| | |  | Networking & Online Communication | Home » » » » Business Plan Pro 15th Anniversary Edition | | | | | | | Description: | | Celebrating 15 years - The new 15th Anniversary Edition celebrates Business Plan Pro's decade and a half of market leadership and growing, vibrant user community of over 1 million successful entrepreneurs. Create a business plan in hours, not weeks. Discover why Business Plan Pro is the world's most popular business planning software, outselling all others combined. Business Plan Pro was rewritten from the ground up to take advantage of new technologies. A more visual interface and tools make your planning and follow-up faster and more intuitive. | | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 7.59 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.59 inches | | Product Height:
| 1.39 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.05 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.6 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.15 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 40 reviews |
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| Windows Vista / Windows 7 / Windows XP | | Media:
| CD-ROM | | Item Quantity:
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44 of 47 found the following review helpful:
 Good Product, great support.Jan 30, 2008
By Spam Hater
I have had several versions of Business Plan Pro over the years, and have loved it. The new user interface in Version 11 has made it much easier to keep my business plan upt to date. I especially like that it gives you an estimate on how long each of the steps should take. It makes the whole process less daunting.
I read one of the reviews about the Tech Support at Palo Alto Software, and that made me want to post this message. I have had to call tech support in the past and they have been really good at helping me troubleshoot the issues I have come up with. I had a problem similar to the other poster in an older version, where it looked like nothing was typing into the program, and all my menus were blank. Tech Support help me find that this issue was caused by a high contrast window setting on my PC, and not something in the software. Changing my desktop appearance resolved the issue.
17 of 17 found the following review helpful:
Great jump start for writing your business planApr 05, 2010
By Diana De Avila
"MS Gkygrl"
Having written several different business plans (and having used several different versions of Palo Alto's BP software) I have to say that Business Plan Pro has always been a great way to create business plans on the fly. It offers many different types of templates for different types of businesses. These templates are wonderful starting points for creating business plans. The Standard Edition of Business Plan Pro provides great flexibility for creating simple business plans that don't involve things like Quickbooks or Excel integration. For more complex financial tasks, you may have to spring for the Premier version.
I have recommended this software to friends and would definitely never fail to use it for any future business plans that I may have to create.
I love it. My only caution to the customer is that these templates are great jumping off points and not meant to be taken as-is. Writing a business plan is still a project ... but with the help of the BP software, it's a heck of a lot easier!
Great program for the money!
15 of 15 found the following review helpful:
Huge Time SaverJan 31, 2010
By Citizen John
Not too long ago, I wrote a 20-page business plan just from scratch. Maybe that was a good exercise but I'll never do it again. It was too time consuming. This software makes the job easy and dramatically reduces the time versus writing from scratch.
The time saved and professionalism in using this software even once will justify the investment. After all, one does not write a business plan without intending to invest money in startup costs.
Another advantage is the completeness of a work product from Business Plan Pro 15th edition. It's doubtful one would independently design a business plan that covers as much ground without this software.
I had always thought writing business plans was tedious and therefore many people simply have it in their heads. It's mush wiser to generate a bone fide business plan, but use a software tool to save an incredible number of hours. The interview process makes the job relatively painless although you still have to make decisions.
23 of 26 found the following review helpful:
 Don't buy it!Jul 09, 2010
By Scott Irving
The business knowledge side of the software seems pretty good, so I assume the creator was a good business planner. BUT they weren't good programmers. This software is garbage. Your better off doing a little research on the web, then use a word processor and Excel to create your business plan.
My complaints:
1. It's clunky. In particular it's really hard to get a handle on what is going on because the spreadsheets feed data to each other, but not in any clear manner.
2. It doesn't cut and paste cleanly with other software. For example I pasted in sections from a word document that included a trademark symbol. This software can't handle it.
3. The software functions are limited and buggy. I tried to do a find and replace to fix the trademark issue. They can find the pasted gibberish that was the trademark symbol, but can't paste their own trademark symbol. Manual correction was the only choice.
4. The online support is pretty limited. Heavy on installation info, although installation went pretty easily.
5. Some of their own tables don't fit the pages correctly. They wrap in a way to make them almost unreadable.
6. They have a task list which could have been a nice idea. However the implementation is such that it misses any additional sections or tables the wizard or the user inserts. Why? This really wouldn't have been that hard to do right.
7. When you delete a default section the task list didn't seem to figure this out either.
The good:
1. The tech support folks are pretty quick to respond. Unfortunately due to software limitations, there isn't much useful they can tell you.
2. The generated table of contents is automatic. Too bad the numbering of sections is screwed up. Each section restarts the numbering.
Glad I didn't pay list and didn't pay extra for the "premier version". I'm certainly not going to buy any other software from them.
17 of 19 found the following review helpful:
Necessity for Starting Any BusinessMay 13, 2008
By N. Britton
"Moon Goddess"
This product was recommended to me by someone that started their own business about 5 years ago! It is very easy to use! It allows you to move through and skip around to areas you'd like to work on at specific times.
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