Highlights of New Features and Improvements

Task Plan – Schedule from end

A new option to set the end date of the project plan and work backwards to automatically calculate the start date of the plan.

Task Plan – Calculate percent complete

New option to calculate percentage complete for a task based on the planned effort compared to actual approved hours.

Task Plan – Display options

Additional display options to improve project visibility and make task management easier in the GANTT.

Custom Entities – Option to enable types and workflows

A system configuration option to enable types and workflows for custom entities allowing for business processes and variations in operations associated with custom entities.

User Interface – New Sciforma Themes

A new set of themes are available to introduce a common look and feel between Sciforma’s suite of applications and Vantage platform support.

Portfolio Analysis – Analysis tab views publishing to multiple login groups

Following the operations of My Work, Project, and Insights, users can publish Portfolio Analysis views to multiple login groups.

Enhanced Forecast – Data load demand for multiple forecasts

A new data load is available on the Search pane to bulk load and data load demand related to multiple projects and forecasts at the same time.

Project Finance Tab – Benefits available for analysis

The inclusion of benefits on the Finance tab allows companies to evaluate and perform analytics on project related benefits.

Project Finance Tab – Extended period view to 60 periods

Additional support for more period selections is available on the Finance tab to further evaluate and review a larger number of periods related to the projects, up to 60 periods.

Preview – New custom field Cascading field data type

Introduction of a new Cascading field data type that allows for parent/child keywords for use as a drop-down selection for user to select any value in the hierarchy.

See attached Release Guide for more details.

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