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Premier Open Source Services Automation Software v1.5 Released - Gains New Features
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
4th of DECEMBER, 2008
Cybersource and the development community behind the allocPSA project, are proud to release a major new version of the premier open source Professional Services Automation (PSA) solution. Designed to assist services-based businesses to manage people, projects and billing, allocPSA is available for download worldwide, free of charge, under the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL).
allocPSA is a complete, organisation-wide business solution that integrates all practice groups and functions within a professional services company, into a single computer system. allocPSA consists of a set of tightly-integrated software modules for business areas such as:
- resource planning,
- project management,
- time and expenses,
- integration with existing invoicing,
- book-keeping and payroll systems,
- issue tracking,
- while-you-were-out messages,
- company-wide announcements,
- reminders,
- knowledge management,
- collaboration,
- services supply chain,
- human resources and staff skilling and
- management of cost-centres.
allocPSA 1.5, just released to Sourceforge.net, offers the following new or improved features:
- Added Product and Sales module
- Extrapolated figures that are used in the project spend. Will help understand project budgets.
- Added dynamic/instant editing interfaces to projects and tasks.
- Added better support for Pre-paid Projects functionality using a maxAmount field.
- Moved codebase over to PHP5
- Added further SOAP hooks with a generic get_list() method, which allows web services clients to fetch lists of: clients, comments, transactions, invoices, people, projects, products, tasks and time sheets.
- Support for double entry transactions
- Many performance enhancements, pages should load faster and use less server-side resources.
- Added more end-user allocPSA email customisations, including setting a default header and footer, setting email subject lines etc.
- Added functionality to allow task editing en-masse.
- Project import/export facility for GNOME Planner (XML) and CSV
- Added ability to leave comments/emails with attachments to time sheets.
- Plus another 140 fixes/changes.
"allocPSA demonstrates that software designed and developed by Australians can have world-wide appeal, thanks in large part to the marketing and distribution methodologies made possible by open source software. To date, nearly 10,000 organisations have investigated or deployed allocPSA, and with each new release, we're getting closer to our goal of producing the best professional services software suite on the market." stated Con Zymaris, CEO of Cybersource Pty. Ltd, and allocPSA project manager.
Download a full copy of allocPSA, for free, from:
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About Cybersource Pty. Ltd.
Cybersource, founded in early 1991, is the second longest running open
source solutions company in the world. We have been demonstrating the
better value, security and robustness of open source technologies to
our clients since then. We also produce products like:
- The Small Business Linux Server: the best value small business server on the market and 75% less expensive than the Microsoft alternative.
- Datasafe: Stores copies of all your documents. Easy and direct access to all past revisions.
- Cybersource TrimClient; All the advantages of a thin-client with none of the disadvantages.