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Hiding Conversations

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Previously in PPO when conversations were activated for an entity the conversation pane was shown on all view and edit pages for that entity. We’ve now enhanced this to allow you to hide your conversation pane if you’re looking for more screen space or you’re not a regular user of conversations.

Improved Labels for your Donut Widgets

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Previously in PPO your donut widgets either had no label or you were able to show the % of each slice of the donut. We’ve improved this to all you to set the following for your Label Display for the donuts:

Recap of Our Mid-Year New Feature Product Webinar

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We just wrapped up our mid-year new feature product webinar, and it was packed with amazing insights from our experienced consultants and practical tips from one of our users in the infrastructure space gaining a huge amount of value from using PPO’s Boards in team engagements. If you missed it, don’t worry—we’ve got you covered! In this blog post, we’ll break down all the key points and highlights so you can catch up on everything we talked about. Let’s dive into the main takeaways and see what you can start applying right away!

Easily Copy your Customised Home Pages

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We are thrilled to unveil our latest enhancement: the Copy Home Page Tab feature designed to transform the way you work with your Customised Home Pages. Whether you’re a project manager executing projects for multiple departments or portfolios, a team member with dashboard views per project, or a PPO administrator duplicating views for multiple user groups, our new Copy Home Page Tab feature is here to help you discover a faster and easier way to copy your customised views.

Why you might not be ready to implement PPM software

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In this blog post, we’ll explore five signs that indicate your business might not be ready to implement PPM software. By identifying these signs early on, you can avoid potential pitfalls and ensure that your transition to PPM software is smooth and successful.

Project Portfolio Office Scoops Up Industry Award

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We’re bursting with excitement, and we just couldn’t wait to share the news with you all! Brace yourselves, because we’ve clinched one of Intelligent ICT’s prestigious Channel category awards. The Intelligent ICT Awards celebrate the best of the IT Industry in Africa and highlights the many diverse and innovative ICT implementation projects taking place within the various vertical and technology areas.

Coming Soon – Multiple Select Custom Lists…

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This highly anticipated feature will revolutionise the way you interact with your custom lists. No longer bound by the constraints of single-item selection, you will be able to effortlessly choose multiple items from a single custom list in one go.

Introducing color coded styling for upcoming and overdue dates

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We’re thrilled to announce our latest product feature which allows you to apply Color Styling to date fields to highlight whether an item is overdue or due within the next 7 days! This new feature brings visual clarity and efficiency to your project planning and tracking.

Digitising Project Outputs

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While some Project Portfolio Management (PPM) tools automate some of the required project and portfolio status report, when we developed PPO we automated a number of the key project management documents that an organisation would mandate their project managers to complete.