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.

VersionRelease date Key features
1.0September 2003

Wide range of functionality covering performance indicators, actions tracking and reporting.

1.1February 2004

Numerous usability enhancements and new features across the full range of modules.

1.2June 2004

Significantly expanded the filtering and searching available in Action Central, and delivered traffic-lighting in scorecards, as opposed to just PIs.

2.0October 2004

Radically improved functionality to existing modules and a new Risk Management module. Fundamental re-design of product architecture.

2.1January 2005

New Target Profiling feature. Enhancements to reports, permissions, PI Updates, Categories and Triggers.

2.2May 2005

Action Query module, Imports from spreadsheets.

2.3September 2005

New directories button, module for integration with source systems.

6.0January 2006

New Reporting module, using query beans for setting multiple parameters. Full set of import routines. Performance enhancements across the board.

6.1April 2006

Improved report layouts, addition of Weekly/ Daily frequency for PI, Snapshots enhancements, wide range of performance enhancements

6.2July 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.

6.3October 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.

7.0March 2007

Implementation of Action Timeline. Tabbed browsing introduced. PI, Snapshots and Reports enhancements. First cut of the browser based Web Module introduced.

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