# Intro to Aerion 2.0
Aerion 2.0 is a major update. If you're coming from Aerion 1.0, this guide gives you a quick orientation to what's new and what's been reworked.

## What's new at a glance

The most important changes:

* **Planner 2.0** — a complete overhaul with skill search, saved views, KPIs, drag & drop, and a per-project planning overlay.
* **View management** — saved, configurable views across all central areas.
* **Skill management** for team members, as the basis for skill-based planning.
* **Deal status + sales KPIs** with deal probability and deal value.
* **Detail panels** — manage projects, staff, teams, and more from anywhere, without switching context.
* **Dark mode** across the entire interface.
* Improved **performance and page transitions** throughout the app.
* A holistic **UI redesign** of all components and views

Details on each below.

## New features in detail

### Skill management

Maintain skills for your whole team in one central place. Skill management is the basis for skill-based planning and project staffing.

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What you can do:

* **Manage skills and skill categories centrally** — keep every skill and its category in one place.
* **Group skills by category** — skills are organized into Soft Skills, Technical Skills, Certificates, and Languages.
* **Rate with five skill levels** — from Beginner to Master.
* **Administer skills per staff member** — set each person's skills and skill levels individually. Every change must be documented with a comment, so the history stays traceable.
* **Flexible permissions** — updated team and global permissions give broad flexibility over who can view and update their own skills and those of others.
* **Find the right resources** — use skills to find the people a project needs, matching capability and availability (via skill search).

### Planner 2.0

The biggest change in this release. Five building blocks that together create a completely new planning experience:

* A redesigned interface.
* **Team search by skills and availability** — find the right people who are also free.
* **Saved views** — save your personal filter and display options as views and switch between them in one click.
* **KPIs in the planner** — utilization and planning metrics in context, without switching to reporting.
* **Drag & drop** — move and adjust plans by drag and drop.
* **Per-project planning overlay** — a dedicated overlay to plan individual projects, available everywhere in the tool.

![](/images/guides/migrating-to-aerion-20/image-mqjl7jx3.png)

### View management

Save your own views across Aerion's central areas — now available in **All projects & clients**, **Utilization**, the **Projects planner**, and the **Dashboard**.

Each view stores a custom configuration of filters and display options, and you switch between your views via tabs — so you can set up a view once and return to it in a click.

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### Detail panels

Detail panels let you manage an entity — a project, staff member, team, and more — from wherever you are, without switching context. Instead of navigating away, you open the entity right in your current view and edit it in place: plan a project from the Project Board, edit a staff member from the dashboard, and so on.

![](/images/guides/migrating-to-aerion-20/image-mqjparac.png)

Detail panels are available for planning projects, projects, sub-projects, clients, super-projects, staff members, and teams.

### Deal status + sales KPIs

A new deal stage for projects, including deal probability and deal value — the basis for sales reporting and pipeline management.

## Reworked

Areas that already existed but were fundamentally redesigned in the 2.0 release:

* **All UI components** — buttons, tables, fonts, filters, lists, forms, and colors. A new, consistent foundation across the whole tool.
* **Settings** — redesign and restructuring of all settings areas.
* **Project Board** — a redesigned project overview with a clearer focus on status and KPIs.
* **Time Tracking & Approval** — time tracking and approval workflows reworked visually and structurally.
* **Team Management** — team structure and staff management redesigned.
* **Charts & visualizations** — modernized charting throughout.