About four times a year, we release a major update for iProva. In these updates, we introduce new features and ensure that existing functionalities work even easier and better. These updates also ensure that iProva stays technically 'up to date'.

Curious about what's new in iProva 5.8? We've summarised it for you on this page.

Audits, task schedules and planning

New options have been added to the planning overview, allowing you to get the information you are looking for even faster. You can now filter by status (e.g. all planned activities for which the deadline has been exceeded) and you can exclude organisational units and/or employees for which no activities are planned from the overview.

Documents & processes

Is your organisation preparing for (re)certification or accreditation? Then it is important to have an overview of the documentation required from the applicable standard(s).
To help you with this, we are making it even easier to establish the relationship between a document or process and the relevant chapters from the standard(s). You can now set this directly at the document under the new heading "Compliance". By using the field in the reporting module, it is possible, for example, to get an overview of the documents that are not yet linked to a framework.
Bulk creation of this relationship for groups of documents simultaneously is also possible.
More info

When consulting process diagrams risks can be highlighted at the relevant process steps. We are working on more setting options, to suit your organisation's needs: who is allowed to see these risks at the process, and who is not?

Every document has certain (meta) attributes. Some of these (such as 'title' and 'version number') are fixed, but as an application manager you can also define additional meta fields yourself, including fields of type 'dropdown list'. It is now possible to retrieve list values from an external source (database or data file), as an alternative to manual entry. Useful if you want the end user to select from master data such as appliances or buildings already in an existing database.
This is how you do it

Card box

This module makes it easy to set up one or more card indexes. For each map bin, you determine which information you want to record on a map. You can, for instance, use fields of type 'dropdown list'. It is now possible to retrieve the list values from an external source (database or data file), as an alternative to manual input. Useful if you want the end user to select from master data such as appliances or buildings already in an existing database.
This is how you do it

Reporting & analysis

For organisations operating in multiple countries, or dealing with multiple languages within national borders, we extend the capabilities of the module Reporting & analysing out to serve employees in their own language.
It was already possible to serve reporters entirely in their own language. A number of new features will ensure that handling notifications in one's own language will also become easier:

  • the coordinator form can now be formatted in several languages
  • names of statuses and status transitions in the workflow can be defined in multiple languages
  • field names can be defined in multiple languages
  • explanations in the 'What should I do' table can be defined in multiple languages

The 'What should I do' table is a useful tool to quickly guide employees when handling a report or improvement action. Even more actions can now be included in this table, such as assigning the report to someone else, returning the report to the reporter, changing the deadline, and adding involved persons.
Learn more about setting up the 'What to do' table

Risk management

More and more organisations are discovering the power of iProva when it comes to governance, risk management & compliance.
Fuelled by their feedback, we are developing fully on the risk management-tools within iProva.

Thus, we introduce the risk heatmap. This extension to the existing management information dashboard in iProva quickly provides instant insight into risks and answers questions such as: 'where are the high risks within my business unit'? The heatmap is interactive; you can click through to filter further and view details of risks.
Getting started

iProva now offers even more flexibility when it comes to setting the owner of risks. For instance, it is now possible to work with inheritance: if officer A is set as the owner of a risk for a certain organisational unit, he automatically is for all underlying risk units as well unless a different owner is set there.
In this video, we explain how it works

Each risk has certain (meta)characteristics. Some of these (such as 'name' and 'risk domain') are fixed, but as an application manager you can also define additional meta fields yourself, including fields of type 'dropdown list'. It is now possible to retrieve list values from an external source (database or data file), as an alternative to manual entry. Useful if you want the end user to select from master data such as appliances or buildings already in an existing database.
This is how you do it

Questionnaires

Results of questionnaires can be visualised through diagrams on the Management information page on the iProva portal.
Here, we add the option to show the outcome of one question on the portal. Useful if you work with the NPS (Net Promoter Score), for example.

Technology

As of iProva version 5.8.0, you can no longer use Internet Explorer 10 in combination with iProva.
You can use Internet Explorer 11 or an up-to-date version of Google Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari.

iProva now offers support for the SCIM protocol (System for Cross-domain Identity Management).
This allows iProva to be more easily connected to modern identity management solutions such as Azure Active Directory and solutions from vendors such as Okta.
Read all about it on the Infoland Community.

In the vast majority of cases, everything goes well. Those few times when something does go wrong in iProva, you get an error message. This will change in iProva 5.8. From now on, end-users will no longer see error details. This is friendlier and safer.
The application manager actually gains more insight; he can now view the error log via the web interface as well as easily forward error information to the Infoland Service Desk.

For application managers

For all the ins and outs about this update, check out our Support website (login required). You'll find the full release notes and a handy checklist to help you get the most out of this update.