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= ICI Release Notes - Release 8.1 =
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== Release 8.1 New Features ==
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These release notes provide an overview of the enhancements to ICI, the ICI experience for integrations, and so on.
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•      Refer to the [[#_Technical_Requirements_8.1|'''Technical Requirements''']] for the release in this document.
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•      Refer to the [https://ici-us-wiki01.icertis.com/ICIHelp8.1/index.php?title=ICI_Help '''Wiki'''] documentation (also found in your ICI help section) for details on all ICI features and functionalities.
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The 8.1 Release introduces the following enhancements to the Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) platform:
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== Icertis Contract Intelligence  ==
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=== Agreement & Platform  ===
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'''A new collaboration experience with Microsoft Teams'''
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ICI now leverages the powerful capabilities of Microsoft Teams to help internal teams collaborate on contract creation workflow and expediting the contracting lifecycle. The Teams integrations will help customers to use a single communication system and discussions can be held in context of the agreement.
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The feature includes:
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*Contract owner can initiate a collaboration on MS teams from agreement details page and also invite agreement team members to participate in the discussion.
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*The latest version of the agreement document is also made available on the teams channel while initiating the collaboration. Participants can review, redline the agreement document in MS teams and publish the edited document back to ICI as a new version.
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*The documents associated with main agreement in ICI can also referenced in MS teams channel
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Feature ID: 1188391
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'''Negotiate and Update Agreements with the new Outlook Add-in'''
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The new Outlook Add-in connects users’ emails with Icertis Contract Intelligence and provides improved collaboration capabilities and ensures information sent on emails is tracked for audit and governance on ICI. In addition, the new add-in provides a better interaction design, in line with the modern ACE user experience released in version 8.0.
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The Add-in for Microsoft Outlook Desktop is supported on Windows and Mac OS. Once installed, an '''Icertis Experience for Outlook''' pane is accessible from Outlook. The pane provides access to ICI agreement data, along with success and error messaging for interactions. It can be pinned on the interface for easy access.
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With the Outlook Add-in improvements, users can now do the following:
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*Add attached documents in emails as associations or a new agreement version in ICI.
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*Preview Agreement and Association documents from the Outlook Add-in.
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*Drag-and-drop single or multiple emails as associations.
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*Replace existing associated document with a new email or email attachment.
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*Access agreements and associated documents from the Outlook plugin and email them attachments to reviewers or approvers any stakeholders.
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*New incoming messages for email threads marked as associated documents are automatically added as new associated documents. 
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Feature IDs: 1137119, 1137121
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'''Quick & Easy Agreement Creation'''
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Agreement Contract Types now come with a Quick Creation option. For all agreements using this option, users can fill all the necessary information on a single page and publish the contract or send it for approval immediately.
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Feature ID: 1183356
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'''More Quick Action Options'''
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The Quick Actions widget “What would you like to do” has been enhanced to provide multiple actions/links with one quick action line item. For example, “Create MSA” quick action now provides multiple links catering to “Own” and “Third Party” paper selections, as displayed in the image below.
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<div class="image-green-border">[[File:RN 8.1 1.png|520px|RN 8.1 1.png]]</div>
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Feature ID: 1183310
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'''External Emails Split to Ensure Compliance&nbsp;'''
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Contracts sent for review or approval by email to other parties, legal consultants and users not within ICI are now split in two parts. A URL and passcode can be shared with the users and the review can be done completely online. No need of downloading and attaching documents and tracking versions offline. The process is quick, secure and easy to audit.<br/> Two emails are sent, One email is sent containing the agreement URL and the other with the passcode to access the URL. This method could be used for requesting reviews, reviews and approval.<br/> <br/> Users can also resend the notification to external users whose reviews are pending, with the help of the “Resend Passcode Notification” button.<br/> <br/> To enable this feature, the implementation team needs to configure it explicitly.&nbsp;<br/> <br/> Feature ID: 1216716&nbsp;
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'''Deviation management for text and tables outside content control'''
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If changes are made to the plain text in agreements or tables in associations of an agreement document (text which is not a clause or attribute), a deviation can now be triggered to help Legal teams exercise greater content control. The changes are highlighted and the deviations will flow through an approval process.<br/> <br/> Feature ID: 1183384&nbsp;
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'''Support for Microsoft Powerpoint documents'''
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ICI now supports Microsoft Powerpoint file formats (files with .ppt and .pptx extension) as third-party paper agreement file formats. In addition to PDF and DOCX file formats, users can now create and negotiate contracts using PPT and PPTX files.
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Feature ID: 1183367
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'''Online Editing Of Own Paper'''
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In this release, ICI is enhancing its existing online editing feature &nbsp;by supporting online editing of own paper documents. using Microsoft WOPI.We have improved the experience for editing agreements with Microsoft Online applications In this release.
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The following improvements can be observed:
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*Documents with editable content control can be edited and and values are is synced seamlessly.
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*The track changes option will now track all the changes made by the users in reviewing mode, creating a redlined version of the document.
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*The empty content control will be displayed as blank instead of “obj”.
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*The content controls within tables can now be edited with associations tagged as tables and saved searches.Content controls within tables will now be editable.&nbsp;
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Feature ID: 1287270&nbsp;
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'''Support for Inheritance of Bulk Associations&nbsp;'''
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In addition to attributes and associations, now bulk associations contract types (BACT) and their extension attributes can now be inherited from parent to child agreements.&nbsp;
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The agreements with BACT associations will get inherited asynchronously along with all extension attributes of all the associations. The bulk associations will also work as they do in parent agreements.
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Feature ID: 1278205&nbsp;
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'''Enhancement to Download all Agreement & Associated Documents in one click''' &nbsp;
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With this release, we have expanded on the Download all capability which allowed users can to download the agreement and itsall associated documents in one click saving much time and effort.&nbsp;
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This functionality was earlier available when the signature type for the agreement was set to manual, it is now available for electronic and hybrid signature types as well.
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Additionally, the “Download All” button will now be visible to users based on the role action mapping in superseded state as well.&nbsp;
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Feature ID: 980342&nbsp;
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'''Platform changes to enhance UX for Business Applications'''
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To improve findability and relevance of information pertaining to a particular business application, some configuration changes are now available in the platform. These changes significantly improve the search and usability experience when working with Agreements, Associations or any Business Application.
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The following configurations are now supported:
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*Business Applications have dedicated index pages, where users can search for the information pertaining to the specific business application.
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*Agreements and Associations index pages do not show information from Business Applications.
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*On the Advanced Search page, users have a choice to search for information from Agreements or specific business applications.
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*Left navigation of a business application entity page can be configured to show the relevant links.
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*Results for global search are categorized by the business application name if they are not Agreements or Associations.
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*When creating a Contract Type, seeded attributes only relevant to the Business Application Type and Category can be seededwill be selected.
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Feature ID: 1183274&nbsp;
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=== Self-Service ===
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'''Introduction of a Technical Admin user to access the System Configuration on Self Service Portal'''
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With the risk of inaccuracies in technical configurations, given their critical importance, such configurations have been, till now, hosted outside the confines of ICI, where ICI admin users, who have azure subscriptions to an instance, authored the process.
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Therefore, the capability of admin users within ICI were being limited and the scope of technical configurations had to be expanded.
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Now, a solution has been devised with this feature, as enunciated in the following:
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*Technical Administrators can now be configured/added for performing required technical configurations in the System Configuration Portal, using the new “Technical Roles” field while adding, provisioning or editing a user.
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'''Note:''' The user has to be Internal in order to be authorized with “Technical Roles”, and selecting an external user will automatically discount the Technical Roles feature.
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*The portal has been upgraded for Technical Admin users, with enhancements to the Landing page, header, menu options, along with a static welcome message.
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*Appropriate messaging and communication will be provided for any negative scenarios, wherein the Technical Admin User faces any challenge accessing or configuring.
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*When a new ICI admin user logs in, they should be able to setup other internal users as technical admin users of the System Configuration portal.&nbsp;
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'''Note:''' Only the ICI Admin user should be able to setup other internal provisioned users as the Technical Admin user.
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*The ICI Admin can either create a new Security group, as required, or use an existing security group.&nbsp;
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*The authorization of technical admin users will depend on Security Groups Privilege to the “Self Service” privilege entity, and on roles assigned to specific users.
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*The “Self Service” privilege can be configured in the backend and it will be visible to users under the Security Group Privilege tab.
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*The “Manage” access option can be selected to grant access to the System Configuration Portal for technical admin users.
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'''Note:''' The user who gets Technical Admin privileges can be any internal provisioned user on that instance (even a non admin user).
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Feature ID: 1210894
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'''Building the Config Key Update utility as part of the System Configuration on Self Service Portal'''
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Today, in ICI – There are close to 800 configuration keys in the system. These keys are managed via the ICM Tools which is hosted outside of ICI. With this initiative, we have started the migration these Keys incrementally to be part of the System Configuration – Self Service Portal.&nbsp;
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The scope for this release is to migrate 10 keys into the utility. The access to this utility is driven by the Technical Admin role as explained in the previous section.&nbsp;
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Once the user successfully enters the ‘System Configuration – Self Service’ portal with the correct security groups and technical admin role, they will be able to see the ‘Config Key Updates’ entry point at the top of the screen
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<div class="image-green-border">[[File:RN 8.1 2.png|720px|RN 8.1 2.png]]</div>
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On clicking the Config Key Updates menu, the user will be able to see the utility where the defined 10 keys will be loaded on the screen, along with their existing values.
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<div class="image-green-border">[[File:RN 8.1 3.png|720px|RN 8.1 3.png]]</div>
 
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The user will be able to view each key loaded into a card. The card will contain the name of the key along with it’s value.&nbsp;
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The user will be able to see a dedication section to the right of the page for viewing help information
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The user will be able to click on the ‘3-dot’ option on each card to edit the value of the key
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<div class="image-green-border">[[File:RN 8.1 4.png|720px|RN 8.1 4.png]]</div>
 
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On clicking the Edit option, the key information will be loaded in the right drawer panel. Here the user can edit the key value and Save using the button at the bottom of the drawer
  
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<div class="image-green-border">[[File:RN 8.1 5.png|720px|RN 8.1 5.png]]</div>
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= ICI&nbsp;Release Notes - Release 8.0 =
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The user can edit one or more keys using the ‘3-dot’ option on each card. Once the user has finished editing all the keys, they need to click on the ‘PUSH CHANGES TO ICI’ button at the top of the grid. This will internally update the keys with the edited values in ICI for the changes to take effect
  
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== Introducing ICI ACE UX ==
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<div class="image-green-border">[[File:RN 8.1 6.png|720px|RN 8.1 6.png]]</div>
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Feature ID: 1180864
  
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'''The 8.0 Release introduces significant enhancements to the User Experience (UX) via the ACE UX – an <u>A</u>daptable, <u>C</u>ustomer Focused and <u>E</u>fficient user experience for navigating ICI.'''
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=== Administration & Configuration&nbsp; ===
  
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=== Motivations for ACE UX ===
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'''Quick Configuration with ICI Import Solution'''
  
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The new user interface dynamically adapts to the Contract Intelligence paradigm and enables the platform to scale with new features and data, while maintaining a delightful interface which is more intuitive and configurable.
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The ICI Import Solution is an automated solution for configuring ICI entities. It simplifies the initial configuration process and reduces the time and complexities involved in the process.
  
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The revamp aims at driving usability and user adoption while maintaining the general ICI contract lifecycle actions that are widely consumed by ICI users across businesses, industries and verticals.
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Using the Import Solution tool, ICI users can now:
  
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=== Key Changes in ACE UX ===
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*Import configurations from a source ICI instance to a target ICI Instance with no pre-existing configuration data.
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*Import configurations between different versions of ICI.
  
