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Version 7.69 of the
EchoSpan platform will be
released on April 13, 2019.
This release includes new
features and enhancements
to our 360-degree feedback
tool that increase
usability. As always, new
features are included at no
cost in their respective
EchoSpan editions.
Brief summaries of the new
features and enhancements
are below. Once the release
is published, we'll make
additional documentation on
each of these items
available in the
product guides
. You can also sign up for
a live session to review
the new features with one
of our client managers on
April 23rd or 24th
here
. We're thankful to all of
our customers for their
suggestions and feedback
that have led to these
great new additions to the
platform.
7.69 Release Highlights
(P= Professional Edition, E
= Enterprise Edition, A =
All Editions)
Major Enhancements:
1. Hour Selector for
Project Autopilot.
When using the Project
Autopilot you can now
specify the time
that you would like events
to be executed. This feature is
especially useful when
administering projects in
different time zones and
allows Administrators the
ability to execute events
on the same day that they
set up an event. If an
event execution time is not
selected, the Project
Autopilot will execute
events at 12:05am CT. (A)
2. Display Self-evaluation
Results to Managers
While Completing
Reviews.
Manager raters can view
self-evaluators' responses
while they complete their
review of that employee.
Self-scores are identified
in the manager's review of
the employee with a
yellow highlight for
rated items
. Self-evaluation comments
are displayed
below the comment box
items
in the managers' review
form for the employee. This
allows Manager Raters to
have a point of reference
when providing feedback to
an employee. (E)
3. Key Phrase Analysis for
Reports
. You can automatically
identify and highlight key
phrases in a Target's
comments report section and
display the results as
a word cloud
or graph. The graph uses
Microsoft Cognitive
Services to extract key
phrases and ranks them
based on frequency. (E)
4. Improved Product Guide
Search.
Searching product guide
articles is now easier as
the search algorithm has
been improved and results
are more accurate.
Search results
are displayed in a ranked
order and show the
relevance of each result. A
short preview of the
product guide article is
also displayed below the
title in search results.
(A)
5. Allow Managers to Run
Reports on Indirect
Reports
This feature provides
managers with the ability
to run 360 reports on
assigned Targets and
indirect reports from their
project dashboards. Admins
can define how many past
review cycles Managers have
access to, or they can opt
to allow access to reports
from all past review
cycles. Managers are
defined by an uploaded
employee hierarchy file,
or, can be defined by
managerial Rater groups
(P, E)
Other Enhancements:
1. Revised Hidden Strengths
& Blind Spots report
component (P, E)
2. Option to only display
Self-evaluation comments in
reports (P, E)
3. Upload Raters to a
single Target from Excel
(A)
4. Restricted access option
for Admins to prevent
access to reports (P, E)
5. Improved timestamp
logging for Rater list
change notifications (P, E)
6. Prevent deletion of
Rater groups when there are
In Progress or Finished
Raters (A)
7. Enhanced Admin access
controls for support
requests (A)
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