Category: Product News

Looking for a project and portfolio management (PPM) tool that is truly configurable, flexible and won’t cost the earth? Look no further then, as the next installment of my “5 Reasons Why…” PM-related product overview series focuses on Project Portfolio Office (PPO). Designed by project managers to assist project teams within organizations of any size and across … Continue reading "5 Reasons Why Project Portfolio Office Should be Your Tool of Choice for Online Project Portfolio Management"

Like it or not, communication is the most important component within any project. The success of most projects, whether handled by a dedicated project team or virtual team, depends upon communication and collaboration. Communications affects project performance and, without well-established mechanisms, it is likely that the project will fail. Why is this? Executives make decisions … Continue reading "Customising e-mails for better collaboration"

Have you seen our newest enhancement? Of course, you have, it’s hard to miss! Our latest enhancement has added an additional 20 project data fields and an average of 15 more fields across other entities. Why is this good news? For those of you that don’t know what the fuss is about, data fields are … Continue reading "More data fields in PPO"

Previously at Project Portfolio Office (PPO), we followed a "tick-tock" approach for new releases. That is, we would have a customer facing release (the "tick") followed by a technical release (the "tock"). The customer facing releases were typically enhancement requests from our customers or internally generated enhancements that our users would "see", while the technical … Continue reading "PPO practices continuous deployment"

Project Portfolio Office aims to provide the best project management solution on the market. To do this, we make it a habit of listening closely to our users, taking note of the features they would like to see. And lately, we have been on a roll! If you haven’t heard about our new invoices in … Continue reading "PPO introduces improved security with single sign-on"

Project managers need to understand actual values for the time spent on projects (in terms of the original forecasts) when a project is coming to a close.  Project Portfolio Office’s (PPO) time entry functionality has already entrenched itself as a useable and valuable way for clients to report back on the planned and actual time … Continue reading "It’s time for PPO’s upgraded time entries functionality"

If you administer Project Portfolio Office (PPO) and are responsible for the managing of the subscriptions and processing invoices, you'll love our new feature “Invoices in PPO”! We noticed that many of you have been asking the same questions – “Can I get a copy of my monthly invoice?” “Can I access historical invoices?” “Can … Continue reading "Introducing enhanced subscription management"

Over recent months, alpha geeks across many businesses have been working away at replacing or upgrading the Microsoft Windows operating system of many personal computers. Due to the progression of technology and the increase in memory size, some computers have been upgraded from a 32-bit to a 64-bit version of Windows. Project Portfolio Office (PPO), … Continue reading "Who says that size doesn’t count?"

This version upgrade of PPO includes further benefits for all our clients!  Support for Google Maps in URL fields – PPO allows users to enter two coordinates (one for latitude and one for longitude) and then follow a calculated link to the defined location in Google Maps http://support.ppolive.com/entries/26745257) Document Link for Template Projects – When copying items from … Continue reading "Release – November 2013 Successfully Deployed!"

Project Portfolio Office has released an upgraded version which includes three items which will enhance your user experience in PPO. User & List Page Preference - The user and field list pages now remember sort order and criteria selected.  Previously it just defaulted back to the standard and filtering and sequencing which was selected was lost. … Continue reading "Release – September 2013!"