Run a Forensic Analysis

Use these steps to perform a forensic analysis.

You must have a minimum of two projects imported into Acumen.

To run a forensic analysis, complete the following steps:

1. On the Forensics tab, click Create Analysis to start the Forensic Analysis wizard.
2. On the first page of the wizard, select the project that you want to use for a comparison as base project and click Next.
3. Select the project(s) that you want to compare against the base project. and click Next.
4. Select the fields that you want to compare and click Finish. The wizard automatically selects the fields that you have selected on the Fields tab in the Compare in Forensics column however you can unselect them or select additional fields if needed.

The Forensics tab displays the differences in the menu bar groups. The numbers in parenthesis indicate the number of differences for that field. Click on a field to view details of the differences. If needed, you can use the SmartGantt filter to filter the results and you can publish (export) the results.