Atollon 2019 Innovations

• Atollon Innovations 2019 (week 43)
• Atollon Innovations 2019 (week 31)

Atollon Innovations 2019 (week 43)

Major Updates

Business Intelligence

• Reporting for Product performance
• Reporting for company cash flow (revenue controlling vs cash expectation)

Desktop

• It is possible to login to Atollon using Single Sign-On technology (useful for multiple Atollon instances organizations)

Recruitment

• Talent Source - new tool to help recruiters compare Atollon data with LinkedIn now supports Desktop and new CV Inbox for automated CV imports

Server

• Technical migration to newest version of programming language (C++) that allows us having comprehensive stability and security testing as well as heavy under the hood improvements

Webmail

• Now supports full HTML mail editing incl. HTML mail forwarding

 

New Features

Calendar

• New CalDAV protocol standard added for reading user's calendar data using native iPhone or Android app tools and other scheduling clients

Desktop

• It is possible to share link to Atollon data (clients, contacts, projects, invoices, tasks, messages, etc.)

Sending link to Client / Lead

Sending link to Invoice

Sending link to Task

Desktop

• It is possible to add the link to Dashboard (Welcome widget)

Recruitment

• New fully automated Applicant profile import tool turned from Front-end to Back-end - on a path to one-click CV imports

Enhancements

• Business Intelligence - Project Profitability report now includes deal value to show complete project cash flow pipeline from sales, over budgets to real revenues
• Business Intelligence - new Team reporting supports orgchart reporting with users migrating from team to team in time
• Document Library - support for Alfresco DMS integration now supports new API
• Finder - now all components track changes and protect users against accidental loosing of updates
• General - new print engine allowing to modify headers/footers of printed documents dynamically
• Invoice - new external reference number for accounting software integration that allowed us to use internal invoice description again for the purpose it was meant to at the beginning
• Invoice - it is possible to mass-change products in invoice, estimate, etc.
• Invoice - issued invoices ronding has been changed to adopt new VAT rules
• Invoice - new invoice taxation date defaults changed (may require further optimization due to various workflows)
• Invoice - now remembers previously chosen options in Invoice header
• Products - now it's possible to show/hide active or inactive products easily
• Products - it is possible to administer Product statuses
• Recruitment - BI - reporting for Sourcing activity - now it is possible to show recruitment pipeline statistics based on sourcer's activity
• Recruitment - listing skills and synonyms is now more robust - using lower-case and diacritics to make automated CV import easier
• Recruitment - new Applicant Search criteria "Does have contact info" - means show only contacts that can be contacted immediately
• Recruitment - more robust identification of duplicate contacts to support new Talent Source (LinkedIn) tool

Bug Fixes

• Business Intelligence - new Timesheet BI report now fully functional, incl. user friendly chargeability displaying
• Contact - improved way of automated GDPR consent updating using online GDPR approval tool
• Form - fixed broken custom scripting in desktop app
• Invoice - it is possible to mass-remove items from invoice again
• Messages - moving messages now works without any freezing
• Recruitment - it is possible to undo pending changes in marketing channel update
• Reporting - fixed filtering for "Current User" relative report filter criteria in some report fields
• Time Sheet - updating time sheet fixed - now only people with access priviliges to Edit internal or external rates may update price information in Time records
• Sales - fixed custom ordering of Sales Items in Deals

Atollon Innovations 2019 (week 31)

Major Updates

• Desktop - complete new window layout for better user experience

• Server - complete platform upgrade (from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7, from PostgreSQL 8 to 9, from qmail to exim), now supports Linux best practices for software delivery

New Features

• BI - Finance Revenues Estimate - new reporting on "Active Deal Value" allows measuring your actual sales performance (compare to plan, compare to future revenues)

• BI - Timeline - new reporting on any activity of any system user
• BI - Project Finance - new dream report for tracking your project or client profitability
• Contact - it is possible to add preferred invoice due days
• Messaging - New mail delivery rules allow you to delete message or move messages to personal folders or contexts

• Messaging - it is possible to create task from message
• Recruitment - it is possible to administer Jobfield / position lists
• Recruitment - new synonyms administration allows you track keywords coming from CVs to system lists

Enhancements

• General - it is possible to create new organization unit (in case you open your branch abroad)
• General - it is possible to administer system in Tree view (for advanced Atollon administrators)
• General - multi-national switch of contact search now supports CZ or SK auto-contact fill
• General - full multi-organization support, now ListContext uses shared contexts as well
• BI - Planning - bottom-up planning support added, allows you to build your plan by adding new dimensions into the plan
• BI - Planning - it is possible to easily copy planned data from one period to the next
• BI - Planning - added quick sums to get overview about current changes
• BI - added support for User Team dimension, derived from user's membership in a team (see Work Contract, in case you want to edit the relation)
• Contracting - business process improved (applicant and vacancy MD rates, new base product type Bodyshopping into invoice, etc.)
• Desktop - new atollon app landing page with links to web version, webmail, touch and desktop download

• Desktop - quick switching between open windows of the same character added

• Custom Forms - folder or project detail containing custom forms is now more reliable - it watches whether changes are (un)saved and warns user before leaving the form, thus loosing any unsaved data
• Desktop - position of new window improved
• Finder - added contact reg.no. and `VAT into contact preview in Finder's header
• Invoice - form responsiveness
• Invoice - added support for Period from .. to fields to track information on the duration of provided services
• Invoice - it is possible to print custom fields now
• Invoice - now contact's (client's) preferred due date support added back
• Messaging - it is possible to forward original e-mail (right-click context menu: Forward as attachment)
• Messaging - it is now possible to copy & paste all elements of e-mail, To/Cc/Notify fields are now indicated in front of the message recipient
• Messaging - HTML e-mail preview now properly shows embedded images
• Products - added better rounding to avoid possible bugs in sums
• Products - listing of products now by default shows only active products (new filter for displaying products added)
• Recruitment - more reliability of saving possibly unsaved data (warning user before leaving the unsaved form)
• Recruitment - added support for Keywords used to add structured data from keywords to applicant profile
• Reporting - new fields for recruitment reporting (primary position, jobfield, invoicing)
• Reporting - new tool to mass-change access rights added to help you modify access rights of existing folders or projects
• Reporting - report packs may contain both generic and business intelligence reports in one document
• Reporting - it is possible to report invoices on dates of provided service (period from ... to)

Bug Fixes

• General - many bug fixing to make the app super stable
• General - added online logging of error events and crash monitoring to help us prevent any issues that are not immediately visible
• General - auto-clean function for unused ACLs now makes the system of access rights faster
• Messaging - visibility of added attachments improved (3rd attachment out of three added was hidden)
• Messaging - added online logging of message deliverability, we track now each occurence of any possible failure (up until now only spam e-mails were not delivered correctly sometimes, we care about spam now as well ...)
• Messaging - new server side component for e-mail imports improves support for various kinds of attachments, their support was extended
• Recruitment - adding using company quick add component was not reliable after searching the company, which is now fixed
• Recruitment - adding new ZIP code for advertisement location was causing older data replacement, which was a nasty hidden bug that was fixed
• Recruitment - skill duplication fixed
• Recruitment - update selection procedure (dates selection vs phase) in case no date is selected
• Reporting - various fixes of reports crashing
• Reporting - fixed cost reporting to be durable against possible contsultant misconfiguration of account types (revenue vs cost reporting)