Online Project Management Tool ZilicusPM 6.2 Launched With Enhanced Collaboration & Portfolio Man

March 26, 2013 - PRLog -- 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 (http://www.zilicus.com), 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.

A quick overview video of ZilicusPM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faY56zBQzkk  



Here is brief information about the features introduced in this version

Resource Load Check

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

Project Portfolio Tracking & Management

While initiating new projects, project manager can specify which portfolio a given project belongs to, say – New Product Development, Marketing, Engineering, Online-Marketing, etc. Project manager 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, etc has been introduced in this version. Thus project manager and portfolio manager can view reports only for those project(s) which they would like to view using this project portfolio management software.

Enhanced Collaboration with Customers

Currently ZilicusPM lets its users to collaborate with their customer. Client users can be invited to the projects. Now ZilicusPM has enhanced customer collaboration further and project manager will be able to assign tasks to customer users along with its project team members.

There are other enhancements that are also introduced in this release like – users 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 users 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 – portfolio managers and project managers can filter timesheet reports for date range, projects, and resources.

The way forward -

In next quarter, the next release of 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.

About Zilicus
Zilicus Solutions is a technology company that offers cloud based collaboration software. It offers award winning online project management software ZilicusPM (http://www.zilicus.com/) – delivers the promise of project planning, tracking and collaboration to improve team performance. By actively involving employees with ZilicusPM and realizing gains in productivity, companies can meet strategic & organizational objectives. To sign up for 30-day free trial (https://projects.zilicus.com/Signup.jsp), view product information, or take a product tour (http://www.zilicus.com/tour/).