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Ketura was designed to give you a different approach to project management and issue (bug/defect) tracking.Organize your work. Track time. Manage customer requests and other work issues. Schedule and deliver your team projects on time and within budget. Here are some key features of “Ketura”:

· Accurate project schedules. Ketura doesn’t just tell you how much work there is to do, it predicts when it will be done and how long it will take. Ketura takes into account staff absence and availability, ensuring that you have the best schedule estimates for your projects.
· Designed for changing circumstances. Even the best prepared project teams encounter unforeseen circumstances. Ketura makes it quick and easy to reassign work, move issues between milestones or defer issues to ensure that you hit your deadlines.
· Manage all your projects in one system. You don’t have to juggle multiple project files. With just one Ketura system, all your current projects are live and available, all the time.
· Built-in timesheets. Traditional project management software requires you to update your project progress manually. With Ketura, team members log their own time as they undertake work, using a single-click work timer, and provide their latest estimates of the amount of work left to do. Out of the office? Team members can update their work journals after the event. Either way, you always have the latest, most accurate, information available.
· Prevent schedule slips before they happen. Your team has insight into the work it is undertaking. Make the most of it! Ketura calculates two schedules for every project: one based on the ‘official’ project plan, and one based on the latest expectations of team members. You instantly see any discrepancies between the two, making it possible to deal with possible schedule slips before they happen.
· Control your budget, not just the project schedule. Successful projects come in within budget, as well as on time. Ketura knows the hourly cost of all your team members’ time, so you always have a current budget projection.
· Integral issue management. Never again lose track of customer requests, project requirements, goals, defect reports, help desk tickets or other issues. Assign issues to project milestones, as and when you want to schedule them for work. Add tasks to each issue, to define what work needs to be undertaken, and by whom.
· Understand what’s happened. Want to know who worked on an issue, milestone or project? How long it took? How much it cost? Whether team members have managed to spend the intended amount of time on a project? Want that data filtered by a particular time period? Ketura makes all this information readily available.
· Spot trends. Ketura shows you long-term trends in the cost and quantity of work required to complete projects and milestones. This can be a useful reality check on over-optimistic expectations.
· Automatic, personalized to-do lists. Eliminate misunderstandings. Ketura gives each team member his or her own to-do list, based on all the work scheduled for them in various projects. Every team member knows exactly what to be working on.
· Simplicity at the start. Sophistication when you need it. You don’t have to use all of Ketura’s capabilities at the outset. Start simply, then explore its capabilities and define sophisticated workflows (perhaps to comply with your organization’s procedures) at your own pace.
You’re not alone. Araxis offers free support during your trial period, and for the first year after you buy Ketura. After that, you can renew support for a modest fee, giving you continued access to the latest product updates and Araxis support staff.:
· Much more than project scheduling. Organize your work. Track time. Manage customer requests and other work issues. Ketura is designed to help your team work together efficiently.
Limitations:

· 45 days trial What’s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

Known issues with this release:

· Under Mac OS X ‘Leopard’, the entry that Ketura adds to the Firewall tab of the Security item in System Preferences is listed as ‘java’, instead of ‘Araxis Ketura’.

Enhancements:

· There is now an entirely new Quick Start Guide (PDF), which you can download and, if you desire, print out. [I9425]
· Two substantial new help articles have been written, Using Ketura to Manage Sofware Development and Integrating Ketura with Araxis Merge and SCM (Version Control) Systems. [I9425]
· The Ketura Documentation Contents has been completely restructured to give it an easier to understand, linear flow. Many existing articles have been extensively improved. [I9425].
· The milestone Issue tab now warns you (and tells you why) if issues from that milestone will not be shown in users’ task lists. [I10672]
· It is now possible to filter tasks in the Work journal entries for this issue section by date range on the issue Activity tab. [I10632]
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