The Omni Group

Wow! This looks great!

...counting down the minutes til the public beta is available…

Was I really that off the mark??

Anyway, I can't wait. I'm certainly hoping this is going to be leaps ahead of MS Office's horrible (and non-Universal) Project Manager.

I don't care about the app, but… WTF is that icon… Geez. Terrible.

I just pray that it has a web-based portion of it to allow us to work with those less fortunate (eg, Windows users.)

I was lucky enough to get invited to the private beta, and from the standpoint of a professional project manager, I have to give this little product a ringing endorsement!

Not only does it add the Omni ease-of-use and elegance to the world of Gantting, but it also adds some phenomenal groupware capabilities by publishing full project plans to the web, along with .ics calendars for every “resource” to take advantage of!

Awesome stuff. Can't wait to see it go final!

What were the requirements of getting in on the private beta? I have built several web-based project management apps…

I must be an Omni Fanboy because I like the icon.  I only wish this was around last December when I was in a Process Analysis class.  I can't wait to see it.  I have a serious love afair with everything else Omni.

Let's see if it's better than Merlin: http://www.projectwizards.net/en/merlin/

I hope so, because I like Omni-products.

Frightening, frightening timing. I was thinking earlier today that I needed a good Mac project management app.

I need to put my tin foil hat back on…

[...] Well, the cat’s out of the bag folks. OmniPlan is the name of that now not-so-super-secret new piece of software from Omni Group. As the name oh-so-subtly suggests, OmniPlan does project planning, complete with Gant charts and whatever else you project planning people do. I’m not quite sure what all of the features do, as I have zero background in project planning, but it’s sure pretty!  OmniPlan has been in private beta for about a week, and a public beta will be released on Wednesday. [...]

Looks like a nice product, but I don't see how one can use it to order a gorilla mask or make a dog bark on command.

I for one want a good Planning app but I do hope its has ease of use first and foremost - I'm not a programmer and have found the other mac planning apps (merlin etc) either too complex, too focused on software dev or just down right ugly! I hope this is the one for me!

Rock on.  As a professional PM I'm quite excited to get in on the public beta of this.  Ever since ProjectX fell off the planet I've been waiting for a good PM app so I can put way my copy of Microsloth Project I run through Parallels.

Is this an app to compete with Process 2?

OmniPlan…

O novo aplicativo da Omni Group, está saindo do forno e terá sua primeira versão beta nesta quarta feira, dia 26 de julho.

Ele vai ser um aplicativo para Administrar Planos de Projetos, e baseado no que acontece com outros produtos dessa empresa ach…

That's no inkwell…it's a pawn!

Please tell me this isn't the gtd application omni hinted at earlier.

[...] Jeff Powell joins us today. Here is what he looked at.. A Look Back in Time - 7 Years Ago Today Apple Introduces Airport Wireless Base Station New Democracy Player: free and open Internet TV Shiira 2.0 - A Visual Preview Omni Group Pre-Announces: OmniPlan - Project Management for the Mac Newly Released - The Ultimate Macintosh Reference Book Becoming a Macintosh Product Expert Becoming an Apple Genius So You Want to be a Mac Tech The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, Aged 51 1/2 A humorous new blog by Steve “Not Really” Jobs [...]

It would be really cool if it integrated with the open source dotProject online project management software ( http://www.dotproject.net/ )

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I'd say it's a “Stamp of Approval”

Hmmm. I'm a *huge* fan of Outliner and Graffle, but over the last 6 months or so I've grown fond of Merlin for project mgmt. Of course, I picked Merlin because nothing else worthwhile existed. And now Omni (reverent pause) steps into the ring? Looking forward to trying them both side by side…

http://www.activecollab.com Nuff .said

[...] OmniPlan - nowy produkt od Omni Group. OmniPlan jest aplikacj? do zarz?dzania projektami. W ?rod? ma pojawi? si? publiczna beta projektu. Ciekawe jak zniesie porównanie do BaseCamp. [...]

Thank you for wasting my time by making an announcement which provides absolutely no information beyond the name of the product.

