Category: Product News

Exploring our Newest Feature: Automated Budget using Resource Allocations

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We get that for the project manager, understanding and managing project costs (including resource costs) is crucial for effective project planning and tracking. So today, we’re thrilled to introduce you to the automated workflow that will save you precious time and eliminate manual inputs for generating your resource budgets.

Introducing Interactivity to our Boards!

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We’ve now made using the board so much easier by providing you the ability to edit the data on the cards without having to go to a new page, and YES, you guessed it, drag & drop of the cards!

Clear related feed items with a single click

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You’re probably already familiar with how quickly your feed can fill up in PPO. Like when you’ve just returned from a long but well- deserved break or when you’ve already clicked the first notification and caught up on the related comments and replies. With our new “Mark All Related as Read ” feature, you can quickly reduce the items that are filling up your PPO feed.

Say Hello to the New Customisable Home Page

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After months of hard work, we’re delighted to unveil PPO’s customisable home page! Until now, all information on your Home Page was displayed in tables only. It’s time to say goodbye to lists and tables and hello to a new visualised view of your portfolio, project and project related items.

Recap of the Customisable Home Page Product Webinar

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In our final new feature webinar for 2023, the configurable home page, multiple filter selection and BI API enhancements were showcased. If you couldn’t make it to the live webinar, well, the good news is that we recorded the session, so you can still take advantage of everything we learned!

Dashboards Receive a Major Upgrade

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Today we have deployed the new PPO dashboards with an improved chart component which now includes new graph types (activity, gullet and gauge graphs) and support for drill down, click throughs, zoom and much much more…

Simplifying Task Imports and Supporting Mac & Google Sheet Users

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Over time however we saw more and more users moving away from complex scheduling tools like MSP and thus we allowed users to make use of an Excel template to create simple project plans and import this into PPO. Today we are releasing a new template for Google Sheet users and a dramatically simplified Excel template that can be used by both Window and Apple users in a much simpler way.