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ICI ACE UX offers the following changes:
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'''Note:''' Support will be provided for up to 2 releases preceding the target ICI version.
  
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'''General Look and Feel'''
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*Register and publish preconfigured import solutions.
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*Import the following information:
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*Contract Types
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*Templates
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*Clauses
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*Rules
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*Notifications
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*Masterdata Instances
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*Seeded Masterdata entity instances
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*Users & User Groups
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*Security Groups
  
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*Streamlined Responsive Interface offers more space for contract data and insights
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*Consistent experience across the application for faster User Adoption
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*All popups have been replaced by drawers to make more room for data
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*Icons have been replaced with descriptive text for enhanced readability
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'''Home Page Dashboard'''
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'''Contract Types can now be locked for editing&nbsp;'''
  
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*A single highly configurable dashboard type which can host KPIs, Graphic Reports, Searches and Links to bring the right data to the user’s fingertips
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Contract types can now be edited by only one user at a time. This functionality helps prevent data inconsistencies or concurrency errors.
  
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'''Agreement View'''
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*Agreement-specific Dashboards with embedded reports, related terms, and documents to reduce the need for navigation
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*Split View Preview and Word Online Editing for easy collaboration
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*Agreement status chevron to easily track the progress of agreements
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*Messaging providing information on who is editing the contract type.&nbsp;
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*System locks get released when contract types are saved.
  
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Feature ID: 1212463&nbsp;
  
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*Updated positions and grouping of actions for quicker access
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'''Enhancements to Legacy Upload Tool'''
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*Search and filtering functionality updated to find documents more quickly
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The following features will be added to the Legacy Upload utility with this release, improving speed and accuracy and reducing file size.
  
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*New single click Create Workbench to access all create actions (agreements, templates, users, etc.)
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*Drag-and-drop agreement creation and update, and addition of associated documents
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*Users can schedule upload in batches within guardrails to improve system resource allocation.&nbsp;
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*Create wizard look and feel updates while maintaining existing flows
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*Specific range of records from the UI can now be uploaded.
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*Infra and Elastic Search health check can be run before executing the scheduled batches.
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*On demand batch scheduling based on the user provided schedule.&nbsp;
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*Supporting legacy entity created with large files 100MB+.
  
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''Other''''enhancements in the 8.0 release include:''
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'''Enhancements to Artificial Intelligence Applications'''
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'''Unique clause and template code for every environment'''
  
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Users can now customize their clause and template codes for different instances. If unique codes are used, it reduces errors when migrating data from one instance to another. It also simplifies searching of clauses and templates.
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*Platform Analytics Reports UI and Functionality have been enhanced with ACE UX capabilities
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'''Template and Clause creation options in Microsoft Word'''
  
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'''Improving the Icertis Experience'''
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The Create Template and Create Clause options in the Icertis Experience for Word are only displayed to users with access to these features. Earlier an error message was displayed to users without access and resulted in an unsatisfactory experience.
  
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*The Icertis Experience for Salesforce and Icertis Experience for Microsoft Dynamics CRM have been updated to work seamlessly with ACE UX.
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Feature ID: 1187041
  
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These release notes provide an overview of the enhancements to ICI, the ICI experience for integrations, and so on.
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'''Show or Hide confirmation messages in Microsoft Word&nbsp;'''
  
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Administrators can now choose to show or hide certain confirmation messages, as per the organization's preference, on the Icertis Experience for Word.
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=== Technology Updates ===
  
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=== Overall Look and Feel ===
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'''ServiceBus upgraded to Azure.Messaging.ServiceBus'''
  
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The ICI user interface has been revamped to provide more personalizability, better consistency, more room for contract data, and reduced navigation needs. These include:
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“Azure.Messaging.ServiceBus” is now replacing “Microsoft.ServiceBus”. &nbsp;<br/> <br/> This is a Microsoft recommended upgrade and provides the following improvements:
  
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*Persistent headers on each page for users to readily identify the current page while navigating through various locations in ICI.
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*More accurate messaging without any anomaly or junk data in the message characters.  
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*All validation messages and pop-up messages (such as error, help, warning and similar messages) are displayed as toast notifications at the bottom right corner of the UI.  
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*The ICI UX is compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) to enable ICI for all users.  
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The landing page in ICI now has sleek, fresh, and personalizable modules to give users a quick and comprehensive view of the contract activities which are most relevant to them.&nbsp;
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'''Authentication Library and Graph API update'''
  
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Microsoft has announced* deprecation of the Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Authentication Library (ADAL) and Azure AD Graph API libraries and recommends using Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) and Microsoft Graph API.
  
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While retaining the tiles representing the different entities within ICI, the entire tiles bar has now been made into a collapsible unit, allowing users more visual space.
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We have updated Microsoft Graph, Identity and Key Vault packages to include stability and security fixes from Microsoft. The migration from ADAL and Azure AD Graph API to MSAL and Microsoft Graph API will ensure continuing support for the following areas:
  
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Each entity tile, viz. Agreements, Requests, Associations, Compliances, Templates, Clauses along with Reports, Advanced Analytics and Bulk Actions navigate users directly to the respective ICI area.
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Refer to the following link for Microsoft’s circular: [https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-active-directory-identity/update-your-applications-to-use-microsoft-authentication-library/ba-p/1257363 Update your applications to use Microsoft Authentication Library and Microsoft Graph API - Microsoft Tech Community].
  
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The menu options at the top-right of the UI have been upgraded to incorporate user actions. A bell icon indicates Notifications where a red dot signifies new/unread messages and clicking this icon directs the user to the Notifications Dashboard. A user-and-time icon indicates the Activity Panel, which opens a drawer and can be refreshed to reflect the latest activities.
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While the Help link (question icon) continues to open in another tab, clicking the User Settings icon opens a drawer menu for users to update their preferences.
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=== API Enhancements ===
  
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==== Dashboard ====
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The modern widget-based dashboard can easily be configured to suit users’ needs and retains the configurability of the widget-based dashboard while giving a modern visual appeal.
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[[File:RN 8.1 11.PNG|720px|RN 8.1 11.PNG]]<br/> [[File:RN 8.1 12.PNG|720px|RN 8.1 12.PNG]]
  
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[[File:RN 8.1 13.PNG|720px|RN 8.1 13.PNG]]<br/> <br/> [[File:RN 8.1 14.PNG|720px|RN 8.1 14.PNG]]
  
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[[File:RN 8.1 18.PNG|720px|RN 8.1 18.PNG]]
  
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==== Create Workbench: Access create options including agreements, related content and system configuration options from a single point ====
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[[File:RN 8.1 19.PNG|720px|RN 8.1 19.PNG]]
  
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The Create Workbench is a new button which provides a single location to initiate work items which saves multiple navigation clicks. The options available here are dynamically controlled based on the user permissions.
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[[File:RN 8.1 20.PNG|720px|RN 8.1 20.PNG]]
  
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[[File:RN 8.1 22.PNG|720px|RN 8.1 22.PNG]]
  
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The workflows for creating and editing agreements are foundational to users and we have made multiple changes to them over the years while maintaining the overall paradigms.
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[[File:RN 8.1 23.PNG|720px|RN 8.1 23.PNG]]
  
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With this release, creating and editing an agreement has a brand-new look that enhances the user experience. The new “Create” button on the agreement index page is going to be used as the triggering action button for approaching the creation of an agreement.
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The process stage is immediately visible at the top, below the page title, with indicators of the current step. The Action Buttons persist at the bottom of window, as opposed to scrolling away with the page.
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A number of enhancements have been introduced in the Agreements views to provide more information to users with less navigation and to make working with Agreements more streamlined and personalized. The left panel on the agreement page is now collapsible to allow more space for viewing contract data. All tabs in the panel have been enhanced per the new UI.
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[[File:RN 8.1 28.PNG|720px|RN 8.1 28.PNG]]
  
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A new Agreement Dashboard has been introduced that displays a visual overview of the agreement and enables users to access various agreement content from a single page, saving several navigation steps. The Agreement Dashboard can be configured by an Admin by contract type and team role in the “Dashboard Configuration” page. The dashboard tab will be the default experience, but users can choose to revert to the contract “Summary” tab which is still available. Multiple out-of-the-box agreement specific widgets are available to personalize the view:
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'''API Deprecations'''
  
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*Contract overview
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Any integrations utilizing the deprecated APIs must adopt alternate APIs. Previously, API endpoints have been periodically deprecated and alternate APIs have been provisioned.
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*Key attributes of an agreement (for example, Expiry Date or Terms)
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*Navigation widget to access reports
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*All specific contract terms available in the agreement left navigation pane are available as widgets (for example, Clauses, Commitments)
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*Saved Searches
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*SmartLinks
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The updated layout of Agreement Summary page improves readability while providing more summary content.
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However, no existing API endpoints have been deprecated in the 8.1 Release. To check previously deprecated endpoints, refer to 7.16 Release Notes. More details on the alternate APIs are available in the Swagger documentation.
  
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The Breadcrumb bar has been updated to display the document name and code to make it more meaningful.
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=== Mobile App Update&nbsp; ===
  
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All action buttons have been moved to the top right of the page for better visibility. Additional actions are available in the Context Menu (3-dots-icon). These are configurable by Admins via the Action Button Configuration.
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'''Improved Security on Mobile Devices with SafetyNet Attestation API'''
  
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The resizable split view can be used for side-by-side Preview, Online Collaboration and Compare Documents while having ready access to attributes in the left section.
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With this release, ICI is implementing SafetyNet Attestation API for Android mobile application to restrict users from accessing the application through rooted/vulnerable device, to avoid breaching of the IT and cyber security policy.
  
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Online Editing has been enhanced to open the document in full screen in the same page instead of a new tab.
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'''Note: '''The SafetyNet Attestation API is supported Android version 8.0 onwards.
  
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An enhanced Drag-and-Drop function is now available on every page of the agreement that can create new version of agreements, and add or update versions of associations.
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Feature ID: 1095223
  
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The chevron view has undergone a change in look and feel. It now appears in a compact view next to the status, with a link to the workflow status drawer displaying the steps of the agreement workflow.
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== AI Applications&nbsp; ==
  
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=== Index Pages ===
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Usually, the implementation team spends a lot of time analyzing and training the AI model for the discovery of the new attributes. With this release, ICI is extending the number of pre-trained attributes so that the AI apps implementation project can be expedited. ICI previously had added 23 out-of-the-box attributes and introducing 15 additional attributes in this release, making it a total of 38 new attributes as a part pre-trained model. Customers can now start using attributes from pre-trained model with no or very little retraining.
  
