What Rillsoft Project 9.0 brings
Rillsoft Project 9.0 and the Rillsoft Integration Server 9 extend the project management software with multi-user work, a differentiated capacity view, dynamic workforce planning, secure LDAPs authentication and numerous GUI improvements. The release targets mid-sized companies with several parallel projects and a shared resource pool.
Release highlights
- Multi-user work – split projects along subprojects and merge back into a Summary Project
- Skill-based capacity planning – percentage per role and across the pool, two values for shortage and coverage
- Dynamic effort distribution – minimize activity duration despite non-working days
- Portfolio overview – redesigned GUI, Excel-like row overview, free-text filter
- Project customers – dedicated tab in the resource pool, evaluation in portfolio properties
- Security and compliance – LDAPs as default, vacation planning with group calendars
New features in Rillsoft Project 9.0
- Shift planning – shift-based employee scheduling with Rillsoft Project
- Distribute personnel effort dynamically – split effort automatically across several employees with the same qualification
- Percentage by professional role – utilization per qualification and across the resource pool
- Two-value resource utilization – shortage and coverage separated per time unit
- Free-text filter for activities, resources and portfolio – search by keyword or combination
- Update project, portfolio and resource pool – refresh read-only opened projects to the current state
- Milestones in personnel view and collapsed subprojects – deadlines visible beyond the Gantt chart
- Project customers in resource pool and portfolio – maintain clients as master data, group projects by customer
- Usability improved – GUI – portfolio, row overview, last used directory
New in Rillsoft Integration Server 9.0
- Summary Project and multi-user work – split project, create Summary Project, merge later
- Vacation planning group calendar – team transparency for vacation dates, multiple group memberships
- LDAPs as default – encrypted authentication against the Windows domain via SSL/TLS
Who Rillsoft Project 9.0 is built for
- Mid-sized industrial companies with 20 to 200 employees and several parallel projects
- Project managers, resource owners and PMOs that want to identify bottlenecks before execution
- Teams in multi-user mode via Rillsoft Integration Server or Rillsoft Cloud
- Companies with data protection and compliance requirements (GDPR, secure authentication)
Related to features and solutions
- Rillsoft Project – Windows desktop client for project and resource planning
- Rillsoft Integration Server – on-premise server for multi-user mode
- Rillsoft Cloud – hosted variant for distributed teams
- Capacity planning software – bottlenecks and free capacity across projects