel worksheets.
Issues	YES, covered by monitoring interventions.	Mantis. PVCS Tracker.
Corrections	YES, covered by monitoring interventions.	Mantis. PVCS Tracker.
Application frame	YES, covered by the definition of applications, domains and versions, and management components with links to interventions.
Material frame	YES, covered by the monitoring components.	Excel worksheets.
Managing archives and backups	NO.
Versions	NO.	CVS or SVN. Visual SourceSafe.
Configuration Management	YES, covered by the monitoring components, and links to interventions.
Document management	NO, not as a DMS.	Filenet Documentum
Milestones	YES, covered either by the monitoring interventions delivery dates, or by monitoring chronos.	Excel worksheets.
Deliverables	YES, covered by the monitoring components, and links to interventions.	Excel worksheets.
Deliveries	YES, covered by tracking chonos or interventions depending on the type of management.	Excel worksheets.
Exchanges	YES, covered by tracking chonos.	Excel worksheets.
Decisions	YES, covered by tracking chonos or interventions depending on the type of management.	Excel worksheets.
Workshops	YES, covered by tracking chonos.	Excel worksheets.
Meetings	YES, covered by tracking chonos.	Excel worksheets.
Committees	YES, covered by tracking chonos.	Excel worksheets.
Indicators calculation	YES, many indicators calculated on interventions: deadlines and delays, expenses, returns, number for a type.
Risk Management	YES, risks and issues management	Excel worksheets.
Financial monitoring	NO, not in the current version. But DeltaProd returns the elements necessary for the financial monitoring.	There are as many tools tas companies, each with its specifications. Excel files appear to be most prevalent.

If you want more information, go to description , I'll try to describe a little more the beast. Otherwise, you can also download the tool , install and test it.

You can also have a look to one2team web site. They provide a global overview of project management that shows that it is not only restricted to planning.