Spend Analytics
Improved Payment status visibility
Our Payment Terms Tracking module got even more specific, as we improve the payment status metric to allow you to get better visibility on how the payments of invoices have developed over time. We include, besides the initial 4 statuses of open, paid early, paid late and paid on time, an indicator when invoices have been paid but the data had been incomplete and the invoice lacks a due date (paid without due date). With this improvement, the invoices are no longer tagged as Open and you’ll get visibility on this odd bookings.
Analytics
Self-service bookmarks available on self-service landing page
Using self service just became even easier and quicker! The self-service landing page now contains all your self-service bookmarks, so you can open any chart you've created in one click! The same filters are also available that you see in your bookmarks drop-down. If you don’t have any bookmarks, try it out today by creating the chart you want, then clicking the bookmarks icon in the top right corner.
Self-service gets its own clear button!
You can now clear all your self service dimensions and measures in one click, using the Clear button at the left of the menu. Clearing all the dimensions and measures will give you a clean slate to build a new chart or select one of your pre-existing bookmarks. Please note that any filters you've selected will remain active in the top bar if you don’t clear those too.
Savings Lifecycle
Project header preferences
We got feedback that some of our users found it hard to find the expand / collapse button of the project header (top left corner of the individual project page). To make it easier to find, you’ll now see the button highlighted when you move your mouse over the header area. We’ll also save your preference, so that the header is always automatically expanded if you usually expand it.
Create new projects without a warning banner
We get it, you don’t want to be warned about missing information on the project when you’ve barely started. We no longer show the warning banner for missing data when creating a new project, mandatory fields will still be highlighted with a red frame.
Bug fixes in SPM
A few bugs have been fixed around SPM, including:
Export for material savings value lines now respects the formatting for a specific field, and no longer formats text as a number in Excel (an issue that trimmed off leading zeros for text fields)
When importing monthly values, the preview now sorts fiscal periods (e.g. FY21/Sep) correctly
Transition dates in the workflow now show up in user’s time zone
Materials Forecasting
Outbound API
Materials Forecasting provides the best Analytics experience out-of-the-box. However, you might also want to use the data in other applications, outside Sievo. So, we are happy to introduce Outbound API for Materials Forecasting, which allows you to use this data in your other systems and tools. In this first version of the API, Sievo is still keeping quite tight control of things and can provide you with Forecasting data extracts via SFTP. However, should you be interested to directly connect to the API we are happy to explore the possibilities.
User Experience
User activity added to user telemetry
We have added a new User activity tab, with two new graphs to user telemetry. Here you’ll find the amount of logins per day and how many new users have logged in. You’ll also see a breakdown of what countries users are visiting from. These datapoints will help you understand how often Sievo is being used and by which user groups. Please note that user telemetry is only available to Super Users, you’ll find it under Administration at the bottom of the navigation.
Home page news in rich text format 🚀
Finally you can make the home page news both beautiful and engaging. Rich text format allows you to format the news article to be easy to read, ensuring your Sievo users get all the information they need! The rich text format editor comes with the following features:
Header: You now have a Bold style you can use for headers
Italic: You can highlight things in Italic
Links: You can add unlimited embedded links pointing to external or Sievo pages.
Emojis: You can add emojis so even millennial can understand the news
Date format: dates are presented in a easy to read 'days/weeks/months ago' format (i.e. 2 weeks ago) making it quick to see how recent the article is (exact publishing date is still shown in a tooltip).