New PLANTA Release: More Efficiency and Comfort in Project Management
| Translated by Julian Hammer
Facilitate the Visualization, Automation, and Management of Information
Efficient project management is a decisive competitive advantage for companies in digital transformation as well as for dispersed project teams. PLANTA’s focus lies on improving user experience and enabling time and cost savings. In our latest update (Release 39.5.20), we offer numerous new functions including Adaptive Cards, time-controlled events, Active Directory integration, portfolio charts, automatic synchronization in the hybrid system and extended tooltips.
Among other things, the current software update contains the following new features.
PLANTA project – Visual Subtleties for Optimized Project Management
PLANTA project provides project managers and teams with comprehensive functions for efficient planning, implementation, and monitoring of projects. Its particular strengths are resource management, the flexible use of various planning methods from agile to cascade, and reliable cost and progress monitoring.
Person Avatars and Digital Business Cards
Visualized information facilitates project planning. It is now possible to store avatars for resources. They are displayed on business cards when hovering over a person. This allows you to link names, images, and departments and assign resources in a more efficient way.
Project Images and Previews
Distinguishing projects made easy: images can now be assigned to projects. They become visible when hovering over the project name. The most important project information like planned and actual dates are displayed in a preview. This allows users to stay on top of things even if there are hundreds of projects in your system.
Adaptive Cards: Map Mini Workflows with Microsoft 365
E‑mail notifications can now be used even more efficiently. This saves time and allows for quick decision-making. Project manager and multi-project managers can carry out actions such as the adoption of forecasts or the approval of process phases using Adaptive Cards directly from an e‑mail. The best thing is that the customizer PLANTA add-on allows you to create individual Adaptive Cards.
Improved Controls: Stay on Top of Things
Distinguishing projects made easy: The interface in PLANTA project now provides even more information when hovering over certain elements. This way editable fields and available context menus can easily be identified.
Simplified Management of Employee Data
The data of employees who are defined in PLANTA as users or resources can now be managed centrally via an Active Directory and be imported to PLANTA project in an automated manner. This allows you to keep employee data in the project management system up-to-date and to reduce manual data maintenance to a minimum.
Nocturnal Replanning: Automation of Projects
Automation is the Key for Efficiency. With the new release, further time-controlled events are integrated in the system. Among other things, it is now possible to activate a nocturnal replanning for all projects based on the current data. This saves you time and costs.
Privacy Policy
Data protection is of top priority. This is why we have added a new function which allows you to pseudonymize personal data.
PLANTA portfolio – More Control, Better Decisions
PLANTA portfolio assists companies in strategic portfolio management. Project ideas can be planned systematically and risks and opportunities can be evaluated. This allows companies to have an eye on the contribution of individual projects or programs to the company’s success.
Structured Portfolio Management with New Views and Diagrams
The portfolio functions have received an upgrade and have been extended to facilitate prioritization and monitoring of planning objects.
What is entirely new are the charts in the portfolio dashboard which help you to identify critical projects at one glance as well as the portfolio Gantt chart which provides an overview of the dates of the portfolio projects. This way, projects cannot only be prioritized in a reliable manner but it also allows you to identify the position at which action needs to be taken.
Why Is This Project Relevant for the Portfolio? Tooltips Show You Why
Since this release, further information can be displayed to the user via tooltips. In the portfolio, this option is used to show information on the projects of the portfolio. On particular fields, users can now get information on existing dependencies between projects of the portfolio or read the explanation for why a project was marked as Mandatory for the portfolio. This spares you time-consuming research for information.
Portfolio Management to Go
Via the browser, users have access to their portfolios. Portfolios can now be monitored and controlled independent of location.
PLANTA as a Hybrid System – Automation for Efficient Collaboration
The PLANTA hybrid system is an integrated software solution for seamless synchronization of data and information between PLANTA project, PLANTA pulse, and Jira. It provides companies with the flexibility required to use agile and traditional planning methods in their projects.
With the new release, the exchange of data becomes even more effortless than before. Synchronization is now carried out automatically immediately after saving the changes without any additional effort. The new protocoling function allows you to track all changes and to better identify possible errors.
Positive User Experience
In its new release, PLANTA has optimized the user experience by means of numerous minor improvements and extensions: from the visual revision of PLANTA project via the extended functionality in PLANTA portfolio through to the seamless integration into the hybrid system. The way in which users visualize, automate, and control information has been enhanced substantially. PLANTA has always attached a lot of importance to take the requirements of its users into account when further developing of its software.
You can download the new software version in the Customer area of the website.
