New features in May

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 Explore already, you’ll have a new dataset Team capacity
• This dataset holds the same information used by the Analyze capacity report
• But by having it as a dataset you can now build your own pivot reports on top of it.

Examples

• Give the top 10 teams with the most free capacity in a certain month
• Give me a matrix of the non-plannable percentage per team in one overview
• Do a team by team comparison of planned workload vs free

Export service catalog

• The service catalog now has ‘Export to excel’ functionality
• This will give an Excel overview of all configured services with their activities (1 line per activity)

Cleaner system parameters

• Over time system parameters were added one by one, which led to an unclear overview of what parameters are available
• We have grouped the different parameters logically to give administrators a better overview and control

Equipment scheduling: the right way

• You can define equipment in Binocs and request equipment in the service activity, but the equipment was not scheduled.
• To schedule equipment, you needed a workaround with ‘fake team’ members (explained here)
• Say goodbye to the workaround. From now on equipment can be set up and scheduled properly in Binocs.
• No worries if you’re using the workaround. It will still work, so you can migrate to the built-in equipment scheduling at your own pace.

Logged in user

• Small change, but with a positive security impact
• You see the user that is currently logged in at the top of your screen
• This way you’re sure you are the logged in user