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When a change happens to an important business process, you need to be informed in time. Though SharePoint alerts may be enough for some cases, Virto Alerts and Reminders app offers a wider range of features both for SharePoint and Microsoft Teams users. Receive email notifications according to an adjusted schedule, track projects and task changes, define recipients list, customize email body as you wish and save templates, and send alerts to instant messengers — this is only a short part of the whole features list. ...

Learn more about improving the efficiency of your marketing department with an innovative Integrated Marketing calendar from VirtoSoftware. When everything is right, praise the sales, when everything goes wrong, blame the marketing. An efficient marketing department is an organized gathering of disorganized people. They produce a lot of value but have innate problems with sharing the information and reporting of any kind. Don’t blame these people, their job is to be creative. ...

Imagine a huge IT company rapidly transferring all business online. All business, all the business units. Including all those who did not work from home before. I was looking at such a company from a rather close distance and I recall people trying to set the meetings in WebEx, Zoom, Skype, and god knows what else simultaneously. While having Teams as a corporate communication platform. I have nothing bad to say about the WebEx, but here goes the first rule of remote work. ...

Introduction Have you ever found your hardworking team struggling to meet expectations, leaving everyone feeling burnt out and frustrated? Despite various attempts to improve, you still face missed deadlines and dissatisfied clients. Modern pace of decision-making demands effective productivity tools, and among them, kanban boards have established itself as a top solution. With the number of Microsoft Teams users steadily increasing worldwide, it’s essential to recognize that kanban, along with calendar and Gantt charts, stands out as one of the most convenient ways to skyrocket efficiency. ...

Virto SharePoint Calendar for Office 365 displays multiple categories from Outlook and has the option to select data storage location, get attachment support, and option to copy a data source. Displaying multiple categories You can select multiple categories for an Outlook event and display their color markers on an event in the Virto Office 365 Calendar. Category filters use the “OR” operator. This means if you select in category legend 2 categories, all events containing at least one of these categories will be displayed. ...

Virto Kanban Board for SharePoint 2019/2016/2013 comes with labels feature, charts upgrade, task and board history, and other features. Virto Kanban Board for SharePoint 2019/2016/2013 comes with labels feature, charts upgrade, task and board history, and other features. Virto SharePoint Kanban Board has localization’s upgrades. Now, Kanban localization language is taken from a user profile. And we’ve added russian localization. We’ve made an unsubscribe link available in mail body of comments watcher. ...

Virtosoftware contributes to the global fight with coronavirus and helps companies to stay efficient while working remotely. That’s why, starting from 23rd of March 2020 VirtoSoftware offers an unprecedented 99% discount for the 6-month Virto Kanban Board for Office 365 license. ​The threats and challenges posed by the Covid-19 coronavirus are global and extreme. Companies all over the world are transferring their employees to remote work from homes and adapt business processes correspondingly to maintain their business KPIs. This puts the correct work organization and employee remote work management at the forefron​t of 2020 business challenges. VirtoSoftware is also heavily based on the remote workforce. Successfully delivering software solutions for Fortune 500 customers for the past 10 years, VirtoSoftware uses effective remote project management solution and resources control web part - Virto Kanban Board for Office 365. Based on the board decision the company wants to contribute to the global fight with coronavirus and offer assistance to companies that faced with new challenges and want to maintain their business processes efficiency in the remote mode. Starting from 23rd of March 2020 VirtoSoftware offers an unprecedented 99% discount for the 6-month Virto Kanban Board for Office 365 license.​ Your Coupon Code to get the discount: NoCovid-19. Virto Kanban Board is already used by thousands of companies around the world and is one of the fastest growing project management solutions for SharePoint and Office 365 environments. The offer is valid until April 30th, 2020. ​"These new measures from VirtoSoftware will allow businesses to maintain their processes during the pandemic and organize remote workforce in SharePoint. Our team puts these 2 cents in the global war with Covid-19," said Dmitry Leytner, CEO of VirtoSoftware. By receiving the 99% discount from VirtoSoftware you authorize possible joint PR activities that may include a publication of a case study, mentioning of your company in the press release, during online or onsite event, etc.

Every project manager values the specialized project management software. For the project managers, this software is a science, an art, an ambassador of His Majesty Control. And every project manager is in an under-cover resistance with the rest of the company. Because it’s not just the project manager. To orchestrate, you need a chorus. In this chorus, every player has to be equipped with the right tool and the notes. Unfortunately, for many parties, the science and art of project management is too exhausting. So to make your team play you need to find something very simple, something everyone can use. Let’s imagine your company uses any version of SharePoint or SharePoint Online as a communication platform, and you use one of the most common project management tools: Microsoft Project. It’s something you will orchestrate with. For the rest, you have Virto Kanban Board. Or I’d rather say Virto Kanban boardS as you can have as many boards to your SharePoint list as you need. This is the tool for your team, your chorus. Your team will update the Virto Kanban boards. Kanban boards will store the information in the SharePoint list. And here goes the magic. You open your SharePoint lists with Microsoft Project Pro and see all the updated statuses and the changes to your project. All synced, all set. Here is what Virto Kanban can help your team do. For your resource managers, team leads, you can have a separate board where they assign a specific team member to a specific task, across all projects the company run. They can also use analytics to view the reporting, filter tasks per person, see statuses, etc. An executor, a team member can see a board of the project they participate in and understand the value of the task they execute. A tip: you can allow users to only edit their tasks. They can also see their tasks only. Also, your team doesn’t have to track the changes manually. Flexible notifications for the task changes will let you know when critical events happen. Download the Office 365 Kanban and try all new features in a free trial version. ...

We’ve added an ability to change data storage location (default is West US) on Virto Kanban Board. We are going to add the same feature for Virto Calendar and Virto Alerts apps. Download the Office 365 Kanban and try all new features in a free trial version. Related Products: Office 365 Kanban

Virto Kanban Board for Office 365 comes with performance optimization, labels feature, charts upgrade, tasks cloning, swimlanes sorting, task and board history, custom choice values fill-in, and image preview on task body. Labels SharePoint Kanban Board labels are actually color-coded tags on kanban cards. Label values are taken from a custom multichoice column added to your Kanban list. You have to select this column in Kanban Settings > Cards Setup > Labels. ...

Virto Kanban Board for SharePoint On-Premises was updated with a scroll for columns, interactive search feature, swimlanes sorting, a user mentioning in comments, image preview on task, and tickets cloning. Scroll for columns Your work with Virto SharePoint Kanban columns is even more comfortable now. If a column contains many tasks, its length will be reduced and a scroll appears when you hover the cursor. It’s possible to scroll the tasks in each column up and down. You can also scroll the whole board using the scroll bar on the right or the mouse wheel with hovering between columns. This option can be disabled in board settings. ...

Virto Office 365 Workflow Activities were expanded with a copy/move folder action. This activity allows you to copy or move a folder (with or without subfolders) in a list or in a library (including the same list/library) on the specified site. If you need a specific Office 365 workflow activity and you haven’t found it in the Virto Workflow Automation App, you can send your request and we will fulfil it shortly (usually within one week).