As we move towards a monthly product release schedule, we’ll start to communicate releases involving our entire product suite.

Inova Partnering Platform

UAT: September 21, 2021
PROD: October 5, 2021

Technical Improvements

• Enhancements have been made to support integrations with other Inova products. We’ve built new integrations and strengthened existing integrations with the following products:
  • Lead Space, our brand-new module for the Inova Partnering Platform, which will officially launch on Tuesday, September 21st. Lead Space is built to bring more focus, efficiency, and collaboration to S&E teams. Contact your CSM or Account Executive if you’re interested in learning more.
  • The Due Diligence module, built for compliance and internal collaboration, now includes a two-way communication with the Inova Partnering Platform.
  • The Opportunity Portal (Version 2), built for capturing external partnering inquiries online, now offers more flexibility involving assigning roles to contacts.
• For clients using Alpha Vantage, we now have a new API integration which allows for more financial indicators within the Inova Partnering Platform.

More details on recent updates involving other Inova Products.

Lead Space

PROD: September 22, 2021

Improvements

• There’s now direct access to company profiles. Previously, users accessed company profiles through leads. Company profiles contain any related leads.
• The view of lead details has improved, making it easier to find essential information like when a lead was created and last updated.
• UI/UX enhancements include a prompt to refresh lead lists when needed and the re-naming of buttons to be more concise.

Due Diligence Module

UAT: September 21, 2021
PROD: October 5, 2021

Improvements

• There’s a new administration page for managing the application settings, including field configuration, theme configuration, and Inova Partnering Platform project data mapping.
• We’ve added a Due Diligence report template to allow field declarations directly on the Word template, report footer placement and configuration, and error handling during an upload.

Bug Fixes

• We’ve corrected the issue involving ratings and values table on Due Diligence report was not filled in correctly.
• We also fixed the deployment error caused by field column size.

Improvements

• Quick search - We have improved the visibility of the scroll bar to indicate more clearly when there are more than 7 results to display.
• With the introduction of the "Count" button in the version 8.23 of Inova, some users were confused about the conditions under which they could use the "Go to first/last page" and "Go to x page" features in a lister. We've made a few changes to clarify this.
  Now, these features are displayed only when they are usable, ie when the "Count" button is activated.
  
  Lister count disabled:
  Lister count enabled:

Bug Fixes

• Control characters in the email body sometimes prevented emails from being successfully pushed to the Inova Partnering Platform through the new Outlook add-in. This issue is now resolved. 

Improvements

• Performance optimization:
  • The on-demand lister count introduces a change in the listers view. In order to load pages faster, the total number of items displayed on listers is now disabled by default and a "Count" button is available for all listers so that it can be activated whenever the information is needed.
    
  • We also added a warning message in the view and template creation page to let you know when the custom view or template may have an impact on the lister loading time.
    

Technical Improvements

• Patches to strengthen the overall security of the application following the last pentest recommendation.
• Some improvements have been made to support the integration with other Inova products.

Technical Improvements

Our development team has been hard at work preparing for the launch of a brand-new Outlook add-in to replace our existing add-in.

This new release of the Inova platform includes many technical improvements aimed at supporting the new Outlook add-in.
These improvements will help ensure enhanced performance, a simplified installation process via Microsoft’s App Store, ease of use, and usability for iOS Apple device users. The new add-in will be available within the next few weeks. Your Customer Success Manager will reach out to you or your team directly with more information when it’s available.

As a reminder, the Outlook add-in is complimentary to all Inova platform users. If you’re currently using Outlook, the new add-in should enable you to work more efficiently and centralized your communication (emails and documents) within the platform.

Thank you to all our users, especially our beta testers, for their valuable feedback over the past few months. Together with you, we’re designed and developed a more beautiful and intuitive add-in backed by improved performance.

We look forward to the upcoming release. Stay tuned!

