PlanMill launches next generation web-native PSA release 10

Press release September 29, 2006 - PlanMill Ltd, the leading provider of Online and On-Premise Professional Services Automation (PSA) solutions for service and project organizations, today announced the availability of its next generation PlanMill 10 product release. Built on the standard Java and XML platform, PlanMill 10 is immediately available for test drive (www.planmill.com) and Online and On-Premise deployment.

The new release helps especially customer-centric small and mid-sized organizations to increase profits through improving customer retention, resource utilization and enabling more efficient finance, portfolio and project management. For example the new flexible price list options and real-time pricing capability means faster invoicing cycles and increased visibility into earned revenue.

PlanMill 10 introduces several major elements that break new ground in Online and On-Premise PSA applications.

Key highlights of PlanMill 10 as follows:

Streamlined user experience: PlanMill's AJAX-powered user interface takes the technology beyond personal productivity and into functional product areas such as portfolio management, time reporting, graphing and scheduling.
Indicators: An easy way to manage your personal and team related key goals and metrics. PlanMill 10 includes a set of pre-build indicators, which can easily be modified, if needed.
Work Scheduler: A revolutionary spreadsheet-like way for resource management at daily, weekly and monthly levels. Automatic consolidation of ongoing work to give much more realistic view of remaining resource load across projects, persons & teams.
Campaigns: Easy to use E-mail campaign feature for improved communication.
Competences: Personnel competences can be managed in a comprehensive way. Reporting, resource search and pricing are all related to competence criteria and skill levels.
New reporting capabilities: 20+ new business reports cover new areas such as Earned Value and Earned Revenue Analysis. Besides PlanMill’s new Search Report technology allows project finance, resource availability and utilization analysis based on a large set of search criteria’s. New release consists of totally 85+ customer, portfolios, projects, resources, time, expenses and finances related business reports.
Personalization: Various new and easy to use personalization capabilities such as My Columns and My Settings (i.e. theme and currency) boost personal productivity.
Administrator: Provides full control of access levels, sessions, jobs, calendars, currencies and other system settings.
Language: English and German (new - availability 11/06) releases.
Web-native: 100% browser-centric. Support for both Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.
Open platform: 100% standard Java and XML enabled platform. Apache Tomcat and MS SQL Server 2005 enabled.
Faster deployment: Flexible options to choose such as PlanMill Online, if you would like to PlanMill host your information, or PlanMill On-Premise, if you prefer to manage PlanMill PSA on your own servers.

"Version 10 blows away the conventional wisdom that PSA applications are like ERP applications that can't meet the needs of dynamic businesses," said Thomas Hood, CEO of PlanMill. "With this release, PlanMill provides the streamlined functionality and fast deployments required by small and mid-sized organizations. As importantly, our advances in AJAX user interface design make PlanMill PSA by far the easiest to use and one of the most productive Web-native business applications."

Targeting especially a growth-oriented service and project-centric organizations such as Consultancies, IT Service Providers, System Integrators, ISV’s and VARs, we have high expectations for the new release as a growth driver for our company”, says Thomas Hood.

Additional information:
CEO Thomas Hood, PlanMill Ltd
Tel. 040-558 5138 or thomas.hood@planmill.com

PlanMill in brief
PlanMill Ltd is a leading provider of user-friendly, real-time Online and On-Premise PSA (Professional Services Automation) solutions. Browser-based PSA solutions by PlanMill help to improve the control of customer relationships, projects and business processes, which in turn improves the customer companies' productivity and profitability. PlanMill solutions have been deployed to more than 60 leading service companies and IT and R&D divisions of companies in more than 10 countries. Its customers include Digita, Fifth Element, Ilmarinen, Nordea, Raiffeisen Informatik, Raiffeisen Solution, Sofia Digital, Tieto-X and UNIQA. The company has established an authorized dealer network to Austria, Switzerland, and Germany. Additional information: www.planmill.com

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