LiveProject gives life to your project without the need or cost of multiple MS Project licenses. With LiveProject, you instantly gain the ability to view, print, share, manage and collaborate more fluidly on your project`s .MPP files.

Pros: Quite often you have a lot of people working on a project who need to collaborate closely. But then, giving each one of them a MS Project application is not cost effective always. LiveProject does just that to team members who do not need a full-fledged Project functionality. You instantly gain the ability to view, print, share, manage and collaborate more easily on your project`s .MPP files. Microsoft Project is not needed to view your project files. Members can interact with your project and truly collaborate. You are able to automatically distribute updates to your team members. You can easily print project’s tables, Gantt charts and table views. Members can suggest changes to the plan. These changes are visible live to everyone. When approved the changes can be incorporated into the plan and updates issued again. Set access control to the encrypted documents so that only authorized access is possible. Project versions are stored and tracking of changes including comments for the reasons can be tracked. This way the full MS Project is only needed for the managers who need to update the plans.

Project documents, particularly availability of updated documents to all concerned is a major factor in project success. The application provides you strict version control and means to share the documents on the project server. Project plans and documents can be shared with third party companies via the Liveproject server. Project overview bar provides project health at a glance. You can personalize your viewing preferences. Files can be exported via Excel, PPT, CSV, MPX and e-mail

Cons: Check it out in actual use situation to decide if it suits you.

Overall: Very nice collaborative features, easy to use and learn too. This is certainly good for 4 star category.