The latest version of TeamDynamix’ project and portfolio management software provides higher education customers with stronger security and greater flexibility in managing project teams and providing access to project data. Version 7.2, which was released to customers this week, includes more than 50 new features, twenty percent of which were driven directly by the TeamDynamix Advisory Council (TAC), the company’s self-governing advisory committee comprised of Higher Education IT leadership.
TeamDynamix 7.2 includes a number of new features that build upon the integrated ticketing systems, social collaboration feed, plan management and workflow capabilities. Many of the following new features were requested by current customers or members of the TAC:
- Quickly convert a ticket to a project or project request (requested by BYUi)
- Build out project plans and set stakeholders with project requests (requested by Carnegie Mellon)
- Set organization-wide Days Off to accurately plan resource capacity (requested by UTSA)
- Estimate time on tasks by days/weeks and choose a custom completion date for tasks (requested by McGill)
- Track time at the project level (requested by UCM)
- Updated Briefcase allows users to drag and drop files from desktop or folder directly into TeamDynamix briefcase.
- Reply-by-email to all notifications to easily add a comment on a project, request, issue, file, task, ticket or contact
TeamDynamix version 7.2 also includes multiple integration points that
improves security and makes it easier and faster to authenticate users, manage
tickets and provide users access to the project information they need. Among
the included integration points are the
following:
- Built in
providers for users of Microsoft’s Active Directory or Lightweight Directory
Access Protocols. TeamDynamix users can be quickly and easily configured to
use a different authentication provider allowing much greater flexibility in
the authentication model for both SaaS and installed customers.
- User
Administration Web Services: Provides the ability to automate the creation,
activation and deactivation of users from outside of TeamDynamix through web
service APIs.
- Custom
Ticket Contact Lookup: Allows the contact lookup to use a custom-developed
page that could query a database or an LDAP server to display a list of
choices, and then programmatically set the contact name and email, and several
other fields on the ticket creation page, including custom attributes, based on
the user's selection.
An overview video of the major features in the 7.2 release is available in the Videos section of Community, as well as full release notes available for download.