“ProChain’s tool helps provide information on priorities and guidance on what I should work on next.”
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Clinician, Fortune 50 Pharmaceutical Company
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Fusion Suite
Across the enterprise, the Fusion Suite delivers intuitive, effective project management software solutions engineered to enable your organization’s full potential.
Shorten project timelines, improve reliability, and enhance outcomes with the world’s number one software-based application of the Critical Chain project management methodology.
Complete
Transparency
See what’s happening, where, and why. Make informed decisions fast, and stay ahead of the curve.
Intuitive Ease
of Use
Fusion Suite is designed to be easy to learn, use, and adapt to your unique needs.
Complete, Customizable Dashboards
Only see the information you need, in a format and layout that includes every relevant data point in one place.
Operation In the Cloud
or On-Premise
Use Fusion Suite however it makes the most sense for your organization. Go lean, or keep it all in-house.
Easy, Native
Integrations
The entirety of Fusion Suite is built to work seamlessly with Microsoft Project 2013 or later.
API
Readiness
Exchange information with Fusion Suite securely, using REST-compliant APIs and development support.
White Glove
Customer Care
Never wonder where to turn when you need help. Ongoing support and service is baked into every Fusion solution.
Enterprise-Wide
Functionality
Wherever and however you manage your projects—and however many there are—Fusion Suite can be tailored to the unique way you manage projects.
Your Views,
Your Way
Customized dashboards give you the freedom to configure and arrange your Fusion Online displays in whatever ways work best for you and your team.
Make Changes
Quickly and Easily
Add new projects, endpoints, tasks, and resources in seconds, and adapt to the dynamics of your projects’ environment as variables change.
Get Help When
You Need It
Fast help from the Fusion Suite experts at Prochain are always just a call or click away. Our online help portal is built to support you every step of the way.
Create Granular
Checklists
Manage detail by breaking tasks into smaller pieces and assigning component tasks to the team members who can get them done quickest with the best results.
Instant, Broadcasted
Communication
Send enterprise-wide announcements to inform users of upcoming events, key milestones, system changes, or project reminders.
Powerful Impact
Analysis
Quickly determine the consequences of a change on any given task and any given endpoint. Stay ahead of changes before they’re even made.
Multi-Level
Resource Scheduling
Manage your resources across all projects and programs, including individuals, skills, tasks, endpoints, and resource hierarchies.
Seamless MS
Project Integration
Fusion Suite has been developed to work with MS Project so that your team members, stakeholders, and schedules never miss a beat.
Fusion Online
For Team Members and Team Leads, Fusion Online delivers Enterprise-level power, control and insight that unites teams and promotes true operational synergy.
- Powerful, modern, cloud-based project management system based on the Critical Chain methodology
- Update, analyze, and report on projects in real time
- Seamlessly integrate with existing instances of Microsoft Project
Fusion Desktop
Stop wondering about the accuracy of your project schedules and start relying on them. Fusion Desktop shows you where to focus and how to optimize resource use to achieve speed and predictability.
- Fully featured support for individual project scheduling using a desktop computer
- Track, predict, and plan with remarkable accuracy
- Manage variation to make better-informed decisions
Fusion Pipeline
Obtain clear, globally based priorities for all tasks across all projects. See the interactions between any number of projects from a central location, and get access to the data you need to make better decisions, faster.
- Synchronize large programs and entire portfolios using shared resources and unified reporting
- Consolidate your efforts and get deep insights into all projects in one place
- Easy to use, scalable, and powerful solution for multi-project environments
FAQ’s
We have 25 years of testing our Critical Chain scheduling algorithms in the real world. It works in simple or complex environments by supporting a great variety of modeling options.
We have regular security audits to identify and fix potential security concerns. We host Fusion Online on Microsoft Azure, which maintains up-to-date, industry-standard security practices and protocols. Contact us to learn more.
Fusion Online supports current Firefox, Chrome, and Edge browsers, as well as Safari on mobile devices. It does not support Internet Explorer.
When you log into Fusion Online, there is a Tutorials button that brings you to the available courses and videos.