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The index pages across ICI have been updated with a compact look and feel, and easy access to actionable elements.
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The additional attributes are:
  
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*Create action has been moved from menu tiles and is now available as a button on index pages. All secondary create actions (for example, Amendments) are available in a sub-menu of the Create button.
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*Acceptance Completion Period
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*The enhanced Grid View and List Views replace the Tile view.
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*Breach Cure Period
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*Columns Text in this view can be clipped or wrapped.
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*Confidentiality Survival Period
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*All record level actions have been moved to the right and can be accessed through the “View Details” and the three-dots icon.
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*Force Majeure Period
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*The “Save View”, “Select Columns” and “Refresh” icons have been replaced with text buttons for quick visibility of the functionality.
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*Interest Percentage on Payment Delay
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*The position of the pagination controls has changed, wherein the page numbers are now on the bottom right and a new section displaying the current number of items on the page appears above the grid/list on the left.
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*Liquidated Damages Cap
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*Selection of columns now supports bulk selection and drag-and-drop additions as well as reordering.
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*Policy changes notice period
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*Records Retention Period
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*Renewal notice period
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*Signatory Name
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*Signatory Title
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*Signature Date
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*Termination for cause notice period
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*Termination for convenience notice period
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*Warranty Claim Period
  
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The behaviors of search options on the index pages have been updated.
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Feature ID: 1187824
  
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*Favorite saved searches are available at the top to quickly access items most relevant to a user.
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=== Enhancing the scope of DiscoverAI app& Negotiate AI differentiation ===
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*Other saved searches are available via “More Views”.
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*Filters can be opened and applied via the left filter panel.
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*Each applied Filter shows as tags across the top of the search results.
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=== Search and Filtering ===
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Discover AI helps users to identify attributes and clauses in browser and save them in the system.
  
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The ICI Search navigation and preview functionality has been updated to provide a simpler yet more powerful search by showing both the context of the search results and also incorporating &nbsp;a split preview to quickly locate documents. The Instant or Global Search option at the top of the UI shows the context of the specific result.
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With this release, scope of DiscoverAI has been enhanced to include the discovery of attributes and clauses within Microsoft word also using Icertis Experience for Word plugin.&nbsp;
  
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Users can access Advanced Search through a dedicated link (previously the Advanced Search icon) on the home page.
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*The following actions/functionalities will be available under the Discover AI license in Icertis experience for Word:&nbsp;
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*Discovery of attributes and clauses.&nbsp;
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*Confirm, Confirm with Deviation, Ignore, Compare and Replace the clauses based on discovered clauses data.&nbsp;
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*Select the Matched Clause from the library.&nbsp;
  
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On opening the “Search” page, default entities are already selected and displayed with respective entity groupings. These groupings have also been rearranged to make it more intuitive and self-explanatory.
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Feature ID: 1284012
  
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Interaction to Save a search (now Save View) has also been enhanced making it easy for users to understand.
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== Reports Enhancements ==
  
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All the existing saved views are available under “More Views”. Now users also get to pin favorites views on the Advanced Search page as well.
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=== Data for agreements awaiting signature in reports ===
  
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The scope of the enhancements, in search module like filter changes, views, save view interactions etc., is applicable to all index pages, for example – Agreement Index Page, Associations, Advanced Search Index page and so on.
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Out-of-the-box ICI reports will now display details for the business status “Waiting for Signature”, in addition to existing statuses. This update to the reporting logic resolves an existing gap in the reports data.
  
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=== Contract Request and Association Management ===
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This enhancement applies to the following reports:
  
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In line with the modern UI changes, agreement associations and contract requests have also been revamped. Now both can be created through the “Create” button on the respective entity index page. The Create, Edit and Details view for both the entities has been also modified and aligns with the agreement look and feel.
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[[File:RN 8.1 29.PNG|520px|RN 8.1 29.PNG]]
  
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Like agreements, the split view on the Associated Document Details page can also be used for the online editing of associations and is applicable to Excel and PowerPoint documents.
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Feature ID: 1071182
  
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=== Clause and Templates ===
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=== Custom reporting views using JSON&nbsp; ===
  
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Clauses and templates are the building blocks of agreements and hold a crucial position in ICI. To enhance the experience of working with these building blocks, they have been amped up to work with the modern UI designs. As a starting point, clauses and templates can be created with the dedicated Create button on the respective entity index pages.
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Developers can now create new custom reports views using Stored Procedures (SP) and JSON files. This feature gives flexibility to organizations to easily develop new reports relevant to their business requirements.
  
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The template and clause creation wizards have step numbers with the current step number highlighted for immediate visibility of the process.
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An Import SP is now available that takes JSON files as input. The JSON file used for input is where developers can define the new view. New reporting views are automatically created on running the Import SP.
  
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The preview pages of “Linked Primary Clause” and “Linked Localized Template” as well as the “Add New Team Member” link on Team tab now open the respective pages in sliding drawers as per the new UI.
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An Export SP is also provided, which can be used to download&nbsp;a JSON file which contains the structure of an existing view in the database, to use as a template to create a new views.
  
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=== Setup and Configuration ===
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Feature ID: 1208472
  
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The workflow of creating contract types and other configuration elements in ICI has been aligned with the ACE UX look and feel. The Create button to the right of the contract type index page allows users to create the four basic contract types of agreement management in ICI; same is applicable for other configuration elements viz. Attributes, Rules, Clause Groups and so on.
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=== Dataset and seeded dashboard for Proposal Management application ===
  
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Similar changes have been applied to the experience of working with Managing Organization, User Groups, Org Groups and Security Groups. For example, the Org Group details page has revamped UI controls such as tabs and the “Edit” button in the far right of the title bar.
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A dedicated Power BI Dataset is now available for the Proposal Management application for out-of-the-box and custom reporting.&nbsp;&nbsp;
  
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All input fields and action buttons have been revamped to meet the modern UI styling, including create/save options to the top-right and text on buttons for clarity.
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PM App Power BI report will have clickable links to ICI entity details page for Proposal Management Entities such as, Sell Side RFx, RFx Qualification, and Bid Proposal.
  
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The Application Settings drawer display is structured with a numbered pages and with highlighted number for the current page. The theme colors in ICI have been changed to a lighter format making it more visually aesthetic, along with introduction of high contrast mode to make the system more accessible.
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Feature ID: 1232650
  
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Role Action Mapping, Attribute Group Privileges, SLA Matrix as well as User Roles configurations have all been upgraded to work with modern UI.
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=== Attribute Information Report Enhancements ===
  
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There are two new configurations introduced in the Admin Section – Dashboard Configuration and Action Button configuration.
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The following filters and columns are added to the Attribute Information report giving more options to analyse the Attributes used in the system.
  
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Dashboard configuration allows Administrator to configure the Main and Agreement Dashboard for the users.
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*Filters: Contract Type, and Group by Property Columns: Is Mandatory and Tracking Attribute
  
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Admins can maintain Multiple Landing page dashboards for various security groups. Agreement dashboard can be configured here as well – by Contract Type and team Role.
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Feature ID: 1158976
  
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Action button configuration allows Administrators to group various related actions available at contract type level to single or multiple groups.
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=== Edit SSRS Reports without customization ===
  
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Based on the configuration, the actions are grouped and rendered during the life cycle of entity making it easier for user to identify and perform the related activities and processes.
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Icertis and partner developers can now edit the SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports eliminating the need to create additional customized reports even for small changes. Users can now make the following edits to SSRS reports:
  
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== ICI Mobile App Enhancement Details ==
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*Add or remove columns in an existing report.
 +
*Modify column’s position, name, or default values.
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*Modify sorting order of the results.
 +
*Apply query level filters.
 +
*Apply security group access as standard reports.
 +
*Create copy of existing report and modify it.
 +
*Use a new framework, which has a JSON-based interface.
 +
*Create new or modify custom reports.
  
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'''1119215 - Text Search Capability in Agreement Document View in iOS'''
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Feature ID: 744814
  
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The ICI Mobile App offers a quick way to engage in contract management conveniently through a smartphone.
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=== Report-based edit access for Power BI reports ===
  
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Without having to scroll through a long document to reach a specific clause, business users looking for a particular word or term in an agreement document can now execute a text search, when using an iPhone.
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Manage access for Power BI reports can now be provided at a report level to ensure that edit access is only given to the necessary users within the organization.<br/> This feature works does not impact “Advanced Analytics” access.<br/> <br/> Feature ID: 1070905
  
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On clicking eye icon on the agreement details screen, a search icon will be displayed. Clicking the search icon, a search field and keypad will be displayed where the user will be able to enter their search terms. Users can then navigate between the search results using the arrow keys.
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=== Maintainance and storage optimization with a Common Data Model for Clause-based reports ===
  
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This enhancement will be available with the upgrade and does not require any further configuration.
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PlatformClause - a common data model for clause related information can now be used to create clause-based reports such as Clause Profiling Report, Clause Pending Approval Report and more. This helps optimize storage capacity and reduces the development and maintenance effort siginificantly.&nbsp;<br/> <br/> Feature ID: 1083685
  
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== AI Applications Enhancement Details ==
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=== SSRS Reports now available with Power BI ===
  
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'''97333 – ACE UX Changes for AI Apps'''
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Power BI reports are faster, more scalable, richer in features, customization-friendly, sport a modern UI and overall a better experience. To leverage its advantages, the following SSRS reports are now made available in Power BI:
  
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The look and feel of the AI Apps has now been upgraded to the modern UX. The complete overhaul of the user interface with new styling gives a fresh and sleek look when working with all AI offerings of ICI.
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*Clause Summary Report
 +
*Tagged Attribute Report
 +
*Agreement Clause Content Report – A widget that displays the clauses with the most deviations is also added in this release.&nbsp;
  
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With this release, a dedicated AI Insights section has been added for AI Discovery and AI Studio, which can be accessed from within an agreement for a comprehensive experience. Also, the discovered entities can now be reviewed from within the agreement Details page.
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Feature IDs: 1214787, 1214720, 1223598<br/> &nbsp;
  
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The clause reviewing experience has been enhanced in line with the new user experience, wherein the review window has been replaced by a drawer.
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== Salesforce Integration&nbsp; ==
  
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Previously, AI Studio capabilities for an agreement were accessible from “Document List” tab on the left navigation pane. Now they have been added under dedicated “AI studio” page under “AI Insights” section.
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=== &nbsp;Activity Object and Trigger Simplification in Salesforce Adapter ===
  
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'''1104114 – Improving clause delineation in DiscoverAI'''
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The following enhancements are made to the SFDC Manage package Adapter:
  
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Clause delineation is an important part of working with exhaustive contract texts where, each paragraph could be part of a typical hierarchy. The distinct visual representation of clauses with sub-sections of clauses displayed in a delineated view where, for example, a clause might be a combination of multiple paragraphs forming one section.
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*Triggers for Accounts and Opportunity objects have been removed from the Managed package to avoid unnecessary update-related issues. Users can get more flexibility and control over them when they use the auto contract creation feature. Note: This is applicable to both fresh installs as well as updates on existing packages.
 +
*Previously, 6 custom fields were needed on the Salesforce activity object to sync ICI tasks with Salesforce, and now, the dependency on these fields have been reduced with only 2 custom fields required for the sync.  
 +
*For customers who didn’t need the ICI task sync feature and were unable to remove the custom fields with the limit of 100 fields on the Activity object, now, these fields have been removed from our managed package to provide more flexibility.  
  
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With this release ICI has significantly improved its clause delineation discovery support for identification of clause boundaries and the clause hierarchy up to 2 levels while delineating the clauses based on clause titles, for all documents in .docx, text .pdf and scanned .pdf formats. The clause delineation support has been extended to documents in languages other than English.
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'''Note:''' Guideline documentation and support by ICI implementation/upgrade team will be duly provided, for creation of desired fields during new installs as well as release upgrades, or deletion of fields during upgrade scenarios.
  
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This service is available automatically for users with DiscoverAI license and no further configuration is required.
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Feature ID: 1066353
  
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'''1104113 – Pre-trained attributes discovery accuracy improvements'''
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=== User Experience for Salesforce Revamped ===
  
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DiscoverAI supports discovery of various attributes in the agreements using pre-trained AI models. In this release, we have imbibed state-of-the-art AI technology in our DiscoverAI engine and improved the accuracy of extracting the pre-trained attributes by more than 20% on an average. This would especially help in expediting new implementations AI Apps.
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Using ICI within Salesforce is now a more seamless experience as we have made significant improvements to preserve the native Salesforce UI interactions, which users are familiar with, without compromising the ICI functionality.
  