New features

• Contact Push: Upon pushing an email into the system, the add-in will detect any contacts not already existing in your Inova Partnering Platform and give you the option to create those new contacts in the database and link them to the right object.
• Folder selection: Upon pushing an email into the system, you will now be able to select the folder to which the documents will be pushed.

The Outlook add-in has been completely redesigned with a focus on user-friendliness to guarantee an optimal experience and boost your productivity by saving you a lot of time and effort!

Please find below a quick overview of the main benefits and features that will make your life easier.

Enhanced performance

• Increased speed and reliability.
• Easy install from the Microsoft Store.
• Supports Macs.

Increased visibility

• Quickly view Inova records that are associated with your emails without switching between the Inova platform and Outlook (using the new relevance algorithm).
• Inova records (standard objects’ name & last modified date) appear directly within the Outlook Add-In’s panel.

Amplified productivity

• Search and browse relevant Inova records stored within the Inova platform directly from Outlook.
• Quickly push emails and documents into the Inova platform with only a couple clicks.
• Option to push an email and document separately, select which documents you’d like to push if there are many documents attached to the email, and rename documents before pushing them into the platform.
• Quickly create new Opportunities, Agreements, Companies, etc. within Inova.

Related articles

• System Requirements
• Installing the add-in
• Configuring the add-in
• Pin the add-in pane to keep it open

This new version of the add-in has been released in order to update our code signing certificate.

Standard installation

• For users who had already installed the previous version (2.3), the add-in will automatically update itself to the 2.4 version after restarting Outlook.
• All new installations (for new users, new computers) of the add-in must be carried out with 2.4 version available here.

Centralized installation

The update will not be done automatically and it is incumbent upon the customer internal Support/IT department to ensure that users are updated to the latest version.
The new offline package is available here.

• Users who already had 2.3 version installed on their computer can continue to use it without any issue if they prefer.
  However, if at some point the add-in is deactivated by Outlook, it will be then impossible for them to reactivate it due to the expiration of the previous certificate. In this case, it will be necessary to deploy the 2.4 version on their machine.
• All new installations (for new users, new computers) of the add-in must be carried out with 2.4 version.

Improvements

• The separator character "|" is now supported.
  Users will no longer receive an error message (An error occurred while refreshing the list. Please check your network connection.) when trying to push an email to an object containing a "|" character in its name.
• Quick select : When searching for an object, the auto-completion is now started from 3 characters or more.
• Quick select : Archived objects no longer appear in the quick select list.
• The size of the Quick Push form has been increased to improve the visibility of the object names.

Technical Improvements

• Various technical improvements have been implemented to speed up the retrieval of objects and avoid the freezing of the Outlook add-in for huge databases.

Bug fixes

• Quick select : The automatic selection was overactive and thus a bit confusing for users. So we removed it and now wait for user validation (Enter key) to select one of the suggested results.

Related articles

• Outlook Add-in v2 : system requirements
• How to uninstall the Outlook Add-in?
• Where can I get the latest version of the Outlook Add-in?
• Outlook Add-in : Standard Installation
• Configuring the Outlook Add-in v2

Improvements

• It is now possible to send files that contain a "+" character in their name.
• Quick Select: when the auto-completion is launched, we can now display up to 10 suggestions.
• The "Connection settings" popup has been simplified. Now, you will just have to enter the URL of your Inova application and the add-in will detect your authentication mode. If you are in SSO, you will be automatically connected. Otherwise, your credentials will be requested.

Bug fixes

• Some users were repeatedly prompted throughout the day for credentials or were not able to connect even though the correct credentials were entered. These issues are now fixed.
• Quick Select: when clicking on the refresh button, the list is now correctly updated with the newly created objects.

Related articles

• Outlook Add-in v2 : system requirements
• How to uninstall the Outlook Add-in?
• Where can I get the latest version of the Outlook Add-in?
• Outlook Add-in : Standard Installation
• Configuring the Outlook Add-in v2