I am truly excited by this announcement.  I have used AEC and was about to purchase a Merlin license (good grief it is lovely) when I heard.  Since I am not in the private beta and don't know what it offers allow me to spout a wish list.

1) As many import and export options as possible. I am always looking for the best way to present the information I produce in a PM program.

2) Hooks!  If you were righting this program for me you would have a DayLite (Marketcircle) hook that supercharges there “Project” function.  But being able to tie into Quickbooks to sequence the most important resource ($) is crucial as well.

3)  Reports!  This is of course a management tool, but I have always been struck at how few management reports are available.  As easy as it is to track resource utilization, I should be able to track cash flows and IRR for a project.

Thanks for letting me vent.

This is certainly cool news, but I think it would be very foolish to not integrate with the Basecamp API… I don't know if you will not not, I'm just saaaaying ;-)

Looking forward to the beta!

[...] I have been looking for some Mac based project management software and was not terribly happy with what I was finding. Good news just showed up, I found out that one of my favorite software companies is about to unveil a new project management program for the Mac: OmniPlan. These guys always seem to get things right. I just have to wait for a few more days for the public beta. If you are a Mac user be sure to check out the incredibly useful: OmniOutliner. [...]

Basecamp is my favourite web app, but OmniGraffle is my favourite desktop app. This will be very interesting to try out!

Sounds good, will it be anything like Copper Project which is probably the best looking/functioning project management app (but it is web-based)? Also what kind of price point are we talking?

Anyone know how this compares to the announced but delayed http://www.projectx.com?

i am looking forward to using your product!

Anyways, the macsphere doesn't seem to plan to support korean or other unicode languages. of course osx can support the lnaguage, but not as enough as windows' invincible IME settings.

if you are willing to dominate office and home environemnt, please think about users from outer countries which are out of A,B,C languages :)

Lordy - is this Lighthouse Design's TaskMaster reborn?

[...] I saw on TUAW that OmniGroup’s ’secret’ project has been revewaled. As a project manager I must admit I’m pretty excited about hte idea of a new and improved tool for project managment. Meet OmniPlan. OmniGroups blog says it is in secret beta now and will be in public beta soon. [...]

If it is not an inkwell, is it a rubber stamp :) ?

There is a replacement for Microsoft proje ct on the mac and it reads project file it's fasttrack schedule

Nah, the little black guy is one of those armless, legless PlaySkool people.

But I still don't quite get it…how is OmniPlan supposed to let me draw and manipulate images?  This is really OmniDraw in disguise, right?  Right?  Please?  Oh, fine, I'll go write the program myself.

my pointer was over the “buy” button, in the Merlin site, when I read the news… I'll wait some days more!

[...] Project management has been called the ability to create the impossible, with the unwilling, against insurmountable odds, under budget and on time. Omni Pilot, the makes of OmniGraffle (as well as other software) are releasing a new project management tool called OmniPlan [...]

“Jason, yeah - a HUMAN resource

By C. Lee Smith on 07.22.06 8:32 am'

Take it easy Lee.  I was making fun of BAD PM's out there.  I've suffered through several.  They never though of Resources as human. 

A good project management tool has keep many people I talked to away from the mac.  I think Omni's sales are set to skyrocket with this app.

What about iTaskX? Very clean interface. Very nice product. Lacking the PR machine. Just 65€.

http://www.itaskx.com/software/en/default.htm

Of course it isn't an inkwell.  It is a Lego(tm) version of the Spectre of Death, hovering near ALL project plans.

An interview with Greg Titus, lead developer for Omni Plan is posted on CocoaRadio:

http://www.cocoaradio.com/2006/07/omni_groups_gre.html

Tune in to hear all about Omni from a Cocoa ninja.

Ha!! I knew it.  I will be awaiting my beta for testing…

Awesome! Now puhlease return to outliner and add sheets (meaning, several outlines in one doc, for various views and tasks).

[...] had announced their new product, OmniPlan which will be released as beta on Wednesday the 26th of July. Rumor has it that Ethan from kGTD [...]