Keep budgets and schedules connected, from the first project change to the last.

Keeping detailed budgets and schedules in sync would be easy if your projects never changed. But since you work in the real world, you need Hard Dollar's game-changing, real-time integration with Microsoft Project. It allows you to make changes one time and simul-taneously update the budget and schedule. No more copying and pasting, no more importing and exporting.

• Create cost-loaded schedules in record time by loading MS Project schedules with budget and work plan data from existing Hard Dollar projects.
• Easily keep the work plan, budget, and schedule in sync when things change, such as project scope, item quantities, shift arrangements, and more.
• Run "what if?" scenarios across the budget and schedule to easily evaluate the impact of alternative resources, shift arrangements, production rates, and more.
• Streamline analysis of cash flow, earned value, and resource utilization with flexible, built-in tools and graphical output.

With Hard Dollar and MS Project working together in real time, your estimating and scheduling teams will actually work together as, well, a team. Along the way, you'll cut valuable time out of the process, and have instant answers to the toughest "what if?" questions that come your way.

Create cost-loaded schedules in record time

• Automatically load cost items (activities), estimated durations, and costs from Hard Dollar projects into MS Project schedules
• Select which cost items from the Hard Dollar project to include as activities in the MS Project schedule
• Roll-up multiple cost items from the Hard Dollar project into single activities in the MS Project schedule
• Drive MS Project durations from estimated durations in Hard Dollar, including productivity-based durations
• Drive MS Project durations from "plug" durations in Hard Dollar, allowing schedules to show different durations than the assumptions made in the budget

Keep the work plan, budget, and schedule in sync when things change

• Take advantage of one-click, real-time synchronization between the Hard Dollar project and the MS Project schedule (no import/export required)
• Automatically update MS Project activity IDs, descriptions, durations, and costs when changes are made to the Hard Dollar project
• Automatically update durations, start dates, and finish dates in the Hard Dollar project when changes are made to the MS Project schedule
• Automatically launch the linked MS Project schedule from within a Hard Dollar project with a single mouse click

Run "what if?" scenarios across the budget and schedule

• Perform "what if" analysis to simultaneously see the cost and timing impact of changes made to either the Hard Dollar budget or the MS Project schedule
• Change production rates or crew configurations in the Hard Dollar project and instantly see the resulting impact in the MS Project schedule
• Change shift arrangements in the Hard Dollar project and instantly see the resulting impact on the MS Project schedule
• Change quantities in the Hard Dollar project and instantly see the resulting impact on the MS Project schedule
• Make changes to durations in the MS Project schedule (e.g., drag bars to make them longer or shorter) and instantly determine the production rates required in the Hard Dollar project to hit the new scheduled duration

Streamline analysis of cash flow, earned value, and resource utilization

• Simplify earned value analysis and reporting using powerful tools in both MS Project and Hard Dollar
• Produce detailed cash flow graphs with ability to control cost and revenue curves, finance expense, and payment timing
• Produce detailed resource utilization graphs showing resource usage and cost over time for individual resources or resource types
• Export cash flow and resource utilization data to Excel with a single mouse click