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This service is available automatically for users with DiscoverAI license and no further configuration is required.
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These are the enhancements that have been introduced:
  
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== Reports Enhancement Details ==
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*&nbsp;Native Salesforce components are now used along with the ICI iframe.
 +
*Sub-tabs moved from ICI to Salesforce native tabs, for example: Agreements, Requests and Agreement Reports.
 +
*Agreement and Request Details pages are now displayed in native Salesforce UI.
 +
*On the Details page certain actions (example - Reset Expiry) and sub-tabs (example – Associations) are now native Salesforce components.
  
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'''1036791 – Platform Analytics Reports UI and Functional Enhancement'''
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'''Note:''' The implementation team will provide a list of native and i-frame components.
  
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The Platform Analytics Reports user interface (UI) has now been simplified, easy to read with improved user experience. These UI enhancements will help users to get improved experience of the reporting page, by repositioning and realigning tabs and other elements on UI.
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Feature ID: 1186642
  
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This will help the users to visualize and analyze the data within the reports in a better way and arrive at conclusions from the report with ease.
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== eSign Integration&nbsp; ==
  
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With this release, the following enhancements are done:
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=== Integration Support for DocuSign using JWT authentication ===
  
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*The report name is now displayed outside the Power BI window.
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The ICI and DocuSign integration was previously based on authenticating the APIs with “IntegratorKey” and “API Password”.
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*Time zone is displayed along with time stamp.
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*Date/Time fields in the report are displayed as per user’s locale settings.
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*Additional buttons are visible at the top of the report, along with existing power BI buttons present at the bottom of the report to navigate between pages in the report.  
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'''1089207 – Enhancement to CLM Activity Report'''
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The product has now been upgraded to support an enhanced authentication using JSON Web Token (JWT), along with the existing basic authentication support. This enhancement has also enabled JWT support for “Multisign” as well as “Single Esign” configurations.
  
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Previously the CLM Activity Report could be filtered by the Frequency parameter (Day, Week or Month).
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Feature ID: 1000798
  
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With this release, a new filter for Organization Unit has been added. Users can select multiple organization units for a better holistic view to derive the data for CLM activity.
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=== DocuSign API upgraded from 2.0 to 2.1 ===
  
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== Integration Enhancement Details ==
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DocuSign released an update announcement that OAuth 2.0 would be required to support DocuSign API applications. In keeping with this announcement we have upgraded DocuSign REST APIs from 2.0 to 2.1. With this upgrade, a new JSON parser has been introduced to support DocuSign Connect, a notification mechanism to receive updates when any event is triggered in the eSignature workflow.
  
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'''1097956 – Impact of Modern UI on Microsoft Dynamics CRM'''
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Feature ID: 1060689
  
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With this release, ICI is revamping the user interface of within the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales Experience. The ICI functionality will remain as it is; however, the UI look, and feel has been changed which includes the change of buttons, fonts, and colors. The changes also include different UI elements like input elements, headers and so on.&nbsp; All the UI changes are in line with the MS D365 Sales guidelines.
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=== Adapting webhook feature of Adobe Sign ===
  
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The modern UI changes are made to avoid regression for the end-users post upgrade to modern UI. Also, the UI changes are made for the ICI frames loading within the MS D365 Sales which includes the following pages:
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Adobe Sign adapter couldn’t communicate precise callback information to ICI Platform, thus causing intermittent errors in ICM workflow after the Agreements were electronically signed. Adobe Sign responded with the same information for every signature, hence it wasn’t possible to distinguish between callbacks from different signature. However, with the introduction of Adobe webhook, this problem can be resolved.
  
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*Create Contract
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Adobe webhooks can be created on the workflow for each agreement, requesting the type of information in the callback, which further benefits as follows:
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*View Contract
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*Manage Contracts Page
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*Manage Contract Requests Page
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The changes in the layout are done following the MS D365 Sales guidelines, the theme is referred as blue, the title changes match with the MS D365 Sales default titles.
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*Identifying the signatory requesting a callback
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*Identifying for which event or action the callback is requested
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*Concisely updating the status in ICM
  
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'''1097957 – Impact of Modern UI on Icertis Experience for Salesforce'''
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'''Note:'''&nbsp; Upgrade Adobe Sign API from 5.0 to 6.0 to use the webhook feature.
  
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With this release, ICI is revamping the user interface within the Salesforce Lighting experience. The ICI functionality will remain as it is; however, the UI look, and feel has been changed which includes the change of buttons, fonts, and colors. The changes also include different UI elements like input elements, headers and so on.&nbsp; All the UI changes are in line with the Salesforce guidelines.
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Also, Adobe rebranded Echo sign to Adobe Sign, hence non overridden localization strings for validation messages have been modified accordingly.
  
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The modern UI changes are made to avoid regression for the end-users post upgrade to modern UI. Also, the UI changes are made for the ICI frames loading within the Salesforce experience which includes the following pages:
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Feature ID: 1091947
  
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*Create Contract
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=== Electronic Signature support using ICI BioPharma setting for 21 CFR Part 11 & Annex 11 compliant groups ===
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*View Contract
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*Manage Contracts Page
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*Manage Contract Requests Page
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*Global Search Page
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The changes in the layout are done following the Salesforce guidelines. The theme is referred as blue, the title changes match with the Salesforce default titles, breadcrumb changes are done to display Salesforce breadcrumb along with ICI record name.
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ICI Platform now supports the Life Science industry documents that need to comply with 21 CFR Part 11 (for US FDA) or Annex 11 (for EU) regulatory compliance.
  
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== Technical Requirements 8.0 ==
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This feature allows integration with DocuSign Part 11 module and Adobe Sign Bio-Pharma setting to get electronically signed approvals for such agreements.
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Feature ID: 1220095
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=== Changes in IP whitelisting process for eSign adapters ===
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ICI Platform supports integration with third party eSign adapters, which communicate using callback information. To receive the callback data from the eSign servers, certain IPs to intended methods are whitelisted. This action is done through the web.config file. However, any change in the IPs requires modifying the web.config file, which resets the IIS, resulting in performance issues.
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To address this issue, “Core.IPSecurity” key has been introduced, which stores information related to the IPs as a JSON, and thus eliminates the need to modify the web.config file.
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'''Note''': Blocking or allowing IP addresses based on DNS is not supported as a part of this feature.
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Feature ID: 1193062
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=== Update eSign document with correct status ===
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In certain scenarios, the electronic signature status in ICI and eSign provider are inconsistent. An enhancement has been added wherein the respective statuses are verified and the agreement status is updated or corrected accordingly.
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Feature ID: 1193061
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== Sourcing&nbsp; ==
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The 8.1 Release introduces enhancements to the Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) Sourcing Application (SRC8.1.0.404).
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=== Support for new RFx type-RFP ===
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Icertis Sourcing application now supports Requests for Proposals (RFPs). Organizations can leverage the advantages of a secure and seamless application to organize and maintain their procurement processes digitally using the RFP feature.
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RfPs are integrated requests containing information on both questions and bids. Buyers can now design, create, and publish RFPs in the Sourcing application and invite suppliers to respond to them. Once Buyers receive the responses, they can evaluate them and make their procurement decisions.
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Key RFP features:
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*Integrated mechanism to get responses to questions and bids from suppliers.
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*Reusable templates for Questions, Questionnaires, and Bidding templates.
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*Questionnaires and questions can be arranged and reordered as required.&nbsp;
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*Attachments, and responses to questions can be downloaded in a package.
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*A consolidated excel spreadsheet is available to analyse bids and responses.
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*Suppliers can provide responses to questions using Excel as well as Sourcing UI.
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Feature ID: 404602
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=== Improved Sourcing workflow with Sourcing Request ===
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Users within an organization can now create Sourcing Requests for procuring items or services. These requests can be designed to go through an approval flow before they are turned over to procurement teams. The approval cycle can be easily tracked and audited for compliance.
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Sourcing Request features:
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*Configure a Sourcing Request based on the necessary privileges.
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*Request forms can be designed to capture necessary details and attachments.
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*Requests can be sent to designated approvers for approval.
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*An RFx can be created after the request is approved.
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*Requests can be modified until they are approved or a RFX is created based on it.
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*Cancel or recall the Sourcing Request.
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*Put the Sourcing Request on Hold till approved state provided RFx is not created using this Sourcing Request.
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Feature ID: 611297
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=== Ordering and additional data types for Questions in Questionnaire ===
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We have made the following enhancements to Icertis Sourcing to improve the user experience when working with Questions and Questionnaires:
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The order of Questions and questionnaires in RFx can be set and modified as per the preference of users.
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The following data types are now supported for questions in RFx:
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*Boolean
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*String
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*Choice
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*Multi Choice
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*Currency
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*DateTime
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*Number
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*Percentage
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*Text Area
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*Rich Text Area&nbsp;&nbsp;
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*Email
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*File Selection
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'''Note''':
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*On exporting rich text data type information to Excel or HTML, some formatting features may be lost.
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*Uploading a file attachment as response for file type question response using Excel is not supported. Supplier must log on to ICI to upload files.
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Feature ID: 896873
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== Obligation Management&nbsp; ==
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 +
The 8.1 Release introduces enhancements to the Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) Obligation Management Application (OM8.1.0.404).
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=== An interface to quickly add obligations discovered by AI ===
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Obligations that are identified in contracts using the Discover AI feature can now be easily reviewed on the user interface. User can review the obligations and decide to add one or more to the Obligation Management application for tracking approvals and fulfillment.
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The interface to review and create obligations in bulk saves users much time and manual effort.
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The following image shows an example of creating Obligations in bulk:
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<div class="image-green-border">[[File:RN 8.1 30.png|720px|RN 8.1 30.png]]</div>
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Notifications for successfully processed or failed obligations can also be configured.
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Feature ID: 1090383
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=== Auto-approval of Obligations to improve efficiency ===
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Many obligations are extracted from executed contracts and they don’t usually need to go through an approval process in the Obligation Management application. To reduce time and effort spent approving a large number of obligations and not block the obligation fulfillment lifecycle on account of pending approvals, an automatic approval process for obligations can now be configured.
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Once the auto-approval process is defined based on obligation taxonomy, this is how the feature works:
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*If approval is turned off, and no approvers are added to obligations, the obligations are automatically approved.
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*If approvers are added to obligations, manually or automatically through a rule, then even if approvals are turned off, the obligations will need to be approved.
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Feature ID: 519344
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=== Organize and manage obligations by creating groups&nbsp; ===
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An obligations could have one or more sub obligations or tasks, which would need to be completed by different individuals in an organization. Also, some obligations may be related to each other and grouping them could help organize and track the fulfillment. To facilitate such scenarios, obligation groups can now be created in the Obligation Management application.
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Users can now categorize different obligations under logical groups and create parent-child relationships between obligations.
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Child obligations automatically inherit any changes made to the parent Obligation. For example, if the status of parent Obligation is changed to Approved, all the related child Obligations also get approved.
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Feature ID: 649768
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=== Duplicate obligations no longer inherited&nbsp; ===
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When an Agreement (parent), with an associated Obligation, is inherited by another Agreement (peer), a duplicate Obligation is created. An enhancement in this release eliminates this limitation.
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Feature ID: 1040723
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=== UI Improvements for Obligation Management ===
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The following improvements are made in the product to improve the search and usability experience when using Obligation Management:
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*Dedicated index pages for Obligations and Fulfillments,
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*Relevant page titles, breadcrumbs and history page information.
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Feature ID: 1236413
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== Risk Management ==
 +
 
