PLANTA Add-Ons
for flexible customization
Simply integrate the PM Suite and adapt it to your company processes
PLANTA Add-Ons: stay flexible and maintain investment security at the same time
The PLANTA PM Suite enables you to build an integrated project information system which is perfectly adapted to your company processes. Despite its high performance the solution remains clearly arranged for all persons who work with it.
PLANTA link
The universal interface for simple data exchange
PLANTA link allows you to configure interfaces for data import and export to other systems in a flexible and reliable way. This PLANTA add-on thus offers individual solutions for the specific requirements of each individual customer.
- PLANTA provides support for different interface technologies like web services and SAP RFC calls.
- Interfaces are parameterizable and automable and can quickly be adjusted to company processes.
- Predefined interface templates additionally facilitate the use.
- With PLANTA link you can also control intermediate steps for data convertion, checking as well as processing.
- Via PLANTA link you can interconnect external systems: Interface to SAP, Jira, Microsoft Project, and PLANTA pulse (hybrid project management)
Your benefits
- Flexible: import/export controlled by parameters
- Safe: complete data integration
- Transparent: logging of all actions
- Reliable: plausibility check
- Simple: simplified working due to templates and archiving function
- Individual: appropriate interface for each customer
- Process-oriented user interface based on the company workflow
- Lean database architecture
- High performance even with >1000 users
In order to use the Universal Interface, the PLANTA link add-on must be licensed. PLANTA link enables you to exchange data with other systems, e.g. ERP systems.
PLANTA Jira link
Link another agile system to PLANTA project in addition to PLANTA pulse
Due to its smooth combination of traditional and agile project methods, the use of agile systems in the course of a hybrid solution provides new options which are heavily demanded in times of digitalization and new work. PLANTA pulse and PLANTA project combine agile and traditional functionality in one integrated hybrid system. Some fields of application call for a link to other agile systems, like e.g. Jira. For such fields of application, PLANTA has designed the new Jira interface.
Jira integration, which is based on web interfaces (PLANTA link), enables you, among other things, to synchronize the projects and tasks planned in PLANTA project with Jira. Conversely, hours reported in Jira can also be synchronized with PLANTA project.
Here, Jira epics are synchronized with PLANTA and recorded hours from Jira are automatically transferred to PLANTA project via webhooks.
Your benefits
- PLANTA Jira link allows you to use hybrid planning models.
- With Jira, project teams can administer their tasks flexibly and plan their projects agilely.
- PLANTA project provides the management with a basis for detailed planning of projects and for monitoring budget, resource utilization, and project progress as well as for reporting the projects planned with Jira.
PLANTA MSP link
Establish an optimal connection to MS Project
PLANTA Project is a high performance database-oriented project management system. However, it can also be used in combination with MS Project, e.g. for contractors, suppliers, or in other departments: With PLANTA MSP link, both systems can be integrated.
Your benefits
- You can use different project management systems in an integrated multi-project environment: the PM software you already use and MS Project in addition
- Allows your project managers to keep using the tool they are familiar with
- Project information can easily be consolidated via different platforms and status reports “at the push of a button”
PLANTA customizer
Flexible Adjustment in Line with Your Requirements
With the PLANTA customizer you can quickly and flexibly make adjustments to the PLANTA software in line with company specific requirements and processes — also by the customer him/herself. This ensures that customer specific adjustments are maintained when updating to later software releases.
Module Customizing
Module customizing means the creation of new processing and analysis modules or the modification of existing ones.
- Edit layout, data fields, and data areas
- Creation of new modules
- Numerous design elements
- Can be carried out by PLANTA or by the user
System Customizing
System customizing allows system-wide changes to be made in PPMS with regard to logic, data model, and user interface. Usually, PLANTA or a system expert at the customer’s site will carry out the system customizing.
- Adjustment of the data model by editing the Data Dictionary (define text type and text format, mark as OLE objects, define visualizations in scales, etc.)
- ID adjustment
- Object protection (information on creation and last changes made to records)
Python integration
In order to increase the adaptability of the software and render it even more flexible, PLANTA has integrated open source programming language Python in the PLANTA customizer.
Reasons for PLANTA to decide for Python:
- intuitive language which can be learned easily
- clear and well-readable syntax
- particularly comprehensive standard library included in the delivery
PLANTA secure
For a maximum of security
Your benefits of PLANTA secure
- User comfort
- Integrable in existing security concepts
- Two-factor authentication
PLANTA has always provided a high level of security for customer data with its PLANTA Project on-premise solution.. Customers with high data protection requirements also ask for additional security standards — finding the answer in PLANTA secure.
PLANTA secure illustrates the current security standard: the two-factor authentication (2FA), which is recommended by the German Federal Office for Information Security.
2FA is an identity proof that has to be provided by the user of a system in order to be able to start the system. The user identifies himself with a combination of two independent factors — something he/she owns and something he/she knows. You will know this principle from ATMs: if you want to withdraw money, you will need to have a bank card and the corresponding PIN.
Applying this approach to software use, instead of PIN and bank card, a password and a hardware part such as a token or a chip card will be used in order to log onto the system.
PLANTA secure can be included in existing security concepts. This means that customers can continue to use the authentication method, which is already being used in their company. A token-less authentication using a passcode sent via SMS onto the user’s mobile phone is also possible.
Reverse Proxy: Safe Connection and Access Protection
As an additional security element, PLANTA has implemented a reverse proxy connection. External as well as internal requests are handled by the reverse proxy, which will forward them to the application server within the internal network. As there is only a connection between the requesting system and the proxy, the internal network need not to be known. The reverse proxy connection provides a very secure connection via SSL certificate from the client through the firewall to the server and prevents accesses to the server from the outside.
Single Sign-on
The user authentication can be carried out for several servers via reverse proxy. Thanks to single sign-on, the user only needs to log-on once in order to use the services of several servers.
