Planzone New Release (December 6, 2012)

Our objective : that you achieve yours !

As we come to the end of 2012, we are pleased to introduce an updated release of Planzone. These improvements have come about as a direct result of our goal to simplify your work, that of your staff, and enable you to achieve your objectives.

You will find below a brief summary of the main developments in this new
update. For more a detailed review of the changes, we refer you to the longer version of this summary.

A new dashboard in My Overview and Project Overview

For this update, My Overview (formerly Home) and the Project Overview allow you to quickly and easily identify everything that you are involved with, ie: all aspects related to projects to which you belong. There are three panels we consider most important in these Overviews :

Highlighted in orange, the colour identifying any new changes throughout Planzone, this new feature notifies you of all aspects that concern you, such as :

• a to-do assigned to you.
• a discussion that someone has shared with you by e-mail.
• a document that you created that has changed.
• a member accepts your Planzone invitation.
• that your monthly bill has been paid, if you are the manager of the Planzone
• etc.

Indicated by a green heading, this panel shows the next steps of the project.

Indicated by a red heading, this panel allows you to prioritize your next activities.

An example of the new My Overview dashboard

When My Overview and Project Overview become a workspace

To simplify your work, we have introduced the concept of instant editing. Instant editing allows you to act directly from your overview page in My Overview or Project Overview, transforming them into real, active workspaces.

So, when you are in My Overview or Project Overview and you notice somthing that needs to be done, it can be attended to 'in situ', eg :

• change the deadline of an overdue to-do
• add comments on future to-dos
• close an overdue to-do
• add a comment on a discussion.
• change the dates of an event.
• etc.

Discussions and My Discussions centralized and organized

The integration of Discussions in Planzone is a result of our desire to:

• provide context to exchanges between collaborators on a project.
• enable collaborators to share their knowledge, opinions and explanations of all actions taken on a project.

Multi-threaded Discussions in Planzone.

Although we have given a Social Network-type structure to Discussions in Planzone, we want them to remain hierarchical and structured.

We were inspired by "multi-threaded" discussions to allow users to more easily contribute and follow the different levels of a Discussion.

Depending on the issues addressed and the number of people who join Discussions, they can quickly expand.
For this reason we have enabled Project Managers to remove and / or terminate discussions. The Project Manager can also define in the Planzone administration after how long an inactive discussion will be automatically closed (after 90 days of inactivity by default).

In summary, the My Schedule andProject Schedule dashboards are designed to help you manage the information of your projects by :

• identifying key elements quickly and easily.
• placing them in a context.
• making them directly modifiable according to a context.

The integration of a discussion thread adds a social aspect and increases participation in the collaborative workspace of Planzone.

Your Planzone Team.

support@planzone.com