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The 8.1 Release introduces enhancements to the Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) Sourcing Application (RM8.1.0.404).
 +
 
 +
=== UI Improvements for Risk Management&nbsp; ===
 +
 
 +
The following Improvements are made in the product to improve the search and usability experience when using Risk Management:&nbsp;
 +
 
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*Dedicated index pages for Risk Management and Risk Assessment.&nbsp;
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*Relevant page titles, breadcrumbs and history page information.&nbsp;
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*Saved searches display Risk Assessment as category. &nbsp;
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*The “Create” action button has now been added on the “Risk Assessment” index page.&nbsp; &nbsp;
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Other enhancements include:
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*The “Delete” action has now been moved under the three dots icon on the Risk Assessment “Details” page. On deleting the risk assessment, users will be redirected to the Risk Assessment “Index” page.
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Feature ID: 1067718
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== Proposal Management&nbsp; ==
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ICI Proposal Management application is certified to work with the 8.1 release (PM8.1.0.404).&nbsp;
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=== Track and analyse performance with a Power BI Dashboard ===
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A seeded dashboard that helps supplier organizations track their proposals by status, time, and outcome is now available within the Proposal Management application.The following features and reports are now available with the Proposal Management application:
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*A new Power BI data model with Power BI dataset specific to Proposal Management.
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*Proposal Management KPIs report
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*Capture Management report
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'''Note''': Users with access to Sell Side RFx or Bid Proposal can view the Dashboard.
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&nbsp;
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 +
=== Enhancements to Seeded Contract Types ===
 +
 
 +
With this release, the PM App is being enhanced with newly seeded attributes to its seeded contract types.
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In this enhancement:
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*New attributes have been seeded with the Bid Proposal entity:
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*Total Bid Value For Proposal
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*Total Value Won Or Lost
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*Customer Address
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*Customer Geography
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These new attributes contribute in the essential computations of the Win Ratio and the Value Capture Ratio.
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Feature ID: 1186830
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 +
=== Revamped User Experience across the PM App ===
 +
 
 +
The visual look and feel of the Proposal Management App has been considerably enhanced with the ICI-wide implementation of the new UI (User Interface) and UX (User Experience).
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The following summarizes the revamped user experience across the App:
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*The new “Proposals” tile menu now features only the viewing tile options for the seeded PM App entities, in addition to a new “Dashboard” tile menu option.
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*The create navigation flow has been moved from the “Proposals” tile and a dedicated “Create” button has now been added to each seeded entity index page.
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*The seeded entities now have their dedicated index pages, as opposed to the saved search driven listing in previous releases.
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*The Details pages of all the seeded entities (Sell Side RFx, Bid Proposal etc.) now have dedicated page titles starting with the entity name, instead of the contract type category. For example, the previous “Agreement / Sell Side RFx 123” has been replaced by “Sell Side RFx / Sell Side RFx 123”.
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*The newly added entity name (such as “Sell Side RFx”) on the Details page header is now a clickable link, clicking which opens the entity index page.
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*In the audit history of any entity, both Grid View and List View, the header now features the entity category name instead of the contract type, just like the change in entity Details page.
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*The display of action buttons on entity Details pages can now be configured to customize their sequence of display, and based on the available window space the remaining action buttons will be available under the three dots icon on the entity “Details” page.
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Feature ID: 1235186
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== Supplier Relationship Management Application&nbsp; ==
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ICI Proposal Management application is certified to work with the 8.1 release (SRM8.1.0.404).
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=== Supplier Evaluation ===
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The Supplier Evaluation module introduced in the Supplier Relationship Management suite helps organizations manage supplier performance and evaluate and mitigate risks associated with working with suppliers.
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'''How Supplier Evaluation fits within Supplier Relationship Management'''
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The Supplier Evaluation module introduced in the Supplier Relationship Management suite helps organizations manage supplier performance and evaluate and mitigate risks associated with working with suppliers.
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'''How Supplier Evaluation fits within Supplier Relationship Management'''
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Supplier Evaluation module is part of the Supplier Relationship Management application, which is built on Icertis Contract Intelligence.
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Once suppliers are onboarded, users can evaluate suppliers on the products or services they offer. The KPI criteria, schedule, and the evaluators can be set up within the module and on completing the assessment the supplier can be classified as high performing, low performing or standard supplier.
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A routine supplier evaluation can help organizations set expectations from their preferred suppliers and manage low performing suppliers.&nbsp;&nbsp;
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'''Supplier Evaluation Features'''
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Setting up Supplier Evaluation
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*'''KPIs''' – Users can create one or more KPIs (evaluation criteria) and evaluate suppliers based on the set parameters. For example, you can create KPIs for auditing, performance reviews, training requirements, and more.
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*'''Supplier Data''' – The supplier evaluation creation process is simplified as much of the supplier information is auto-populated based on the supplier’s record.
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*'''Evaluation Schedule''' – Users can set up a period for which the supplier will be evaluated.
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*'''Product/Service for Evaluation''' – The evaluation can be performed in context of the product or service provided or the agreements.
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*'''Reviewing suppliers based on the Criteria''' – The evaluation criteria can be put through an internal review process, and inputs can be sought to finalize the evaluation criteria.
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*'''Supplier Outreach''' – Suppliers can provide information and supporting documents needed to perform the evaluation by responding to review requests by buyers.
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*'''Responses & Scoring''' – Based on the responses provided by business team or evaluators on the supplier evaluation, scores are automatically computed.
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*'''Evaluation Approvals & Control''' – Once the evaluation process is over, then buyer team defines supplier performance classification and suggests the next course of action (in case of low performing supplier). This can also be sent for management approval. The approver team can either approve or reject and send it for rework..
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*'''Notifications''' – Notifications can also be configured for periodic evaluation. System notifications are sent to buyers when they are requested to evaluate a supplier.
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Feature ID: 463049
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=== Managing Supplier Hierarchy ===
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'''Manage Related Supplier Organizations'''
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The Supplier Relationship Management application now provides a mechanism to connect supplier organizations with their Parent, Holding or Subsidiary organizations. This is to ensure that you have a complete overview of the business you do with one supplier and its related entities. According to business needs, you may want to work with a local supplier or the parent global organization.
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You can designate a supplier organization as one of the following types:
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*'''Supplier''': Supplier organizations that may or may not have related Parent or Holding companies.
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*'''Parent company''': Parent company of one or more Supplier organizations, controls operations of the Supplier Organization
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*'''Holding company''': Holding company of one or more subsidiary Supplier organizations, does not have a direct say over the operations of subsidiaries.
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Changes made to the supplier hierarchy for supplier registration, qualification or profile are synchronized with the vendor database and supplier master.
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'''Unique Supplier Record Management'''
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In Icertis Supplier Relationship management, the uniqueness of a supplier record is validated based on a combination of attributes . In this release, one or more of the unique identifiers attributes can be made editable. This is to account for entities that may change the Legal Entity Name in the course of doing business, considering legal entity name is one of the unique identifier attributes.
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If the attributes are changed for an organization, the system validates and checks for duplicate records before allowing users to make the change.
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'''Validating the Duplicate Registrations'''
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Buyers may receive more than one registration from the same supplier submitted through the web page.
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This release introduces the capability to match the supplier registration records based on the unique identifier attributes. This helps identifying the duplicate registrations. Buyers can perform limited actions on the duplicate registrations and the supplier qualification is not generated.
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'''Note''': Customers upgrading to 8.1 from previous versions of ICI Supplier Relationship Management is supported.
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Feature ID: 1271423
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== Technical Requirements&nbsp; ==
  
 
The Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) application can be accessed from any device with an Internet connection and a supported browser. All features may not be available in all environments.
 
The Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) application can be accessed from any device with an Internet connection and a supported browser. All features may not be available in all environments.
  
 
The software and hardware requirements for the client system as well as the mobile application are listed in the table below:
 
The software and hardware requirements for the client system as well as the mobile application are listed in the table below:
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'''Important Changes in IE11 Support:'''
 
'''Important Changes in IE11 Support:'''
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“You are using a browser that is not recommended to be used since it no longer supported by its OEM. The ICI support for this browser is limited for 7.16 version and will be discontinued from version 7.17 onwards. You should switch to Microsoft Edge as recommended by the OEM or any other supported browser prescribed by your organizational policy. You may contact your administrator for further information.”
 
“You are using a browser that is not recommended to be used since it no longer supported by its OEM. The ICI support for this browser is limited for 7.16 version and will be discontinued from version 7.17 onwards. You should switch to Microsoft Edge as recommended by the OEM or any other supported browser prescribed by your organizational policy. You may contact your administrator for further information.”
  
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'''Related Topics:'''&nbsp;[[Agreement_Management|Agreement Management]]&nbsp;| [[Association_Management|Association Management]] | [[Compliance_Management|Compliance Management]] | [[Template_Management|Template Management]] | [[Clause_Management|Clause Management]] | [[Configuration|Configuration]] | [[Reports|Reports]]&nbsp;| [[Advanced_Analytics|Advanced Analytics]] | [[User_Administration|User Administration]] | [[ICI_Tools|ICI Tools ]]|&nbsp; [[Icertis_Business_Apps|Icertis Business Apps]] | [[AIML|AIML ]]| [[ICI_Add-ins|ICI Add-ins]] | [[ICI_Mobile_App|ICI Mobile App]] | [[Biz_Apps_Release_Notes|ICI Business Apps Release Notes]]&nbsp;|&nbsp;[[Release_Notes_Versions|Release Notes Versions]]
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== Accessibility Conformance&nbsp; ==
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We ran accessibility conformance tests on the Icertis Contract Intelligence platform and Business Apps for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 for Level A and Level AA standards. We did not evaluate for Level AAA standards.
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While most of the product functionality has at least one method that meets the criterion without any known defects, some functionality of the product may not meet the conformance criteria. The full report is published in the following documents and can be made available on request:
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*ICI Platform Accessibility Conformance Report
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*ICI AI/ML Accessibility Conformance Report
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*ICI Reporting Accessibility Conformance Report
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*ICI Obligation Management Accessibility Conformance Report
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*ICI Sourcing Accessibility Conformance Report
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*ICI Proposal Management Accessibility Conformance Report
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*ICI SRM Accessibility Conformance Report
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*ICI Risk Management Accessibility Conformance Report
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&nbsp;'''Related Topics:'''&nbsp;[[Agreement_Management|Agreement Management]]&nbsp;| [[Associations|Association Management]] | [[Compliances|Compliance Management]] | [[Templates|Template Management]] | [[Clauses|Clause Management]] | [[Configure|Configuration]] | [[Reports|Reports]]&nbsp;| [[Advanced_Analytics|Advanced Analytics]] | [[User_Administration|User Administration]] | [[ICI_Tools|ICI Tools ]]|&nbsp; [[Icertis_Business_Apps|Icertis Business Apps]] | [[AIML|AIML ]]| [[ICI_Add-ins|ICI Add-ins]] | [[ICI_Mobile_App|ICI Mobile App]]&nbsp;

Latest revision as of 08:35, 25 June 2022

Contents

ICI Release Notes - Release 8.1

Release 8.1 New Features

These release notes provide an overview of the enhancements to ICI, the ICI experience for integrations, and so on.

•      Refer to the Technical Requirements for the release in this document.

•      Refer to the Wiki documentation (also found in your ICI help section) for details on all ICI features and functionalities.

