PMComplete Pty Ltd News

PMComplete Pty Ltd Releases Version 8.00 of PM^Complete™

PM^Complete™ version 8.00 has now been released and installed at all Client sites.

Some of the major features included in this new version are:

• The Enterprise RoadMap
• Information Technology Management (IT) RoadMap
• Supply Chain Management (SCM) RoadMap
• Enterprise Project and Portfolio/Programme Management (EPPM) RoadMap
• Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) RoadMap
• Strategic Business Initiative Management Roadmap
• Delete Unreferenced Records static data function
• Substantial revisions to Performance Reviews RoadMap
• Disaster Recovery RoadMap
• You can now drill-down on the PM^Complete™ Sub-System Diagrams
• Supplier Relationship Management RoadMap
• Reminders for Occasional Users display added to Top Menu Frame icons
• Project's Scorecard report now re-named to "Project's Scorecard - Complete" (displays all sections)
• Project's Scorecard - Optional report (always displays Summary and Executive Summary and then only those sections where there is data)
• Action Items by Type/Date/Priority and Action Items Register reports now have an additional option to select All Incomplete plus a Closed Since Date
• General cleanup of how e-mail addresses are recorded, displayed and printed from Person screen and Candidate screen
• New Option and Preference to repeat Operation Buttons at the bottom of all maintenance screens
• Data Base Transaction Type Documentation report and Table Map maintenance have now been moved from the System Administration sub-system to Core sub-system
• Course Presenter's Information Sheet report (100174)
• Change Workgroup option to Subtract a Workgroup from your current list as well as displaying current Default Workgroup and Base Workgroup
• Template Survey Question Type maintenance screen (100175)
• Survey Questionnaire (Blank) report (100176)
• Skill Alignment with Business Objective (100178)
• Product Alignment with Business Objective (100179)
• Import Data now allows specifying if matching imported data can overwrite current data in PM^Complete™ as well as shows current Default Workgroup as well as strips of all leading and trailing spaces from all fields
• Record lists no longer paginate and are no longer banded, but have quick single-character filtering where appropriate
• Menu Frame narrowed, Top Menu Frame now grey to match browser, bread crums on 3-frame menus, "Add" Operation Button added to the bottom of record lists, tree view replaces button view, expansion of a project, a person or a company only displays those transaction types that have data for that project, person or company
• Quick Add selection on menu frame (set from Options and Preferences screen)
• Add and Change maintenance screen operation buttons replaced by Save operation button
• Maintenance Screen Opens with List Options and Preferences screen option now only opens with (if appropriate) current records and (if appropriate) with your records.  This also applies to drill-downs from Dashboards
• Add of a new project now automatically creates an Action Items Register and Project in Portfolio/Programme entries for the "All Projects", "All External Projects" (where appropriate), "All Internal Projects" (where appropriate), all portfolios/programmes where "OurProjectManager's" full surname occurs in the name, all portfolios/programmes where "ClientProjectManager's" full surname occurs in the name, all portfolios/programmes where "OurAccountManager's" full surname occurs in the name and all portfolios/programmes where "Client's" full name occurs in the name.  These all ONLY when entered at the time the project is added
• General cleanup of Training Administration Dashboard
• Revised PM^Complete™ demonstration screen to include hints about what data is available
• Improved handling of different screen sizes
• Fund maintenance screen (100181)
• Gate Approval Type (100182)
• Specific Debtors Invoice report now displays any text in the Debtors Invoice Header's Description - Long field
• Survey Evaluation Summary report (100183)
• Enter Survey Responses function (100184)
• Timesheet time allocated to a Service Call now updates the Service call time and cost when the timesheet is posted
• Out of Office Report now shows training presenters
• Option to not display Accounting Period selection date ranges
• Option to remember Workgroup settings across logouts and logins
• Billability and Utilisation report no longer shows cost and charge-out amounts.  It now has section breaks for ourganisation unit and company
• Changes to line item maintenance displays to always make 2 lines but make narrow width
• Ability to enter comments on timesheets that are imported
• General improvements to record selection criteria for Forthcoming Activities report
• HelpDesk Role-Based RoadMap
• Timesheet list now shows WIP (to see if completed) and Approved Date (to see if approved waiting on posting)
• Project Manager Role-Based RoadMap
• Courses can now have split dates (eg, 2 days then a 2-week break back on the job and then a 1-day refresher).  Split courses are linked and all dates are displayed on reports and drop-down lists
• Course Planning Schedule by Presenter now allows date selection to span multiple months
• Course Planning Schedule by Venue now allows date selection to span multiple months
• Course Planning Schedule by Presenter now shows all schedulable people (ie, Presenters) and can be used to assign courses
• Timesheets now allow either Start Time/End Time OR Elapsed Hours to be recorded
• General improvements to Document Repository report and attachment list formatting
• The Report Menu functionality has now been subsumed into the Top Frame toolbar menu
• Ability to specify a RoadMap as a Dashboard
• Course Participant Certificates (Attendance) report (100173)
• Addition of Workgroup to Course Schedule/Class maintenance screen
• Addition of both Top Company logo and Client Company logo to all education and training reports destined for Client consumption
• Addition of the concept of a Region to Location and Property (specified by a special Type) and the ability to specify a Region OR a Location on all location-based reports (including sending e-mails and document repository searching)
• Addition of Senior Executive Scorecard
• Addition of address fields to Facility maintenance screen
• Changed Travel maintenance screen to allow recording of return booking on 1 screen
• Abilty to specify Only Owned/My security on Menu in User Group maintenance screen for all table records
• Ability to drill-down to Person on Task maintenance screen from Project's Gantt chart
• Assistance (Help) Available in PM^Complete™ RoadMap
• Improved migration procedure that displays a "site being upgraded" message
• Re-work of Add a Business Card function
• Role-Based RoadMaps for Librarian, Meeting Secretary/Scribe, Seminar and Exhibition Organiser, Travel Booker and Training Presenter
• Ability to set a field's value equal to a constant during an Import Data
• Ability to transliterate a field's value during an Import Data
• Course Participants/Enrolments Attendance Register now prints 5 spare slots at the end to allow for late changes to the Course Participants/Enrolments
• Options and Preferences now allows System User to set own Initial Login Workgroup
• Mine functionality added to all menus for projects, companies and courses
• Business Improvement Initiative re-named to Strategic Business Initiative
• Project Management RoadMap
• Added Person on Project Task to Forthcoming Activities report
• Added Forthcoming Activities to Team Member Dashboard
• Added Reviews to Project Dashboard
• Added Revenues status to Project's Status Summary report
• Support for multiple instances of the PM^Complete™ data base on the one SQL Server™ server (for multiple sites as well as multiple versions)
• Added Course on Document Repository selection criteria
• Changed Top Frame Menu to have icons instead of words and re-named it "PMComplete™ Toolbar"
• Project Life Cycle Phase Support RoadMap
• Course Schedule/Class by Venue report (100170)
• Course Planning Schedule by Presenter report (100171)
• Course Planning Schedule by Venue report (100172)
• Addition of Rolling Forward periods to all Period/Date Rate selection screens
• Addition of Company News to PMComplete Pty Ltd web site
• Addition of "Suggested Venues" button and Suggested Presenters button to Course Schedule/Class maintenance screen

Click here for full details of Release 8.00 inclusions.