The latest version of Fusion Desktop supports Microsoft Project 2013 and later (32- and 64-bit) and interfaces with Microsoft Project Server. While we support the Microsoft Project Online’s Desktop Client, we do not currently support its Project Web App.
Fusion Desktop is an add-on to Microsoft Project. Installing it will add the functionality required for Critical Chain project scheduling and management—none of the Microsoft Project functionality is disabled. It comes with a project scheduler, a task update interface, analysis tools, views, and reports. Note that Fusion Desktop files can be opened and viewed by anyone with Microsoft Project.
No. Upgrading to the latest version of Fusion Desktop will automatically replace your older version, and also clean up old files and registry entries.
Fusion sizes buffers based on the amount of variability in the tasks, not the duration of the tasks. You can model this by specifying both “focus” durations and “low-risk” durations. If a task is guaranteed to be delivered on schedule, its focus duration would be set equal to its low-risk duration, and that task would not contribute to the buffer’s size.
Yes. Fusion is designed so that each project can have multiple endpoints or “deliverables.”
Percent Complete is subject to different interpretations. For example, there is a human tendency to say that you are 90% complete very quickly, and then spend just as long or longer finishing up the last 10%. Using Remaining Duration puts the focus on time, where it belongs.
Please contact us with your circumstances. We offer three standard training classes and we can also provide customized training. Classes can be done virtually or on-site at your location. Depending on your circumstances, our open enrollment Quick Start program may be more cost effective.
Yes. For example, the Quick Start course is worth 30 PDUs. Please contact us to find out more.
Yes for Fusion Online. You can access Fusion Online through browsers on Apple phones and computers.
Maybe for Fusion Desktop and Fusion Pipeline. Macs with Intel chips can run Windows and Microsoft Project. There are more limited options for newer Macs with Apple Silicon chips. Note that we do not test for these situations.
“For me personally, it took less time to do a task because I was focused. Helps me think through what needs to be done and where things tie in.”
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Team Member, Fortune 50 Pharmaceutical Company
“This project was a 138kV Radial Feed in Texas and had an 8% cost reduction and this one had a 30% schedule reduction, so it was a quite a significant schedule reduction. This customer was very high on reducing time and reducing costs…this project was 104 days of total construction, from breaking ground up to energization. At our post project meeting with our customer, they said they had an internal goal of trying to get to 180 days of total construction time. It’s hard enough to perform this work in the scheduled time, so to be able to reduce any time is a win in our customer’s eyes. So of course, we’ve gotten repeat jobs with this customer, and we’ve been able to maintain the schedule we set forth initially.”
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Continuous Improvement Manager, Small Engineering Company
“Critical Chain has been useful to get to the milestones more quickly. It is a different way of thinking — in a good way.”
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Clinical Project Manager, Fortune 150 Pharmaceutical Company
“With the old method, it is very hard to know what is going on. It took many searches and filters and I still always felt that I was missing something. Prochain shows the satus of tasks quickly and easily. It is easy to see what needs to be happening and what questions to ask.”
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Program Project Manager , Fortune 150 Pharmaceutical Company
“I’ve changed how I work, and now I have other people doing the same thing… As a result, we’re getting things done faster.”
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Team Member, Fortune 150 Pharmaceutical Company
“PCE allows a clean line of sight for current and future work.”
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Manager, Fortune 150 Pharmaceutical Company
“ProChain has caused the entire team to rethink about how to speed up work.”
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Team Member, Fortune 150 Pharmaceutical Company
“Without ProChain’s Project Management, I question whether this team would even have an agreed upon project plan, let alone be executing effectively on the project. The tool has been absolutely invaluable to this project and the team.”
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Program Project Manager , Fortune 150 Pharmaceutical Company
“Now, we’re working as a team to think things through, examine the impacts, and make decisions about what’s needed — we’re looking forward, not back.”
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Process Engineer, Fortune 500 Medical Device Company
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Orbital ATK
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Teleflex
Volcano
… and over 350 of the world’s top universities.
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The success of your projects is too important to risk trying an unproven project management solution. That’s why we invite you to experience Fusion Suite for yourself.
Try it for free now, or schedule a product demo at a time that works for you.