Online Project Management Software ZilicusPM6.2 Launched | Better Collaboration

The leading provider of cloud based project collaboration tool – Zilicus, launched latest version online project management software ZilicusPM 6.2 with improved collaboration and effective project portfolio management.

Houston, TX, March, 26^th 2013 – Zilicus, the provider of award winning project management software, announced release of its latest version ZilicusPM 6.2.

“This is the third release of ZilicusPM version in a row, that we have done in this quarter and the year 2013. We are working toward releasing major capabilities; however in order to provide justified feature requests and other enhancement requests by our customers, we have been releasing minor versions at regular intervals. Thus aligning ZilicusPM product features to match with customer’s expectations.

ZilicusPM 6.2, the latest version of project management software, promises better collaboration among team members & customers; improves resource tracking while assigning tasks and gives you better visibility while managing project portfolio”, said Dhan, Co-founder of Zilicus.

Here is brief information about the features introduced in this version

Resource Load Check

Before you assign project tasks to your team members, you can check how far a resource is occupied at a given time. Now this ‘what-if’ way of knowing resource load has been enhanced to show you daywise load for the duration across all projects. It will certainly help you in making an informed decision.

Project Resource Load – What-if Check

Project Portfolio Tracking & Management

While initiating new projects, you can specify which portfolio a given project belongs to, say – New Product Development, Marketing, Engineering, Online-Marketing, etc. You can track these projects belonging to specific portfolio using ZilicusPM.

A portfolio level filtering for – Portfolio Status Report as well as Project Variance Report, timesheet reports, Project Portfolio Gantt Chart, etc has been introduced in this version. Thus you can view reports only for those project(s) which you would like to view.

Project Portfolio Management – Reports

Enhanced Collaboration with Customers

Currently ZilicusPM lets you engage with your customer. Your customers can be invited to the projects you are managing. Now ZilicusPM has enhanced customer collaboration further and you will be able to assign tasks to your customer users along with your project team members.

There are other enhancements that are also introduced in this release like – you can

• Track Project Schedule by Printing Gantt Chart (or save as PDF) and Export Project Schedule to Excel
• Export Risk Register to Excel/spreadsheet – thus you can save all important risk data like custom fields, probability, impact, response, contingency plan and mitigation plan for offline or compliance submission purpose.
• Task Collaboration – Get real time notification of task comments added by team members by setting email preferences
• Resource Timesheet Tracking – you can filter timesheet reports for date range, projects, and resources.

For details of other features please visit this page.

The way forward –

In next quarter, the next release of online project management software ZilicusPM will introduce improved project planning, external resource tracking & management and other features. Subsequently the major version of ZilicusPM will introduce interface support for multiple languages like French, Spanish and German among others, it will also support agile methodology along with public APIs.

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