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Product updates

A rundown of the latest ITONICS feature releases, product improvements, and important bug fixes in the ITONICS Innovation OS.

February 10, 2025

Web Clipper, AI Radar, SSO Assignments

NEW FEATURE

Web Clipper (Add-On)

Capture any website during your research or browsing and bring it into ITONICS with just a click.

  • Convert webpages into elements and assign them to the right workspaces.
  • Chrome Extension: Download it

Read more

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NEW FEATURE

AI Radar Trend & Technology Generation (Add-On)

Leverage our brand-new AI-driven radar to spot emerging trends and technologies automatically.

  • Discover and describe trends from large data pools (news, patents, research).
  • Rate, segment, and visualize them on a dynamically generated radar.
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NEW FEATURE

Role & Workspace Assignments via SSO (Enterprise Feature)

Automatically manage user roles and workspace memberships by leveraging your organization’s SSO (Single Sign-On) setup. By mapping specific attributes from your SAML configuration to roles and workspaces in ITONICS, you can ensure that every user gets the correct level of access from the moment they log in.

Key Benefits

  • Centralized Access Management: Maintain role and permission assignments in one place, reducing overhead and risk of errors.
  • Time Savings: Eliminate manual user provisioning by mapping SSO attributes to ITONICS roles and workspaces.
  • Scalable Approach: Perfect for large organizations needing to onboard or update many users efficiently.

Read more

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IMPROVEMENT

User Profile Attributes (Professional Plan)

Enhance user profiles with automatically populated data from your SSO or Identity Provider. These additional fields can be used for future functionality, such as permissions management, group assignments, or custom automations.

Key Benefits

  • Consistent User Data: Keep user information up to date across ITONICS based on data in your IdP.
  • Streamlined Administration: Minimize the need for manual profile edits and reduce admin workload.
  • Foundation for Advanced Permissions: Use these additional attributes in future permissions or workflow configurations (e.g., auto-assigning groups based on location or department).

Read more

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IMPROVEMENT

Notifications for Reactions to Comments

Keep conversations going without getting overwhelmed.

  • Stay informed when others react to your comments.
  • Batched notifications prevent inbox overload.
  • Emojis display who reacted and how.
December 10, 2024

Weighted Rating Averages & Network Graph

NEW FEATURE

Weighted Rating Averages (Professional)

Get automatically the average of multiple rating properties, with your own weight on each rating.

Key Features:

  • Rating Aggregation Property: Choose which ratings should contribute to the aggregation.

  • Customizable Weighting: Assign specific weights to criteria (e.g., prioritize Impact over Feasibility) to tailor the aggregation to your needs.

Read here how to do the setup. 

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NEW FEATURE

Network Graph on Elements

Relations between elements such as trends, technologies, projects, and competitors are now visualized.

Key Features:

  • Positive and Negative Correlations: Define relationships using relation types like drivers and hinderers. Colors and relation directions show the correlations between elements.

  • Second-Level Network Depth: Explore deeper relations and uncover opportunities for cross-pollination, sparking new ideas and innovations.

Read here how to use the Network Graph.

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IMPROVEMENT

Import Relations via XLSX

We've enhanced the Excel Import feature by adding support for importing relations, making element management more seamless.

Important Note for existing Templates:

If you’re using older import templates, you’ll need to:

  • Download the latest templates with pre-configured relation columns.

  • Manually update your templates by adding relation columns in the format Relation: Element Type (e.g., Relation: Trend) for each element type in the workspace.

Read here how to use the Excel Import.

November 15, 2024

Configurable Slides, Convert Content & Smart Copy

NEW FEATURE

Configurable Slides (Professional)

Map properties directly to PowerPoint components. Updates within ITONICS are automatically reflected in your presentations upon download. You can upload your organization's PowerPoint templates. 

Key Features:

  • Map ITONICS element properties for rapid PowerPoint creation: The ITONICS PowerPoint Integration feature enables you to map your Trend, Technologies, Ideas, Projects, etc. directly to specific PowerPoint artefacts. Once established, the mappings ensure that updates are applied automatically upon download, keeping your presentations always up-to-date with the latest insights.

  • Custom PowerPoint Templates: Upload your own PowerPoint templates to maintain consistent branding and presentation standards.

  • Effortless Data Transfer: Export element data and visualizations directly into PowerPoint presentations with minimal effort.

Read here how to set up your PowerPoint Export with your custom Templates.

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NEW FEATURE

Convert Content

Convert shared properties from one element type to another. Archive the source elements and transfer associated comments and relations to the new element.

Key Features:

  • Element conversion: When converting one element type to another, the new element will automatically be mapped to the new properties while retaining all information from the original mapping, eliminating the need to re-enter information. The new element type needs to contain the properties to be converted. 

  • Archive, Comments, and Relations: Optionally archive source elements and carry over comments and relations to the new element.

Read here how to convert from inspiration to idea to project to product!

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IMPROVEMENT

Smart Copy

We improved the Smart Copy mechanism, allowing elements to be copied between workspaces, even if they use different version templates.

For now, shared properties between source and target element type will be copied. 

October 07, 2024

Reporting & API (Professional)

NEW FEATURE

Innovation Reporting

Extract data via the ITONICS API and seamlessly integrate with BI Tools for comprehensive analysis of innovation portfolios. Embed your reports in the ITONICS Innovation OS. 

Key Features:

  • Extract Data via API: Get your data you want to report on via the ITONICS API.

  • Integrate with PowerBI and Tableau: Use these integrations to create reports about your innovation portfolio’s health and balance, as well as financial metrics.

  • Share your reports seamlessly:  With the Embed feature, you can insert your created reports directly into your ITONICS Innovation OS. 

Read here how to extract your innovation portfolio data from the ITONICS Innovation OS to Power BI.  This article shows you how to embed your created reports. 

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