Deskera Project Management – August Release

by Saurabh | Aug 31, 2011

We are pleased to announce the latest release of Deskera Project Management. The new release contains enhancements on Critical Path Analysis using PERT among other enhancements which would make your project management better, easier and faster.

Highlights of the new Deskera PM Release:

Critical Path Analysis & PERT-

Critical Path can be determined using PERT technique
The Critical Path could be displayed on the GANTT chart now. Critical tasks are highlighted in red while the green lines show the free time between tasks
Default duration differences could be configured at Company, Project or Task level for use in PERT
The percentage probability of project completion could be calculated based on PERT analysis
Overall project completion time can be calculated using PERT

Document Management-

Multiple documents could be selected for download and they would be downloaded as a zip file
If no documents are selected for download, a pop-up would be displayed providing the user the choice to download all documents at once

Import/Export-

“Work-week” details would not be imported while importing .mpp and .mpx files
Support has been included for importing MS Project 2010 .mpp files

Misc-

Any URLs in the calendar event descriptions now displayed in the Agenda View

Custom Columns-

Company level custom columns of the following types can be created now: Text Field, Number Field, Text Area, Date Field, Check box, Combo
As many as ten custom columns of each type could be created for a company

In addition, 10+ bugs which were reported since last release were fixed.

Please let us know your thoughts on the latest release. To know more about us, please visit Deskera.