Revision as of 13:44, 19 April 2018

bxp Release 10 Service Enhancement Release 2 is currently planned for release Thursday 22nd March 2018 into Friday 23rd March 2018. Cooperation and collaboration with clients is currently in progress.

• Planned updates moved from SER1 to SER2 are included here.
• There are a host of further changes also available as part of this release.
• Some SER 1 planned updates have been moved to SER 3 Bxp_Release_10_SER_3_prerelease_notes

1 New Pillar - Resources Management

"The basic mission of human resources will always be to acquire, develop, and retain talent; align the workforce with the business; and be an excellent contributor to the business. Those three challenges will never change." Edward L. Gubman

bxp is now in a position to launch it's Human Resources Management (HRM) functionality and support as part of its Resource Management pillar Human_Resources_Management

The primary components of the Resource Management pillar include

• Recruitment
• Employee Self-Service (ESS) Employee_Self-Service_(ESS)
• Training and Development
• Payroll and Remuneration
• Performance management
• Legal and Operational compliance

Area	Modules	Employee Life Cycle	Notes	Availability Notes
Recruitment	Form Management	Hire	Recruitment is already available in bxp.	Scenario to follow shortly.
Employee Self-Service (ESS)	Human Resources Management	Require		R10 SER 2 : Employee Self-Service will be available through the HR module (detailed below).
Legal and Operational compliance	Form Management Human Resources Management	Require	Already available in forms scheduled data protection	Enhancements in HR in SER 2.
Training and Development	eCourse	Inspire	Training and Development is already available in bxp
Payroll and Remuneration	MetaData	Inspire	They are currently delivered using MetaData and integration with payroll solutions.	R10 SER 3 : Payroll and Remuneration will be directly addressed in SER 3
Performance management	Quality Assurance Gamification	Admire	Already available through Quality assurance and Gamification

2 Existing Module Updates

Module	Icon	Total Changes	Link
Communications Manager		X Changes	Bxp_R10SER2_-_Communications_Centre
Dashboards		1 Change	Bxp_R10SER2_-_Dashboards
Form Management		X Changes	Bxp_R10SER2_-_Form_Management
KeyStats		X Changes	Bxp_R10SER2_-_KeyStats
System Access Management		X Changes	Bxp_R10SER2_-_System_Access_Management

3 New Modules

3.1 Human Resources Management

Whilst not a new module the module has been completely revamped and regenerated to directly support the Human Resources Management pillar as discussed above.

Module_-_Human_Resources_Management

4 Engine

4.1 Module Menu appearance

Whilst being a new feature in System Access Management this option will affect all users interaction with bxp modules.

System_Settings_-_Module_menu_appearance

4.2 Security Content Management

A broad sweeping change which affects multiple modules is the enhanced use of Security Groups when managing content and specifically content access.

This is discussed here. Bxp_Security_-_Content_Management

4.3 Security Group Menu

A new menu interface engine has been built called the Security Group Menu engine (SGM). Design with User Sensitive Inclusive Design (USID) design principles in mind the engine provides a new, customisable extremely user friendly way to interact with bxp. Security_Group_Menu

4.4 System notification emails

A number of email and reports from bxp come from a variety of email addresses currently. These are to be unified under the bxpsoftware.com domain.

• security@bxpsoftware.com
• hamsters@bxpsoftware.com
• notification@bxpsoftware.com
• alerts@bxpsoftware.com
• compliance@bxpsoftware.com