Galorath's New Microsoft Project Integration Simplifies Hardware Development Planning

Business Wire, Jan 31, 2008

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- A new Microsoft Project integration with the SEER for Hardware, Electronics and Systems (formerly SEER-H) suite of lifecycle cost estimating applications from Galorath (www.galorath.com), works as a powerful tool for estimating and planning projects by transforming SEER cost and schedule estimates into detailed, task-oriented plans in Microsoft Project. Galorath, whose clients include Boeing; Ford Motor Company; Lockheed Martin; NASA, and the U.S. Air Force, is a provider of advanced modeling tools for project estimation, planning and control.

With relatively few inputs, SEER anticipates and helps accurately plan every aspect of the product life cycle including development, production, operations and support. By transforming project estimates into Microsoft Project plans, it enables the definition of customized templates that are specific to an organization's processes, thus ensuring project plans adhere to organizational standards and practices.

In a simple four-step process, SEER users select an existing project, a planning scheme (a collection of processes, each specific to the type of SEER element being transformed) and a resource assignment scheme. The assignment scheme determines the appropriate labor categories for SEER effort estimates (custom resource assignments can be created). After users specify their inputs, the plan is seamlessly ported to Microsoft Project.

Plans can include development, acquisition, production, O&S, and system level costs. Extent of detail can vary from high level phases to detailed tasks and milestones.

The SEER for Hardware, Electronics and Systems Microsoft Project integration is now available as part of the SEER suite of project estimating and planning tools. For additional information, please call 310-414-3222, send e-mail to info@galorath.com or visit the company's Web site: www.galorath.com.

About SEER for Hardware, Electronics and Systems (Formerly SEER H)

SEER for Hardware, Electronics and Systems is a robust decision-support tool providing lifecycle cost for any size hardware project, from individual components to complete subsystems, systems and system of systems. Using parametric algorithms, extensive knowledge bases, and/or user-supplied data, SEER can reliably and accurately estimate the total cost of ownership for new product development projects. It also provides detailed insight into the risks, uncertainty and cost drivers associated with hardware development, acquisition and integration. You can integrate estimates for embedded software and detail production costs from Galorath's SEER for Software and SEER for Manufacturing applications respectively providing the most comprehensive and defensible project cost estimate possible.

About Galorath Incorporated

For more than 25 years, engineers, project managers and cost estimators have turned to Galorath Incorporated for the industry's most comprehensive set of decision-support and process management tools. Combined with extensive consulting and support services, Galorath's SEER estimation and analysis tools derive cost, schedule and staffing estimates by assessing the interaction and impact of product, organizational and even operational variables. This parametric methodology, coupled with the industry's most comprehensive knowledge bases, creates a rapid and powerful view of the critical factors driving program decisions.