LiquidPlanner is officially launching its project management service today, which includes its commercial version. That means a couple of things: the public beta went well and LiquidPlanner is ready to take things to the next level, and they also get to start charging subscription fees for its service. I first learned of LiquidPlanner earlier this year at DEMO, and was pretty interested in its project management tool, as it has a patent-pending engine that helps you better manage uncertainty. You know, missed deadlines and such.
LiquidPlanner does this by combining range estimates with its probabilistic scheduling engine so that teams and management have a more realistic view of how a project will play out. This estimating project management tool comes in handy when you can see the monetary effects that scheduling delays have on an actual project. Some of the larger clients LiquidPlanner has gained since its public beta launch include Butterball Farms, Reed Business Information and Philips.
As we're seeing a number of client management services integrating additional tools like phone call text-to-speech conversion and cross-device support for organizing and accessing content, I wonder how well LiquidPlanner will eventually be able to fit into the larger picture of online project and task management tools. So far, LiquidPlanner has done a pretty good job layering in some useful features of its own.