Product history
A major reason for Covalent's success is our commitment to continually developing and enhancing the product
in line with customer suggestions and ideas.
Covalent Version 1.0 launched in the local councils market end September 2003 and delivered a wide range of
functionality covering performance indicators, actions tracking and reporting. On a regular basis since, we have
introduced successively more feature-rich versions, that also cater for other public sector markets.
| Version | Release date |
Key features |
| 1.0 | September 2003 |
Wide range of functionality covering performance indicators, actions tracking and reporting. |
| 1.1 | February 2004 |
Numerous usability enhancements and new features across the full range of modules. |
| 1.2 | June 2004 |
Significantly expanded the filtering and searching available in Action Central, and delivered
traffic-lighting in scorecards, as opposed to just PIs. |
| 2.0 | October 2004 |
Radically improved functionality to existing modules and a new Risk Management module. Fundamental
re-design of product architecture. |
| 2.1 | January 2005 |
New Target Profiling feature. Enhancements to reports, permissions, PI Updates, Categories and Triggers. |
| 2.2 | May 2005 |
Action Query module, Imports from spreadsheets. |
| 2.3 | September 2005 |
New directories button, module for integration with source systems. |
| 6.0 | January 2006 |
New Reporting module, using query beans for setting multiple parameters. Full set of import routines.
Performance enhancements across the board. |
| 6.1 | April 2006 |
Improved report layouts, addition of Weekly/ Daily frequency for PI, Snapshots enhancements, wide
range of performance enhancements |
| 6.2 | July 2006 |
Drag and drop fully enabled, also copy & paste, revamped Imports allowing any field to be imported,
Homepage addition of My Summary, Snapshots and URLs, Snapshot/ Scorecard Reports, range of Report
Layout enhancements, Scorecard ownership at all levels. |
| 6.3 | October 2006 |
Major expansion of Action Central project tracking facilities, wide range of
new Admin reports added to template library, variety of PI enhancements, new Models module launched. |
| 7.0 | March 2007 |
Implementation of Action Timeline. Tabbed browsing introduced. PI, Snapshots and Reports enhancements. First cut of the browser based Web Module introduced. |
Technical Overview
Covalent CPM is an integrated suite of Performance Management software products, developed using Java from Sun Microsystems, in particular the following technologies; Swing, RMI-over-HTTP, Webstart, Servlet. It is a mostly proprietary system, extended in some parts by third party, open source software.
Contributing libraries:
Jakarta Commons and Apache
Dom4j
JCalendar