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SPR Announces release of SPR KnowledgePLAN® version 4.4
8 July 2011
Software Productivity Research, LLC (“SPR”), today announces the latest release of its flagship software project estimation product SPR KnowledgePLAN®. Based upon the most extensive knowledge base of completed project data available in the market today (numbering nearly 18,000), SPR KnowledgePLAN® Desktop (“KPD”) enables software project managers to create detailed, bottom-up estimates and project plans. KPD is the only product of its type available with estimation algorithms based wholly upon the International Function Point Users Group (“IFPUG”) Function Point Analysis Methodology, the industry-standard software sizing metric in use worldwide.
SPR KnowledgePLAN® version 4.4 is a feature and content-based release in the SPR KnowledgePLAN® 4 estimation product line. It includes a number of enhancements and improvements over its predecessor:
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New Knowledge Base reflecting projects collected through 2010 - now includes 17,766 projects
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New Work Breakdown Structure (“WBS”) templates and associated domains
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Full compatibility with Microsoft® Vista, Windows 7, Microsoft® Office Project Professional and the latest version of SAP Business Objects Crystal Reports
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The newly provided knowledge base supplied with SPR KnowledgePLAN® version 4.4 contains the calibrated results of real project data collected by SPR and its clients during the past year.
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Version 4.4 includes an extract of over 250 of the languages from the latest version of the SPR Programming Languages Table.
“Powerful, Knowledge-based Software Estimation – Made Easy™”
SPR’s award-winning line of parametric estimation tools based on functional metrics and a historical knowledge base debuted in 1985, and is the choice of hundreds of organizations in over 30 countries.
Support, training, and consulting services offered provide our Global 2000 clients with professional and formal project sizing, estimation, and assessment capability. SPR markets KnowledgePLAN in the United States and around the world through an extensive network of authorized resellers.
Founded by Capers Jones in 1984, Software Productivity Research is an industry leader in the application of functional metrics, software benchmark data and project estimation methodologies. Our flagship software project estimation tool SPR KnowledgePLAN® is the latest generational product in the SPR line, following in the footsteps of Jones’ groundbreaking products SPQR/20® and Checkpoint®.
SPR supplies effective solutions for professional software engineering management on behalf of its clients around the world. Our mission is to provide our clients with the means to measure and improve performance of vital software engineering processes.
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