This weekend we are releasing our March 2012 release. Here's a quick preview.

Heres a bit more information:

Ad-hoc Reporting: 

• includes project directory businesses and contacts. Ad-hoc reports may be filtered, grouped or sorted by business, discipline, contact and their job.
• includes the Location & Design Attributes custom field expansion.
• includes the Project Classification custom field expansion.
• apply sorting independent of grouping.

Location Master:

• location master: 200 custom fields including the addition of multi-select fields.
• project classification: 100 custom fields including the addition of multi-select fields.

Photo Library:

• upgrades user interface to eliminate pop-ups.
• upgrades user interface to increase usability on touch devices.
• upgrades user interface to integrate selection of thumbnails and view of detail photo onto single page.
• decreases page load times for photo library lists and photos.
• download all photos as single PDF document.
• upload photos to existing or new libraries via email.

Document Uploads Via Email:

• email single or multiple file attachments directly to project folders.
• upload of new versions of existing files with auto-matching

Photo Library Uploads Via Email

• email single or multiple photos directly to photo slideshows.
• create new photo slideshows via email photo attachments.
• support upload of embedded photos in email from iOS devices.

Email Archive and Discovery

• archive emails by project on any outgoing or incoming message.
• simply include one or more archive email address.
• capture the email thread as a single file with multiple versions.
• easily access all email threads within the document folder structure or fully-indexed search.
• protect email archives with flexible security.
• download entire email archive as a single ZIP file.

Various Updates

• IE9: photo library thumbnails now render
• Project Documents: user alerted when changing permissions and remove their own access
• Project Directory: v-card download now includes Country and Postal Code.

Argon Already?

Just 6 weeks after our last major release Chlorine,  we delivered Argon on Friday. Argon enables our customers to centrally track their Business Partners Diversity and Qualifications in a flexible and meaningful manner.  This flexibility means the standard configuration of fields can be renamed, extended and suppressed while security rights can be granularly assigned.

Standard Configuration

Diversity:

• Size
• Type
• Gender Classification
• Ethnicity
• Certifying Agency
• Certificate Number
• Certificate Issued
• Certificate Expiration
• NAICS Number
• DUNS Number
• Custom Text Fields
• Custom Date Fields
• Custom Pick List Fields
• Custom Multi Select Fields

Qualifications:

• Type
• Status
• Rating
• AIA Date
• Currency
• Bonding Cap
• Bonding Aggregate
• Average Volume
• Locale
• Custom Text Fields
• Custom Date Fields
• Custom Pick List Fields
• Custom Multi Select Fields 

Our Location Master Edition is a big differentiator.  It is included in each Edition we offer and glues everything together for our clients. By tying your projects back to a location our clients easily reference any relevant location data.  This straightforward approach models your portfolio of locations, reduces duplication, and increases accuracy.

Sometimes the simplest things are the most powerful:

One client was ecstatic: the days of digging through the file cabinets for random requests were over!  Everyone in the company instantly accesses accurate square footages by simply searching for that store location or running any number of user-created reports, leaving this group to focus on the more critical aspects of their job descriptions.

Another client couldn’t believe the amount stress caused by different departmental reports having different names for the different locations and projects.  The amount of time it took to simply coordinate location and project names was depressing.  And tedious.  Until they used site|folio, which allowed project name changes to immediately be reflected in reporting across all departments.  No more confusion.

These are just a few examples of how organizing your real estate processes around a portfolio of locations could help you take advantage of the simpler and powerful things site|folio has to offer. In the future we’ll outline Location Master a bit more, see how it can be adapted to your needs and how powerful it is paired up with Document Collaboration, Master Scheduling, Project Administration, Capital Budgeting, and Leasing.

In the meantime, let's keep making things simpler.

A site|folio client’s accounting department needed to produce a report comparing stores on a square footage basis - "NOW!".  Not a problem with site|folio’s attribute tracking capability, which easily centralizes detailed information on individual stores, and our easy to use ad-hoc report writer.   The real estate team was able to produce, in a couple of minutes, a portfolio view of all square footage, grouped by size, across their stores.  Nice!

How do I know this?  Because the client called to tell me.  A simple task that used to take hours now took minutes. This is the very best part of my job, listening to the success stories of the people we work with, learning about how site|folio turns potentially bad situations good. It makes me proud of our product and what we’re trying to accomplish.