The 8.1 Release introduces the following enhancements to the Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) platform:

Icertis Contract Intelligence 

Agreement & Platform 

A new collaboration experience with Microsoft Teams

ICI now leverages the powerful capabilities of Microsoft Teams to help internal teams collaborate on contract creation workflow and expediting the contracting lifecycle. The Teams integrations will help customers to use a single communication system and discussions can be held in context of the agreement.

The feature includes:

  • Contract owner can initiate a collaboration on MS teams from agreement details page and also invite agreement team members to participate in the discussion.
  • The latest version of the agreement document is also made available on the teams channel while initiating the collaboration. Participants can review, redline the agreement document in MS teams and publish the edited document back to ICI as a new version.
  • The documents associated with main agreement in ICI can also referenced in MS teams channel

Feature ID: 1188391

Negotiate and Update Agreements with the new Outlook Add-in

The new Outlook Add-in connects users’ emails with Icertis Contract Intelligence and provides improved collaboration capabilities and ensures information sent on emails is tracked for audit and governance on ICI. In addition, the new add-in provides a better interaction design, in line with the modern ACE user experience released in version 8.0.

The Add-in for Microsoft Outlook Desktop is supported on Windows and Mac OS. Once installed, an Icertis Experience for Outlook pane is accessible from Outlook. The pane provides access to ICI agreement data, along with success and error messaging for interactions. It can be pinned on the interface for easy access.

With the Outlook Add-in improvements, users can now do the following:

  • Add attached documents in emails as associations or a new agreement version in ICI.
  • Preview Agreement and Association documents from the Outlook Add-in.
  • Drag-and-drop single or multiple emails as associations.
  • Replace existing associated document with a new email or email attachment.
  • Access agreements and associated documents from the Outlook plugin and email them attachments to reviewers or approvers any stakeholders.
  • New incoming messages for email threads marked as associated documents are automatically added as new associated documents. 

Feature IDs: 1137119, 1137121

Quick & Easy Agreement Creation

Agreement Contract Types now come with a Quick Creation option. For all agreements using this option, users can fill all the necessary information on a single page and publish the contract or send it for approval immediately.

Feature ID: 1183356

More Quick Action Options

The Quick Actions widget “What would you like to do” has been enhanced to provide multiple actions/links with one quick action line item. For example, “Create MSA” quick action now provides multiple links catering to “Own” and “Third Party” paper selections, as displayed in the image below.

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Feature ID: 1183310

External Emails Split to Ensure Compliance 

Contracts sent for review or approval by email to other parties, legal consultants and users not within ICI are now split in two parts. A URL and passcode can be shared with the users and the review can be done completely online. No need of downloading and attaching documents and tracking versions offline. The process is quick, secure and easy to audit.
Two emails are sent, One email is sent containing the agreement URL and the other with the passcode to access the URL. This method could be used for requesting reviews, reviews and approval.

Users can also resend the notification to external users whose reviews are pending, with the help of the “Resend Passcode Notification” button.

To enable this feature, the implementation team needs to configure it explicitly. 

Feature ID: 1216716 

Deviation management for text and tables outside content control

If changes are made to the plain text in agreements or tables in associations of an agreement document (text which is not a clause or attribute), a deviation can now be triggered to help Legal teams exercise greater content control. The changes are highlighted and the deviations will flow through an approval process.

Feature ID: 1183384 

Support for Microsoft Powerpoint documents

ICI now supports Microsoft Powerpoint file formats (files with .ppt and .pptx extension) as third-party paper agreement file formats. In addition to PDF and DOCX file formats, users can now create and negotiate contracts using PPT and PPTX files.

Feature ID: 1183367

Online Editing Of Own Paper

In this release, ICI is enhancing its existing online editing feature  by supporting online editing of own paper documents. using Microsoft WOPI.We have improved the experience for editing agreements with Microsoft Online applications In this release.

The following improvements can be observed:

  • Documents with editable content control can be edited and and values are is synced seamlessly.
  • The track changes option will now track all the changes made by the users in reviewing mode, creating a redlined version of the document.
  • The empty content control will be displayed as blank instead of “obj”.
  • The content controls within tables can now be edited with associations tagged as tables and saved searches.Content controls within tables will now be editable. 

Feature ID: 1287270 

Support for Inheritance of Bulk Associations 

In addition to attributes and associations, now bulk associations contract types (BACT) and their extension attributes can now be inherited from parent to child agreements. 

The agreements with BACT associations will get inherited asynchronously along with all extension attributes of all the associations. The bulk associations will also work as they do in parent agreements.

Feature ID: 1278205 

Enhancement to Download all Agreement & Associated Documents in one click  

With this release, we have expanded on the Download all capability which allowed users can to download the agreement and itsall associated documents in one click saving much time and effort. 

This functionality was earlier available when the signature type for the agreement was set to manual, it is now available for electronic and hybrid signature types as well.

Additionally, the “Download All” button will now be visible to users based on the role action mapping in superseded state as well. 

Feature ID: 980342 

Platform changes to enhance UX for Business Applications

To improve findability and relevance of information pertaining to a particular business application, some configuration changes are now available in the platform. These changes significantly improve the search and usability experience when working with Agreements, Associations or any Business Application.

The following configurations are now supported:

  • Business Applications have dedicated index pages, where users can search for the information pertaining to the specific business application.
  • Agreements and Associations index pages do not show information from Business Applications.
  • On the Advanced Search page, users have a choice to search for information from Agreements or specific business applications.
  • Left navigation of a business application entity page can be configured to show the relevant links.
  • Results for global search are categorized by the business application name if they are not Agreements or Associations.
  • When creating a Contract Type, seeded attributes only relevant to the Business Application Type and Category can be seededwill be selected.

Feature ID: 1183274 

Self-Service

Introduction of a Technical Admin user to access the System Configuration on Self Service Portal

With the risk of inaccuracies in technical configurations, given their critical importance, such configurations have been, till now, hosted outside the confines of ICI, where ICI admin users, who have azure subscriptions to an instance, authored the process.

Therefore, the capability of admin users within ICI were being limited and the scope of technical configurations had to be expanded.

Now, a solution has been devised with this feature, as enunciated in the following:

  • Technical Administrators can now be configured/added for performing required technical configurations in the System Configuration Portal, using the new “Technical Roles” field while adding, provisioning or editing a user.

Note: The user has to be Internal in order to be authorized with “Technical Roles”, and selecting an external user will automatically discount the Technical Roles feature.

  • The portal has been upgraded for Technical Admin users, with enhancements to the Landing page, header, menu options, along with a static welcome message.
  • Appropriate messaging and communication will be provided for any negative scenarios, wherein the Technical Admin User faces any challenge accessing or configuring.
  • When a new ICI admin user logs in, they should be able to setup other internal users as technical admin users of the System Configuration portal. 

Note: Only the ICI Admin user should be able to setup other internal provisioned users as the Technical Admin user.

  • The ICI Admin can either create a new Security group, as required, or use an existing security group. 
  • The authorization of technical admin users will depend on Security Groups Privilege to the “Self Service” privilege entity, and on roles assigned to specific users.
  • The “Self Service” privilege can be configured in the backend and it will be visible to users under the Security Group Privilege tab.
  • The “Manage” access option can be selected to grant access to the System Configuration Portal for technical admin users.

Note: The user who gets Technical Admin privileges can be any internal provisioned user on that instance (even a non admin user).

Feature ID: 1210894

Building the Config Key Update utility as part of the System Configuration on Self Service Portal

Today, in ICI – There are close to 800 configuration keys in the system. These keys are managed via the ICM Tools which is hosted outside of ICI. With this initiative, we have started the migration these Keys incrementally to be part of the System Configuration – Self Service Portal. 

The scope for this release is to migrate 10 keys into the utility. The access to this utility is driven by the Technical Admin role as explained in the previous section. 

Once the user successfully enters the ‘System Configuration – Self Service’ portal with the correct security groups and technical admin role, they will be able to see the ‘Config Key Updates’ entry point at the top of the screen

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On clicking the Config Key Updates menu, the user will be able to see the utility where the defined 10 keys will be loaded on the screen, along with their existing values.

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The user will be able to view each key loaded into a card. The card will contain the name of the key along with it’s value. 

The user will be able to see a dedication section to the right of the page for viewing help information

The user will be able to click on the ‘3-dot’ option on each card to edit the value of the key

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On clicking the Edit option, the key information will be loaded in the right drawer panel. Here the user can edit the key value and Save using the button at the bottom of the drawer

 

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The user can edit one or more keys using the ‘3-dot’ option on each card. Once the user has finished editing all the keys, they need to click on the ‘PUSH CHANGES TO ICI’ button at the top of the grid. This will internally update the keys with the edited values in ICI for the changes to take effect

 

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Feature ID: 1180864

Administration & Configuration 

Quick Configuration with ICI Import Solution

The ICI Import Solution is an automated solution for configuring ICI entities. It simplifies the initial configuration process and reduces the time and complexities involved in the process.

Using the Import Solution tool, ICI users can now:

  • Import configurations from a source ICI instance to a target ICI Instance with no pre-existing configuration data.
  • Import configurations between different versions of ICI.

Note: Support will be provided for up to 2 releases preceding the target ICI version.

  • Register and publish preconfigured import solutions.
  • Import the following information:
  • Contract Types
  • Templates
  • Clauses
  • Rules
  • Notifications
  • Masterdata Instances
  • Seeded Masterdata entity instances
  • Users & User Groups
  • Security Groups

Feature ID: 1262996 

Contract Types can now be locked for editing 

Contract types can now be edited by only one user at a time. This functionality helps prevent data inconsistencies or concurrency errors.

Product enhancements include:

  • A Lock/Unlock button on the contract type page. 
  • Auto system lock when users start edit a contract type without locking it. 
  • Messaging providing information on who is editing the contract type. 
  • System locks get released when contract types are saved.

Feature ID: 1212463 

Enhancements to Legacy Upload Tool

The following features will be added to the Legacy Upload utility with this release, improving speed and accuracy and reducing file size.

  • Records bypass workflow states directly to the desired state. 
  • Users can schedule upload in batches within guardrails to improve system resource allocation. 
  • Specific range of records from the UI can now be uploaded.
  • Infra and Elastic Search health check can be run before executing the scheduled batches.
  • On demand batch scheduling based on the user provided schedule. 
  • Supporting legacy entity created with large files 100MB+.

Feature ID: 1069763

Unique clause and template code for every environment

Users can now customize their clause and template codes for different instances. If unique codes are used, it reduces errors when migrating data from one instance to another. It also simplifies searching of clauses and templates.

Feature ID: 938126

Template and Clause creation options in Microsoft Word

The Create Template and Create Clause options in the Icertis Experience for Word are only displayed to users with access to these features. Earlier an error message was displayed to users without access and resulted in an unsatisfactory experience.

Feature ID: 1187041

Show or Hide confirmation messages in Microsoft Word 

Administrators can now choose to show or hide certain confirmation messages, as per the organization's preference, on the Icertis Experience for Word.

Feature ID: 1187044

Technology Updates

ServiceBus upgraded to Azure.Messaging.ServiceBus

“Azure.Messaging.ServiceBus” is now replacing “Microsoft.ServiceBus”.  

This is a Microsoft recommended upgrade and provides the following improvements:

  • Up-to-date, streamlined Azure.
  • More accurate messaging without any anomaly or junk data in the message characters.


Feature ID: 940871

Authentication Library and Graph API update

Microsoft has announced* deprecation of the Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Authentication Library (ADAL) and Azure AD Graph API libraries and recommends using Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) and Microsoft Graph API.

