Significant extensions to Ad-Hoc reporting have been added through the Custom Report Builder.  Including:

• Two new custom report data sets have been added:
  • WBS (Cost). This enables you to create custom reports broken down by the full work breakdown structure. Choose from 68 data fields to include in your report.
  • WBS (Revenue). Similar to the WBS cost dataset, this dataset provides the revenue fields broken down by WBS.  Choose from 55 data fields to include in your report.
• You can now add grouping and subtotals to user-selected custom report fields.  See screenshots to the right.
• You can now add formatting to WBS folders.  See screenshot to the right.

The new Project Spend Profile report is designed to summarize capital project spend for a program or project summary. It details all current capital projects in the program (or company/division) and compares Budget, Actual and Forecast for the current and future years in a month-over-month report. There is both a tabular and chart version of the report. You can export the report to Excel for printing and further processing.

The project summary report (formerly the Project Quick Report) now includes charts in the Excel version of the report. The report also now breaks out the Contingency on a separate row before the total project summary budget.

The S-Curve report can now be visualized by Cost, Revenue or Hours. Choose the perspective using the available tabs. You can also now export the charts to PDF and to Excel. The Excel version also includes the tabular data.

The MS Project Live Link to 4castplus has received a number of enhancements to increase capability and flexibility.

• You can now insert parameters into your MS Project file that provide instructions to the Live Link as to how to import tasks into 4castplus. For example, you can specify Progressing tasks in Project that will be imported as Rules of Credit in 4castplus. You can also specify schedule-only tasks in Project that will be ignored by 4castplus (so as to not clutter the WBS in 4castplus with items that will never have budget or progress)
• There is a new Attach feature that allows you to link an MS Project file to an existing 4castplus project
• There are new reports in 4castplus that give visibility into the Live Link status, including last sync date, sync file used, last person to sync, etc.

Further enhancements to project contingency management in this release include a new area on the project profile to manage contingency adjustments. You can tweak the total contingency reserve by adding & removing lump sum adjustments. You can specify positive or negative amounts to adjust the contingency by. Included is a summary report of the total contingency and how it’s been derived.
You can also now add a Cost Code for the contingency. This is to enable you to line-up the contingency amount with your financial system.