New LiquidPlanner release: Halloween treats from our team to yours
Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 2:39PM | Liz Pearce The team at LiquidPlanner has been hard at work designing, developing, and testing features for last night's release for the past nine weeks or so. Just in time for Halloween, we're debuting them with the hope that they'll make managing your projects in LiquidPlanner faster, easier, and more connected to the other applications you use every day.
Everyone on the product development team is vital to LiquidPlanner's continual evolution; here's a list of who's responsible for what this time around:
Jake has spent countless hours making our web-based UI seem even more like a desktop application. Now you can select multiple items at a time and move them around or perform various actions on them, making building and modifying your plan tons faster. Right-click now works in LiquidPlanner, too, so you can access many common actions without ever having to move your mouse. He's also made it easier to "watch" items, enhanced the virtual user feature, and worked on performance optimizations.
Adam is the one to thank for the ability to email tasks directly into LiquidPlanner from your email client. Have an email thread with lots of background information and attachments that need to be captured in LiquidPlanner? Modify the subject line to include the task name, owner, and estimate then send it to one of your custom LP "inboxes." All of the task information will be captured in your plan. Easy! He's also enhanced printing capabilities on the collaborate and analyze tab, worked to improve the import process, and made it easier to embed images.
Bryan is our scheduling engine master. He's been spending his time getting the scheduler house in order, focusing on everything from bug fixes to performance improvements.
Jason put new project templates in place and integrated outbound "update request" emails into LiquidPlanner. Need to ping a team member about an out-of-date task? You can now do so in just two clicks.
Susanna, our new test engineer, has worked her tail off making sure we get the cleanest code possible out to our users. All of us are extremely happy she's joined the team.
We look forward to your feedback on these new features. If you find them half as useful as we do, we'll have done our jobs.
Reader Comments (5)
This software just keeps getting better and better. The features were impressive to begin with and this added functionality served to make my life even easier!! You guys ROCK!!!!!!!
Thanks Coy - tell all your friends :)
We're REALLY excited about the ability select multiple items..I totally agree with Coy, it just gets better and better!
I think the current pricing is a bit too hard for the bigger companies. It would make more tempting to buy licenses if there was some kind of discount based on volume.
For example:
1-3 users: Free
4-9 users: $35 per user
10-49 users: $30 per user
50-199 users: $25 per user
200-1999 users: $20 per user
2000-4999 users: $15 per user
Over 5000 users: $10 per user
For a team of 12 people it would cost (3*0) + (6*35) + (3*30) = $300 per month. This would make it more tempting to buy more licenses.
Thanks for the comment. This is why we built the calculator so we could be as transparent as possible in pricing.
Using the calculator, a team of 12 is $315 a month, that's only a $15 difference vs. your example.
If somebody is looking at a larger size organization, the real way to go (and what almost everyone does) is opt for the annual discount. Again using the calculator, if you have 50 people on the annual plan you'll enjoy an effective rate = $23.50/user/mo which is even lower the the $25 you suggested.
If you have a large team, our friendly director of sales would be more than happy to help you with your evaluation and discuss pricing. Send email to sales@liquidplanner.com.