We have updated Microsoft Graph, Identity and Key Vault packages to include stability and security fixes from Microsoft. The migration from ADAL and Azure AD Graph API to MSAL and Microsoft Graph API will ensure continuing support for the following areas:

  • User Provisioning 
  • Bulk Action 
  • Integration - SFDC, GIF (Generic Integration Framework), MSCRM  
  • Reporting 
  • Key Vault 

Refer to the following link for Microsoft’s circular: Update your applications to use Microsoft Authentication Library and Microsoft Graph API - Microsoft Tech Community.

Feature ID: 1276938

API Enhancements

In this release we focused on providing API 2.0 versions of most of our APIs with a goal to improve the performance and overall usability.

Following APIs are upgraded to API 2.0 versions in this release:

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API Deprecations

Any integrations utilizing the deprecated APIs must adopt alternate APIs. Previously, API endpoints have been periodically deprecated and alternate APIs have been provisioned.

However, no existing API endpoints have been deprecated in the 8.1 Release. To check previously deprecated endpoints, refer to 7.16 Release Notes. More details on the alternate APIs are available in the Swagger documentation.

Mobile App Update 

Improved Security on Mobile Devices with SafetyNet Attestation API

With this release, ICI is implementing SafetyNet Attestation API for Android mobile application to restrict users from accessing the application through rooted/vulnerable device, to avoid breaching of the IT and cyber security policy.

Note: The SafetyNet Attestation API is supported Android version 8.0 onwards.

Feature ID: 1095223

AI Applications 

Usually, the implementation team spends a lot of time analyzing and training the AI model for the discovery of the new attributes. With this release, ICI is extending the number of pre-trained attributes so that the AI apps implementation project can be expedited. ICI previously had added 23 out-of-the-box attributes and introducing 15 additional attributes in this release, making it a total of 38 new attributes as a part pre-trained model. Customers can now start using attributes from pre-trained model with no or very little retraining.

The additional attributes are:

  • Acceptance Completion Period
  • Breach Cure Period
  • Confidentiality Survival Period
  • Force Majeure Period
  • Interest Percentage on Payment Delay
  • Liquidated Damages Cap
  • Policy changes notice period
  • Records Retention Period
  • Renewal notice period
  • Signatory Name
  • Signatory Title
  • Signature Date
  • Termination for cause notice period
  • Termination for convenience notice period
  • Warranty Claim Period

Feature ID: 1187824

Enhancing the scope of DiscoverAI app& Negotiate AI differentiation

Discover AI helps users to identify attributes and clauses in browser and save them in the system.

With this release, scope of DiscoverAI has been enhanced to include the discovery of attributes and clauses within Microsoft word also using Icertis Experience for Word plugin. 

  • The following actions/functionalities will be available under the Discover AI license in Icertis experience for Word: 
  • Discovery of attributes and clauses. 
  • Confirm, Confirm with Deviation, Ignore, Compare and Replace the clauses based on discovered clauses data. 
  • Select the Matched Clause from the library. 

Feature ID: 1284012

Reports Enhancements

Data for agreements awaiting signature in reports

Out-of-the-box ICI reports will now display details for the business status “Waiting for Signature”, in addition to existing statuses. This update to the reporting logic resolves an existing gap in the reports data.

This enhancement applies to the following reports:

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Feature ID: 1071182

Custom reporting views using JSON 

Developers can now create new custom reports views using Stored Procedures (SP) and JSON files. This feature gives flexibility to organizations to easily develop new reports relevant to their business requirements.

An Import SP is now available that takes JSON files as input. The JSON file used for input is where developers can define the new view. New reporting views are automatically created on running the Import SP.

An Export SP is also provided, which can be used to download a JSON file which contains the structure of an existing view in the database, to use as a template to create a new views.

Feature ID: 1208472

Dataset and seeded dashboard for Proposal Management application

A dedicated Power BI Dataset is now available for the Proposal Management application for out-of-the-box and custom reporting.  

PM App Power BI report will have clickable links to ICI entity details page for Proposal Management Entities such as, Sell Side RFx, RFx Qualification, and Bid Proposal.

Feature ID: 1232650

Attribute Information Report Enhancements

The following filters and columns are added to the Attribute Information report giving more options to analyse the Attributes used in the system.

  • Filters: Contract Type, and Group by Property Columns: Is Mandatory and Tracking Attribute

Feature ID: 1158976

Edit SSRS Reports without customization

Icertis and partner developers can now edit the SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports eliminating the need to create additional customized reports even for small changes. Users can now make the following edits to SSRS reports:

  • Add or remove columns in an existing report.
  • Modify column’s position, name, or default values.
  • Modify sorting order of the results.
  • Apply query level filters.
  • Apply security group access as standard reports.
  • Create copy of existing report and modify it.
  • Use a new framework, which has a JSON-based interface.
  • Create new or modify custom reports.

Feature ID: 744814

Report-based edit access for Power BI reports

Manage access for Power BI reports can now be provided at a report level to ensure that edit access is only given to the necessary users within the organization.
This feature works does not impact “Advanced Analytics” access.

Feature ID: 1070905

Maintainance and storage optimization with a Common Data Model for Clause-based reports

PlatformClause - a common data model for clause related information can now be used to create clause-based reports such as Clause Profiling Report, Clause Pending Approval Report and more. This helps optimize storage capacity and reduces the development and maintenance effort siginificantly. 

Feature ID: 1083685

SSRS Reports now available with Power BI

Power BI reports are faster, more scalable, richer in features, customization-friendly, sport a modern UI and overall a better experience. To leverage its advantages, the following SSRS reports are now made available in Power BI:

  • Clause Summary Report
  • Tagged Attribute Report
  • Agreement Clause Content Report – A widget that displays the clauses with the most deviations is also added in this release. 

Feature IDs: 1214787, 1214720, 1223598
 

Salesforce Integration 

 Activity Object and Trigger Simplification in Salesforce Adapter

The following enhancements are made to the SFDC Manage package Adapter:

  • Triggers for Accounts and Opportunity objects have been removed from the Managed package to avoid unnecessary update-related issues. Users can get more flexibility and control over them when they use the auto contract creation feature. Note: This is applicable to both fresh installs as well as updates on existing packages.
  • Previously, 6 custom fields were needed on the Salesforce activity object to sync ICI tasks with Salesforce, and now, the dependency on these fields have been reduced with only 2 custom fields required for the sync.
  • For customers who didn’t need the ICI task sync feature and were unable to remove the custom fields with the limit of 100 fields on the Activity object, now, these fields have been removed from our managed package to provide more flexibility.

Note: Guideline documentation and support by ICI implementation/upgrade team will be duly provided, for creation of desired fields during new installs as well as release upgrades, or deletion of fields during upgrade scenarios.

Feature ID: 1066353

User Experience for Salesforce Revamped

Using ICI within Salesforce is now a more seamless experience as we have made significant improvements to preserve the native Salesforce UI interactions, which users are familiar with, without compromising the ICI functionality.

These are the enhancements that have been introduced:

  •  Native Salesforce components are now used along with the ICI iframe.
  • Sub-tabs moved from ICI to Salesforce native tabs, for example: Agreements, Requests and Agreement Reports.
  • Agreement and Request Details pages are now displayed in native Salesforce UI.
  • On the Details page certain actions (example - Reset Expiry) and sub-tabs (example – Associations) are now native Salesforce components.

Note: The implementation team will provide a list of native and i-frame components.

Feature ID: 1186642

eSign Integration 

Integration Support for DocuSign using JWT authentication

The ICI and DocuSign integration was previously based on authenticating the APIs with “IntegratorKey” and “API Password”.

The product has now been upgraded to support an enhanced authentication using JSON Web Token (JWT), along with the existing basic authentication support. This enhancement has also enabled JWT support for “Multisign” as well as “Single Esign” configurations.

Feature ID: 1000798

DocuSign API upgraded from 2.0 to 2.1

DocuSign released an update announcement that OAuth 2.0 would be required to support DocuSign API applications. In keeping with this announcement we have upgraded DocuSign REST APIs from 2.0 to 2.1. With this upgrade, a new JSON parser has been introduced to support DocuSign Connect, a notification mechanism to receive updates when any event is triggered in the eSignature workflow.

Feature ID: 1060689

Adapting webhook feature of Adobe Sign

Adobe Sign adapter couldn’t communicate precise callback information to ICI Platform, thus causing intermittent errors in ICM workflow after the Agreements were electronically signed. Adobe Sign responded with the same information for every signature, hence it wasn’t possible to distinguish between callbacks from different signature. However, with the introduction of Adobe webhook, this problem can be resolved.

Adobe webhooks can be created on the workflow for each agreement, requesting the type of information in the callback, which further benefits as follows:

  • Identifying the signatory requesting a callback
  • Identifying for which event or action the callback is requested
  • Concisely updating the status in ICM

Note:  Upgrade Adobe Sign API from 5.0 to 6.0 to use the webhook feature.

Also, Adobe rebranded Echo sign to Adobe Sign, hence non overridden localization strings for validation messages have been modified accordingly.

Feature ID: 1091947

Electronic Signature support using ICI BioPharma setting for 21 CFR Part 11 & Annex 11 compliant groups

ICI Platform now supports the Life Science industry documents that need to comply with 21 CFR Part 11 (for US FDA) or Annex 11 (for EU) regulatory compliance.

This feature allows integration with DocuSign Part 11 module and Adobe Sign Bio-Pharma setting to get electronically signed approvals for such agreements.

Feature ID: 1220095

Changes in IP whitelisting process for eSign adapters

ICI Platform supports integration with third party eSign adapters, which communicate using callback information. To receive the callback data from the eSign servers, certain IPs to intended methods are whitelisted. This action is done through the web.config file. However, any change in the IPs requires modifying the web.config file, which resets the IIS, resulting in performance issues.

To address this issue, “Core.IPSecurity” key has been introduced, which stores information related to the IPs as a JSON, and thus eliminates the need to modify the web.config file.

Note: Blocking or allowing IP addresses based on DNS is not supported as a part of this feature.

Feature ID: 1193062

Update eSign document with correct status

In certain scenarios, the electronic signature status in ICI and eSign provider are inconsistent. An enhancement has been added wherein the respective statuses are verified and the agreement status is updated or corrected accordingly.

Feature ID: 1193061

Sourcing 

The 8.1 Release introduces enhancements to the Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) Sourcing Application (SRC8.1.0.404).

Support for new RFx type-RFP

Icertis Sourcing application now supports Requests for Proposals (RFPs). Organizations can leverage the advantages of a secure and seamless application to organize and maintain their procurement processes digitally using the RFP feature.

RfPs are integrated requests containing information on both questions and bids. Buyers can now design, create, and publish RFPs in the Sourcing application and invite suppliers to respond to them. Once Buyers receive the responses, they can evaluate them and make their procurement decisions.

Key RFP features:

  • Integrated mechanism to get responses to questions and bids from suppliers.
  • Reusable templates for Questions, Questionnaires, and Bidding templates.
  • Questionnaires and questions can be arranged and reordered as required. 
  • Attachments, and responses to questions can be downloaded in a package.
  • A consolidated excel spreadsheet is available to analyse bids and responses.
  • Suppliers can provide responses to questions using Excel as well as Sourcing UI.

Feature ID: 404602

Improved Sourcing workflow with Sourcing Request

Users within an organization can now create Sourcing Requests for procuring items or services. These requests can be designed to go through an approval flow before they are turned over to procurement teams. The approval cycle can be easily tracked and audited for compliance.

