Just two weeks after releasing Clarizen 2.5, a major release featuring time tracking, customer billing and other new features, the fully loaded version, Clarizen 2.5G, with the long awaited Clarizen Gantt Chart, is now live.

1. Gantt Chart View

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Clarizen 2.5 augments our existing project management solution with a turn-key solution for services organizations needing to also track hourly resources and bill the respective customers.

From now on you can use Clarizen from the initial point of planning and budgeting through executing, collaborating, tracking and finally billing customers, paying hourly resources and creating customizable reports.

With a single point solution to manage all these fundamental aspects of projects for professional services organizations, users no longer need to look outside for third party vendors rather it's all in ONE place.

Beyond timesheets and customer billing, Clarizen 2.5 includes additional powerful features such as: Super User providing edit and view permissions to all projects; Financial User giving access to financial data in the Clarizen organization; ‘Shortcuts' where users can have a work item (task, milestone, project) from one project impact a completely separate project without needing to bring them under one project and ‘ALAP' (As Late As Possible) allowing you to plan your project backwards from the Due Date so that you can factor how late you can start working on a project that.

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We are excited to announce that Clarizen Time Tracker along with many other new features will be made available very soon.

Even if the entire project team is in the same building, it's quite the challenge to manage the project. You can imagine how much more challenging it would be if the project team is scattered. The challenges of collaborating and sharing information is growing in magnitude as teams become more and more geographically and inter-company dispersed. For example, a Marketing project that involves external web site designers and PR teams, or a Professional Services project that includes dispersed teams and customer representatives, or an Engineering project that includes outsourced developers. All these projects require management of distributed project teams.

There is no doubt that businesses are dependent on their ability to deliver. However, it looks as if being able to meet deadlines is a matter of hit or miss. Most global companies are looking for ways to increase accountability. Without transparency and real time visibility there is no way to take decisions and being right or wrong is a matter of pure luck.

Clarizen 2.1 is out!

Highlights of this major release include:

• Full support of Firefox 2.X
• Email users can now also submit a Note with their progress update
• Fully loaded Reporting capabilities
• Advanced filtering across the different grids
• Budget calculations with hourly user rates
• Critical path indicator and Importance field
• Lead/Lag time enabled for dependencies

See below a detailed list of new and enhanced features along with related screenshots.

Every company is doing project management, however, the majority of companies are not using a PM tool to manage projects.

So, why are PM tools not working? I think there is one main reason- lack of team adoption.
The tools are designed for the individuals - not the team. However, teamwork is critical for projects to succeed. Clarizen's Project Team Automation solution is helping businesses be successful in managing their projects via team adoption.

As we close in on the final stretch of the release of Clarizen 2.1 next month (mid June), I am now able to share with you some more details as well as screenshots of some of the exciting new features and enhancements to be unveiled (...partial list).

1. Note Submission with Email Reporting
   Thus far, users submitting their progress via email were limited to sending only their progress. With 2.1 users will be able to include text which will appear as a new Note in the respective task and project.  
   
   
   
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Last week the entire Clarizen U.S. team flew with Avinoam, our CEO, to Las Vegas to launch our new marketing campaign called "Kiss Microsoft Project Goodbye" at the Software 2008 / Interop conference.

If I had to define in one sentence what is a good company I would say that a good company is one that can sense and respond whereas a bad company is one that does not respond well to changes. Advances in technology have made it easier for more people than ever from different corners of the world to collaborate and compete in a way that was not possible before. Our business environment has become much more dynamic and demanding.

Let me illustrate this with an example:

When we are driving a car on a highway and drive 55 miles per hour we feel comfortable and safe. However, if we are in a hurry and drive 95 miles per hour we find ourselves much more alert and responsive to the road conditions and traffic around us. Taking this to the extreme, if we want to participate in a Formula 1 or NASCAR race, for most of us this would be impossible as we do not have the skills or the knowledge to drive so fast. Now, imagine your business is like in a Formula 1 car race and you do not have any choice but win this race. You need to have the right car, skills and knowledge in order to win. An enterprise 2.0 company is one that can win this race by gearing up on advanced technologies and methodologies. Hence, Clarizen. Clarizen helps companies execute their projects online with real time visibility and therefore allows them to respond better to changes.