Release Notes
Release Notes – Release 9.0
New and Improved Features
- Super-fast performance and easy-to-learn user interface
- Significant performance and scalability improvements
- Enhanced UI configurability including page, feature, and field level rights-based visibility and edit control
- Personalized views and flexible filtering throughout the system
- Improved “Freeze Panes” ability on all grid views
- Real-time built-in dashboards for projects, resources, and assignments
- All new Asset Assignment feature to track Asset utilization by projects
- Plan project labor, assets, and non-labor costs from a single workspace
- Grid and Detail Mode UI for projects and resources enables easy data entry at the summary or detail level
- Streamlined resource and project requests to improve workflows
- Pending (Open) requests are now visible on the labor assignments page for approval or rejection
- Reduce unused capacity with candidate project assignment recommendations
- All new skill matrix shows skills and proficiencies by resource
- Enhanced partitioning capability throughout the system, including OBS nodes and all lists
- Improved collaboration, notification, and workflow through redesigned HOME screen
- Configurable project intake and status forms to support project workflow process
- Enhanced Audit features with limited UNDO capability: Audit & restore forecast and baseline data
- Ability for administrators to see and manage saved baselines
- Direct import/export from/to native Microsoft® Excel
- Robust scenario and waterline planning for both labor and financial forecasting
- Redesigned and simplified ability to set FTE and financial targets for nodes on the OBS
- Improved Events capabilities to better support all event types
- Easily build and export pivot tables directly in ResourceFirst for real-time reporting
- Multinational support for cost centers, rates, and currencies
- Detailed project, phase & milestone planning, including popular task management integration (Microsoft® Project, Smartsheet® & Jira®)
- Enhanced AI Reporting (via QlikSense)
Changes from Release 8.5
