Product updates

Wednesday, July 10th (8pm CEST) we deploy a small patch to Binocs and while we’re at it we’re introducing a small, but much requested new feature.   Control the custom activity dropdown The dropdown list in the schedule can get long after a while: you…

Monday evening June 24th (6pm CEST), we’ll push some new code to the Binocs production environment (it’s already available on UAT). If you’re not using the Binocs scheduler you will not be impacted. We’re introducing an extra option to lock activities in the schedule =…

We developed new Binocs capabilities and can’t wait to share them with you. The release is planned Friday, May 24th (6 pm CET+1). If you want to take a look, the features are already available in your UAT environment. Team capacity data source If you’re using…

In the previous update, we talked about the new report editor that is coming soon in Binocs. But we have been cooking up more than that. A part of the Binocs release of March 11th is an improved user experience of the user rights (=more control)…

One of the main goals in 2019 is to take Binocs reporting to the next level. In the coming months, we’ll be gradually releasing new features to make your data more insightful and easier to analyze. As part of our March 11th release, an improved…

In 2 weeks (Friday 25th of January) we’re introducing a new feature to make managing demand even easier: Bulk demand actions. You’ll be able to select multiple demand items in a folder and with one click you can: assign them to team member (s) change…

Before going into holiday mode, the Binocs development team has installed the new features announced in our previous update. Let me quickly summarize what that means for you. New improved capacity analysis report The new Analyze capacity report is ready. In this report it’s much easier…

The Christmas break is coming! When you come back to work in 2019, we’ll have improved the reports quite a bit (speed and new possibilities). What we show below will be available on the 24th of December 2018. (December 17th available on UAT) New improved…

We added a few great new capabilities in the latest version of Binocs. New things to try which are already live in your environment Demand NEW: combine multiple tag types in demand search. E.g. stage = XXX and material = YYY NEW: If Unconstrained analysis…

While most were preparing their beach body for the summer the last months, our developers have been crunching their code to give you a set of great new Binocs features. Read-on for details about what’s new… An extra option to manage expertise Before, when requesting expertise a…

The Schedule board Users of the Binocs scheduling module are quite satisfied with the results. It works well, but it lacked that visual touch people were used to when they had a planning board or Excel template. From now on, you’ll be able to manage…

We’re close to finishing up a batch of great new Binocs features and enhancements. We’re planning on launching it in 2 weeks (Monday 26th of february), so we wanted to give you a thorough preview before it shows up in a browser near you. Gantt…

We want you to have something to look forward to during the christmas break. When you come back at work in 2018 some very interesting new features will be available in Binocs. Everything we’ll share below will be available the 8th of January 2018. Sorting…

The development team is wrapping up a whole bunch of improvements on the scheduling module, but that doesn’t mean we forgot the other users. This release is about style and small usability tweaks. We gave the reports a trendy overhaul, added sorting on the standard…

We’re constantly asking ourselfs how can we make Binocs easier and more simple to use. So we simplified a couple of things for demand: Now it’s dead simple to analyse demand We simplified priority overwriting We 10x-ed the speed to check the change history of…

The upcoming June release’s got a sweet set of new features I’m excited to share with you. Timephased expertise input In previous versions of Binocs, requested expertise is spread (=automatically divided) between requested start and finish without an option to specify when you need the…

Immediate insights in the execution progress of your demand In the demand tree, for a demand folder, you’ll get a consolidated view on the execution process of the demand items within this folder and it’s sub-folders. This is how it looks: The format of the…

THE most important Binocs feature is off course the analyze flow (=the Binocs algorithm comparing the demand with the capacity and creating the reports). We just finished a major simplification of that flow. 1. It’s more obvious how to update the reports When you wanted…

From long and mid-term planning to short term scheduling all in one system. It’s been a fantastic year so far. We’ve made a ton of improvements already, but we’re only getting started. Normally we release new Binocs updates every few weeks but now it’s been…

Through casual conversations with customers and watching users interact with Binocs, one thing became very clear recently: We could make major improvements on the way users add extra (user configurable) information to Binocs objects. We dug in deeper. We asked a lot of questions. We…

We’ve got a lot of new Binocs stuff to share with everyone. Everything listed below has already shipped and is available in your Binocs environment. Sortable lists Quickly see which competences haven’t been updated for a while, sort the demand channels on priority or see…

Over the past few months we’ve been working on a bunch of great improvements to Binocs. Here’s a list of some of the big stuff that we’ve shipped recently, and live in your very own Binocs account today. What has happened recently? On the dashboard…

Hey all! Check out the improvements we’ve made (and new features we’ve added) since April. Everything listed below has already shipped and is available in Binocs. Full Excel export Although the Binocs and Excel pivot charts are very similar, we’ve got users that want to…

Hey all! Wow the last few months were busy for us. You too? We’ve got a lot of new stuff to share with everyone. Everything listed below has already shipped and is available in Binocs. Here’s what’s new Partial competences + start and end dates…

Administrators have more control over who can see and edit what We changed the user rights and introduced view filters and edit rights: View filters: You want to help users to focus and avoid that they get lost in the clutter of the full user…