Special-Purpose Operations

Cobra provides multiple special-purpose features and utilities that make project management easier.

These features include:

  • Top-down Planning: Use this feature to change existing budget and forecasting costs and prepare what-if scenarios at the project level.
  • Drill-down Analysis: Use this feature to display cost and schedule variances based on code files.
  • Multi-project Merges: Use this feature to merge subprojects for reporting purposes.
  • Global Operations: Use this feature to perform global recalculations, respreading, and reclassifications for a project.
  • Security: Use this feature to assign user passwords and read/write access to project data.

Cobra also provides system utilities for performing data file maintenance functions, such as backing up and restoring files.