Maconomy releases People Planner 3.0

The Danish ERP provider Maconomy has just released the latest version of its successful resource management solution People Planner to the market. The major novelty in this People Planner version is that it is fully integrated to Microsoft Outlook.

People Planner is a popular product with Maconomy’s clients, all of which are part of the Professional Services sector where the focus is on projects and thus on optimal project and resource planning. From the outset the People Planner has been centered on providing clients with a simple and efficient overview of the capacity of their business as well as employee skills and workloads.

Only few resource management solutions exist in the market and even fewer of these can be combined with the other processes of the business. Accordingly, People Planner has enjoyed widepread success as this solution integrates three significant processes: project, resource and employee planning.

With People Planner 3.0 Maconomy now offers full integration to Microsoft Outlook. This means that client meetings and tasks assigned by an employee in his Microsoft Outlook calendar will automatically be synchronised with People Planner. This enables project managers, department managers and executives to get an up-to-date overview of all company resources in People Planner. Similarly, when a project manager or resource planner assigns an employee to a project or to other tasks in People Planner, the assignment will automatically be added to the employee’s Microsoft Outlook calendar.

“We are proud of the success that People Planner enjoys among our clients and we are delighted to show version 3.0 to the market as it is the result of close collaboration with a number of key clients. The new People Planner allows organisations to make it easy for their employees to manage their workday in Microsoft Outlook while giving them a full overview of their resource needs up to one year ahead. This means that businesses can utilise their resources ideally and a better utilisation rate will have a quick and positive impact on the bottom line,” says CEO Hugo Dorph, Maconomy.