Seavus Project Viewer does everything that it's developers say it will do, and it does these things with very impressive ease and speed. Installation was quick and problem-free, and there is essentially no learning curve and no study time involved in using it for the first time.
When there many people who need to view MS Project plans and status only and not to re-plan them, Seavus PV has several advantages compared to providing the full capability of MS Project to all viewer users:

 . Viewer users are not confused or distracted with unneeded functionality in the menus;
 . Viewers users are not tempted to try to make changes in the project planning or status information;
 . The views presented by Seavus PV are identical to those in MS Project;
 . Navigation to various views feels identical to that in MS Project;
 . PCs or notebooks used for viewing require less capacity and therefore are cheaper than those using MS Project;
 . Software licensing costs are significantly reduced.
The Help menu and content are very well designed.
I recommend Seavus Project Viewer as a cost effective, high-quality solution whenever multiple viewer users need to have access to projects that are planned, scheduled and monitored with MS Project. It is also very useful for importing and exporting data from and to MS Outlook.

Russell D. Archibald
Fellow, PMI and APM/IPMA, PhD (Hon), MSc, PMP, PMI Member No.6
www.russarchibald.com

Author, "Managing High-Technology Programs and Projects," 2003, Wiley (Available also in Russian, Italian, and Chinese)

As a professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering I do not teach Project management courses, but as a project manager of many international projects I use Microsoft® Project Professional in my daily work. Since the budget of the projects that I manage is always limited, we need to cut costs as much as possible. With Seavus Project Viewer we save up to 90% of the costs for additional Microsoft® Project applications, particularly with the special discount for University/Educational users.
As a project manager I need Microsoft® Project to create and change detailed project plans, but other project participants only need to view my files to be informed about task schedule, resources allocation and deadlines. I have also looked through other project viewers, but Seavus Project Viewer totally fulfilled my requirements.
All project participants find the viewer very easy to install and with a user friendly interface. It is very easy to navigate and display views, charts and tables created in Microsoft® Project. All information about different tasks, defined milestones, resource usage and project progress are available with exactly the same look and feel as in Microsoft® Project. Therefore, all my new team members do not need to spend extra time in learning how to use Seavus Project Viewer and they quickly get into the real work.
I am especially satisfied that the compatibility with Microsoft® Project is complete. Another feature that I found very useful is the Microsoft® Excel and Microsoft® Outlook Integration tool of the viewer. It allows me to view and analyze project plans created in Microsoft® Excel and to share my Outlook tasks with other team members.

Dr. Marija Kacarska
Associate professor
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
University of Cyril and Methodius
Macedonia

I use Microsoft® Outlook as my main daily activities manager, including as my task manager. It's easy, friendly and integrates many different tools, but despite its useful features and tools, Outlook misses a report tool that really responds to professional needs.
View, print and analyze my outlook tasks in a Microsoft® Project like interface sounded as a great idea and solution for me.
Seavus Project gave to my Microsoft® Outlook Tasks, the same professional and effective view and report of Microsoft® Project, in just a few mouse clicks.
Now I can share with my team members, the status of my outlook tasks in a many different graph views, making easy for them to follow through.

Carlos Trindade
Chairman - Board of Directors
Methodist University of Sгo Paulo

I am enjoying using your viewer and had no difficulty opening up all my Microsoft® Project files and seeing all the information I wanted. It required very little effort to find the desired functionality. In many organizations only some people need to edit plans, others just need to be able to read and comment on them. In such cases, I think this viewer can be an economical option."

Mr. Roque
University Professor
Coimbra
Portugal

"Seavus Project Viewer is a useful tool to look at projects.  Any person will learn how to use it quickly because the interface is easy and fast, even for people who do not use this kind of program.  Both Seavus Project Viewer and Microsoft® Project look together.  They show very similar characteristics with the clear difference in the price.
I would recommend Seavus Project Viewer to be used by engineering companies together with Microsoft® Project".

F. Javier Garcнa Ramos
Centro Politйcnico Superior
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA
Spain

"I have used Microsoft® Project for quite a bit and it is very good for when I make projects.  The first time I saw your viewer I was very satisfied with it.  It's very complete.
The look of Microsoft® Project and Seavus are very similar and I feel very well with both but the viewer is much less money."  I saw all the viewing screens for my project and it didn't miss any of them.  I would say to others that this is a good viewer for looking at the project."

Jose Luis Garcia Garcia,
Professor,
INSTITUTO DE EDUCACIУN SECUNDARIA,
Castilla y Leуn (Spain)

"The Seavus Project Viewer installation was quick - we had a project file open and printed within minutes which was the initial requirement.  Adjusting the views to our liking was intuitive & similar enough to Microsoft® Project that we were able to begin using the product straight after installation. Compared to the expense of purchasing a full version of Microsoft® Project, we feel the Seavus Project Viewer is the best alternative available when issuing project plans for multiple users to view.

Many thanks for supplying a great tool to get a job done"

Stephen O'Brien
Network Manager
Nord Anglia Education
Cheshire, UK

In the course of teaching at the local university (Montana Tech of the University of Montana) and working at a technology testing facility, a variety of people send me Microsoft® Project files (mpp) so I can review project schedules and milestones. Now, I have never used Microsoft® Project, either at work or in my college classes. My project managers and some of my students use it but whenever they need me to review things, they had to somehow convert the file into an image or a portable document format (PDF) file. Consequently, I only got half the picture. And my students invariably ended up in a computer lab that did not have the software loaded and so they could not print schedules conveniently either. So I went searching for a better way. And I found it. I ran across Seavus Project Viewer, which allows me to view the entire mpp files - schedules, Gantt charts, diagrams, tasks, resources usages, etc. Now I can see the whole picture when I am reviewing project milestones or resource usage. Although there were several other viewers I thought that the Seavus Project Viewer had the right feel to it. From the website it seemed easy to use. When I inquired about their academic version they sent me a copy and it took all of 32 seconds for me to install and bring up an mpp file. With easy to use buttons, I could view and print schedules, charts, and resources. So far, I am extremely satisfied with the product. Now my co-workers and students do not have to perform extra steps for my review. Aside from a few memory glitches that distort the graphic buttons if you load too many programs, I can view and print elements in the mpp file quickly without having any prior knowledge of using Microsoft® Project. This one is a keeper.

Ruthmeri Gleason
Instructor in the IT department
(course name: Introduction to Publications)
Montana Tech - the University of Montana

"Being a user of Microsoft® project, it wasn't difficult to get round the main functions and the 'help' contents were very useful and easy to follow.  In general, I found Seavus Project Viewer to be quite similar to Microsoft® Project. And it has good functionality - being able to 'import' and 'export' information to other Microsoft® Office programs is a definite plus."

Bernard Aritua
Research Assistant
School of Civil Engineering
University of Leeds