Zoho released Zoho Projects 2.0

With this release, Zoho has integrated Zoho Wiki with Zoho Projects. Besides, they have added a Twitter like status update into the app and integrated the Zoho chat feature so that team members can interact in real time. But, what makes Zoho Projects 2.0 different from other online project management apps is its tighter integration with Zoho Office Suite. Now companies could offer their project teams a comprehensive suite containing online project management tools, wikis, social tools and a complete office productivity suite. In fact, they can do this without the exorbitant price tag. Some of the features of Zoho Projects 2.0 are:

Project Planning

• Milestones, Tasks and Tasks Lists
• Priorities, completion, dependencies and ownership
• Import from Microsoft Project gives users the option of planning a project in Microsoft Project and then easily tracking and executing that project in Zoho Projects 2.0.

• Project Stream is a visual representation that lets users see the latest activities pertaining to their project.
• User Status provides a Twitter-like interface where users can securely publish their latest update to their entire team
• Shared Project Calendar keeps everyone appraised of upcoming deadlines and meetings
• Centralized file sharing with multiple folders, tags, search and versioning
• Integration with the award winning Zoho Office - allows users to create/edit/view documents using just their browser
• Discussions - interactive forums provide a space where everyone can be part of a long-term conversation.
• Project Wiki lets users maintain all the project-related content in a centralized place where other project members can contribute easily.
• Group chat and "always on" chat room give users a single place where they can go to quickly discuss issues. Multiple chat rooms can be opened to discuss different issues.

• The Project Dashboard offers a quick at-a-glance view of fthe upcoming tasks, milestones, meetings and anything else happening around the project.
• Multiple reports allows the project manager and the team visually evaluate the progress against the plan
• For those teams with external customers, the Timesheet makes it easy to log and track who has spent how much time doing what. In addition, integration with Zoho Invoice makes it easy to create, send and track invoices.