Early Preview of Online Project Management Software: ZilicusPM 8.2

Zilicus, cloud based solution collaboration provider of the best project portfolio management software – ZilicusPM, will be releasing new and enhanced version ZilicusPM 8.2.

Here is a preview of the minor version ZilicusPM 8.2 being released soon. The latest version will offer many enhancements and new features to effectively manage and track portfolio of projects, easier to use project template at signup, pre-dated meeting, additional reports for effective tracking of expenses and timesheet.

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• Project Portfolio Management

Enhancements 

• Custom field for task
• Special access to all project for users with role as Administrator, Portfolio Manager
• Creating minutes of meeting & action item for pre-dated meeting
• Attaching documents to discussion posts
• Task list report showing tasks with un-assigned resource
• Emails to project managers when resource leave is approved
• Timesheet report grouped by customers
• Expense report (exportable to PDF) for submitted, approved & non-submitted entries (to include images of receipts)

Project Portfolio Management Software – ZilicusPM

Organizations managing portfolio of projects will now be able to define, effectively track and manage project portfolio using ZilicusPM.

One can also set strategic objectives, goals of portfolio and track parameters of portfolio progress in terms of schedule, cost to check alignment with strategic goals and objects.

Project Portfolio-Listing

Portfolio-Project-Summary

Custom fields for task

Just like issues, projects, risks, project managers can now set values for tasks using custom fields. 

Custom-Field-for-Project-Task

These custom fields for task can also be tracked through custom reports.

All project access for Administrators & portfolio managers

ZilicusPM lets you define special access for users with roles as Administrators and Portfolio Manager to access all projects in a given organization. This acess is almost similar to the one available CEO of company (project organization hierarchy).

All-Projects-Access-Portfolio-Managers

Creating minutes of meeting & action item for pre-dated meeting

The upcoming version will let you schedule a meeting for dates in the past. Few of our customers requested this functionality in order to create Minutes of Meeting (MoM) and track action items despite of the meeting being conducted in earlier date. In this case, email invite will not be sent to participants and meeting organizer will be able to create MoM& action items at the time of creating meeting.

Schedule-Pre-dated-Meeting

Attaching documents to discussion post

This was slightly missing piece to complete discussion board functionality – to allow users upload documents/ attach link to new discussion or responses.

Attach-Document-Links-to-Discussion-Forum

Task list report showing tasks with un-assigned resources

We have introduces another filter element to show project tasks without any resource assigned tho them. It will help project managers to quickly identify those tasks which are missed out- have not assigned any resource.

Task-List-Without-Resource-Assigned

Leave approval emails to project manager

ZilicusPM will send email to project manager(s) when a resource submits leave application and his/her reporting manager approves the same. The idea is to keep concerned project managers informed so that they can identify possible impact.

Additional New Reports

Additional reports have been introduced in this version to 

1. Track timesheet entries grouped by customers showing Resources > Project > Tasks > Comments > Hours

2. Expense reports for individual can be exported to PDF files (including image of receipts) available for ‘Un-submitted’, ‘Submitted’ and ‘Approved’ expense sheets.

There have been few bug fixes beside new features and enhancements.

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If you would like to manage projects effectively, ZilicusPM is the right solution; not just for you as project manager but also for your team members (simplicity), as well as executive management (dashboard, reports). Sign up for 30-days risk free trial  and experience simpler project planning, tracking with Gantt chart, resource capacity planning, budget and cost management, timesheet and expeses trackig, issue tracking, risk management, document management and lot more.

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