Archives: March 2010

New in Doolphy: Roles and Permissions

Published on by Rafa Lombardo

This week, Doolphy users have reasons to feel excited about the new developments that we’re bringing to the application. As you know, we are in beta version and working in creating an application to satisfy most of your needs. To this end, we are improving existing features and also working on new ones.

Today, we’re launching a freshly baked feature that is already available in the application. It is the system of roles and permissions for the users in your team.

What are roles and permissions? How can they help us?

A rol is a set of permissions on specific areas and functionalities of Doolphy which can be configured to define what each user can do in the application.

Thanks to this system you can create a set with a number of different roles that later can be assigned to users depending on the work that they have to carry out.

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Benefits of the SaaS Project Management Software

Published on by Rafa Lombardo

So far, we have written about our new application and about the model in which it is based. However, we haven’t touched the reason why it is important for a company to have a tool to manage its projects. Given the current situation of all companies, we all find the necessity of working harder, faster and in several projects at the same time, optimizing expenses in order to obtain the best profitability possible. To achieve this goal the best movement is to learn how to organize our resources and employee time to maximize the functionality of our company. This is not easy though. When a company deals with several projects at the same time, and is possibly composed by a multidisciplinary or geographically distributed team, communication issues may arise. E-mail, telephone, meetings can be used to improve the situation but they aren’t necessarily the best possible way.

This issue is addressed by a number of software solutions such as video conferences, instant messaging, synchronization tools, social networks, etc. However today we want to comment on a tool that is gaining a lot of traction lately: the project management software on demand.

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