Sourcing Request features:

  • Configure a Sourcing Request based on the necessary privileges.
  • Request forms can be designed to capture necessary details and attachments.
  • Requests can be sent to designated approvers for approval.
  • An RFx can be created after the request is approved.
  • Requests can be modified until they are approved or a RFX is created based on it.
  • Cancel or recall the Sourcing Request.
  • Put the Sourcing Request on Hold till approved state provided RFx is not created using this Sourcing Request.

Feature ID: 611297

Ordering and additional data types for Questions in Questionnaire

We have made the following enhancements to Icertis Sourcing to improve the user experience when working with Questions and Questionnaires:

The order of Questions and questionnaires in RFx can be set and modified as per the preference of users.

The following data types are now supported for questions in RFx:

  • Boolean
  • String
  • Choice
  • Multi Choice
  • Currency
  • DateTime
  • Number
  • Percentage
  • Text Area
  • Rich Text Area  
  • Email
  • File Selection

Note:

  • On exporting rich text data type information to Excel or HTML, some formatting features may be lost.
  • Uploading a file attachment as response for file type question response using Excel is not supported. Supplier must log on to ICI to upload files.

Feature ID: 896873

Obligation Management 

The 8.1 Release introduces enhancements to the Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) Obligation Management Application (OM8.1.0.404).

An interface to quickly add obligations discovered by AI

Obligations that are identified in contracts using the Discover AI feature can now be easily reviewed on the user interface. User can review the obligations and decide to add one or more to the Obligation Management application for tracking approvals and fulfillment.

The interface to review and create obligations in bulk saves users much time and manual effort.

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Notifications for successfully processed or failed obligations can also be configured.

Feature ID: 1090383

Auto-approval of Obligations to improve efficiency

Many obligations are extracted from executed contracts and they don’t usually need to go through an approval process in the Obligation Management application. To reduce time and effort spent approving a large number of obligations and not block the obligation fulfillment lifecycle on account of pending approvals, an automatic approval process for obligations can now be configured.

Once the auto-approval process is defined based on obligation taxonomy, this is how the feature works:

  • If approval is turned off, and no approvers are added to obligations, the obligations are automatically approved.
  • If approvers are added to obligations, manually or automatically through a rule, then even if approvals are turned off, the obligations will need to be approved.

Feature ID: 519344

Organize and manage obligations by creating groups 

An obligations could have one or more sub obligations or tasks, which would need to be completed by different individuals in an organization. Also, some obligations may be related to each other and grouping them could help organize and track the fulfillment. To facilitate such scenarios, obligation groups can now be created in the Obligation Management application.

Users can now categorize different obligations under logical groups and create parent-child relationships between obligations.

Child obligations automatically inherit any changes made to the parent Obligation. For example, if the status of parent Obligation is changed to Approved, all the related child Obligations also get approved.

Feature ID: 649768

Duplicate obligations no longer inherited 

When an Agreement (parent), with an associated Obligation, is inherited by another Agreement (peer), a duplicate Obligation is created. An enhancement in this release eliminates this limitation.

Feature ID: 1040723

UI Improvements for Obligation Management

The following improvements are made in the product to improve the search and usability experience when using Obligation Management:

  • Dedicated index pages for Obligations and Fulfillments,
  • Relevant page titles, breadcrumbs and history page information.

Feature ID: 1236413

Risk Management

The 8.1 Release introduces enhancements to the Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) Sourcing Application (RM8.1.0.404).

UI Improvements for Risk Management 

The following Improvements are made in the product to improve the search and usability experience when using Risk Management: 

  • Dedicated index pages for Risk Management and Risk Assessment. 
  • Relevant page titles, breadcrumbs and history page information. 
  • Saved searches display Risk Assessment as category.  
  • The “Create” action button has now been added on the “Risk Assessment” index page.   
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Other enhancements include:

  • The “Delete” action has now been moved under the three dots icon on the Risk Assessment “Details” page. On deleting the risk assessment, users will be redirected to the Risk Assessment “Index” page.

Feature ID: 1067718

Proposal Management 

ICI Proposal Management application is certified to work with the 8.1 release (PM8.1.0.404). 

Track and analyse performance with a Power BI Dashboard

A seeded dashboard that helps supplier organizations track their proposals by status, time, and outcome is now available within the Proposal Management application.The following features and reports are now available with the Proposal Management application:

  • A new Power BI data model with Power BI dataset specific to Proposal Management.
  • Proposal Management KPIs report
  • Capture Management report

Note: Users with access to Sell Side RFx or Bid Proposal can view the Dashboard.

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Enhancements to Seeded Contract Types

With this release, the PM App is being enhanced with newly seeded attributes to its seeded contract types.

In this enhancement:

  • New attributes have been seeded with the Bid Proposal entity:
  • Total Bid Value For Proposal
  • Total Value Won Or Lost
  • Customer Address
  • Customer Geography

These new attributes contribute in the essential computations of the Win Ratio and the Value Capture Ratio.

Feature ID: 1186830

Revamped User Experience across the PM App

The visual look and feel of the Proposal Management App has been considerably enhanced with the ICI-wide implementation of the new UI (User Interface) and UX (User Experience).

The following summarizes the revamped user experience across the App:

  • The new “Proposals” tile menu now features only the viewing tile options for the seeded PM App entities, in addition to a new “Dashboard” tile menu option.
  • The create navigation flow has been moved from the “Proposals” tile and a dedicated “Create” button has now been added to each seeded entity index page.
  • The seeded entities now have their dedicated index pages, as opposed to the saved search driven listing in previous releases.
  • The Details pages of all the seeded entities (Sell Side RFx, Bid Proposal etc.) now have dedicated page titles starting with the entity name, instead of the contract type category. For example, the previous “Agreement / Sell Side RFx 123” has been replaced by “Sell Side RFx / Sell Side RFx 123”.
  • The newly added entity name (such as “Sell Side RFx”) on the Details page header is now a clickable link, clicking which opens the entity index page.
  • In the audit history of any entity, both Grid View and List View, the header now features the entity category name instead of the contract type, just like the change in entity Details page.
  • The display of action buttons on entity Details pages can now be configured to customize their sequence of display, and based on the available window space the remaining action buttons will be available under the three dots icon on the entity “Details” page.

Feature ID: 1235186

Supplier Relationship Management Application 

ICI Proposal Management application is certified to work with the 8.1 release (SRM8.1.0.404).

Supplier Evaluation

The Supplier Evaluation module introduced in the Supplier Relationship Management suite helps organizations manage supplier performance and evaluate and mitigate risks associated with working with suppliers.

How Supplier Evaluation fits within Supplier Relationship Management

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The Supplier Evaluation module introduced in the Supplier Relationship Management suite helps organizations manage supplier performance and evaluate and mitigate risks associated with working with suppliers.

How Supplier Evaluation fits within Supplier Relationship Management

 

Supplier Evaluation module is part of the Supplier Relationship Management application, which is built on Icertis Contract Intelligence.

Once suppliers are onboarded, users can evaluate suppliers on the products or services they offer. The KPI criteria, schedule, and the evaluators can be set up within the module and on completing the assessment the supplier can be classified as high performing, low performing or standard supplier.

A routine supplier evaluation can help organizations set expectations from their preferred suppliers and manage low performing suppliers.  

Supplier Evaluation Features

Setting up Supplier Evaluation

  • KPIs – Users can create one or more KPIs (evaluation criteria) and evaluate suppliers based on the set parameters. For example, you can create KPIs for auditing, performance reviews, training requirements, and more.
  • Supplier Data – The supplier evaluation creation process is simplified as much of the supplier information is auto-populated based on the supplier’s record.
  • Evaluation Schedule – Users can set up a period for which the supplier will be evaluated.
  • Product/Service for Evaluation – The evaluation can be performed in context of the product or service provided or the agreements.
  • Reviewing suppliers based on the Criteria – The evaluation criteria can be put through an internal review process, and inputs can be sought to finalize the evaluation criteria.
  • Supplier Outreach – Suppliers can provide information and supporting documents needed to perform the evaluation by responding to review requests by buyers.
  • Responses & Scoring – Based on the responses provided by business team or evaluators on the supplier evaluation, scores are automatically computed.
  • Evaluation Approvals & Control – Once the evaluation process is over, then buyer team defines supplier performance classification and suggests the next course of action (in case of low performing supplier). This can also be sent for management approval. The approver team can either approve or reject and send it for rework..
  • Notifications – Notifications can also be configured for periodic evaluation. System notifications are sent to buyers when they are requested to evaluate a supplier.

Feature ID: 463049

Managing Supplier Hierarchy

Manage Related Supplier Organizations

The Supplier Relationship Management application now provides a mechanism to connect supplier organizations with their Parent, Holding or Subsidiary organizations. This is to ensure that you have a complete overview of the business you do with one supplier and its related entities. According to business needs, you may want to work with a local supplier or the parent global organization.

You can designate a supplier organization as one of the following types:

  • Supplier: Supplier organizations that may or may not have related Parent or Holding companies.
  • Parent company: Parent company of one or more Supplier organizations, controls operations of the Supplier Organization
  • Holding company: Holding company of one or more subsidiary Supplier organizations, does not have a direct say over the operations of subsidiaries.

Changes made to the supplier hierarchy for supplier registration, qualification or profile are synchronized with the vendor database and supplier master.

Unique Supplier Record Management

In Icertis Supplier Relationship management, the uniqueness of a supplier record is validated based on a combination of attributes . In this release, one or more of the unique identifiers attributes can be made editable. This is to account for entities that may change the Legal Entity Name in the course of doing business, considering legal entity name is one of the unique identifier attributes.

If the attributes are changed for an organization, the system validates and checks for duplicate records before allowing users to make the change.

Validating the Duplicate Registrations

Buyers may receive more than one registration from the same supplier submitted through the web page.

This release introduces the capability to match the supplier registration records based on the unique identifier attributes. This helps identifying the duplicate registrations. Buyers can perform limited actions on the duplicate registrations and the supplier qualification is not generated.

Note: Customers upgrading to 8.1 from previous versions of ICI Supplier Relationship Management is supported.

Feature ID: 1271423

Technical Requirements 

The Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) application can be accessed from any device with an Internet connection and a supported browser. All features may not be available in all environments.

The software and hardware requirements for the client system as well as the mobile application are listed in the table below:

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Important Changes in IE11 Support:

From March 2021, Microsoft has stopped its technical support to Internet Explorer (IE) and has advised its customers to move to Microsoft Edge.

ICI will no longer support IE11. ICI will not be certified over IE11.

If customers use IE 11 then the below message will be displayed:

“You are using a browser that is not recommended to be used since it no longer supported by its OEM. The ICI support for this browser is limited for 7.16 version and will be discontinued from version 7.17 onwards. You should switch to Microsoft Edge as recommended by the OEM or any other supported browser prescribed by your organizational policy. You may contact your administrator for further information.”

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Accessibility Conformance 

We ran accessibility conformance tests on the Icertis Contract Intelligence platform and Business Apps for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 for Level A and Level AA standards. We did not evaluate for Level AAA standards.

While most of the product functionality has at least one method that meets the criterion without any known defects, some functionality of the product may not meet the conformance criteria. The full report is published in the following documents and can be made available on request:

  • ICI Platform Accessibility Conformance Report
  • ICI AI/ML Accessibility Conformance Report
  • ICI Reporting Accessibility Conformance Report
  • ICI Obligation Management Accessibility Conformance Report
  • ICI Sourcing Accessibility Conformance Report
  • ICI Proposal Management Accessibility Conformance Report
  • ICI SRM Accessibility Conformance Report
  • ICI Risk Management Accessibility Conformance Report

Known Issues

This section includes some issues that we are aware of and plan to resolve at the earliest:

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