What is new in version 12.0?

Social Intranet Enhancements

Quick navigation: Polls in the Activity Stream Badges / Appreciation Integration with Social Networks Smart Follow Mode

Polls

The option to create polls among internal users is now available. A user can create a poll with any number of possible answers. Polls allow a quick assessment of opinions or can be used as a tool for research or decision-making. This is a very useful tool for feedback from employees, especially in large companies.

New polls in the Activity Stream

Badges

A new motivational tool – badges, is now available for users to show appreciation. Supervisors and management can also give 'awards' visible to all or part of the company, or simply individually. These badges show up in the Activity Stream and in the profile of the user.

A badge can be given to show appreciation or an accomplishment

Integration with Social Networks

Now you can connect with the intranet via social networks so that when a user enters a Twitter account in the profile, the Activity Stream can display tweets which contain a pre-determined hashtag. Likewise, if desired, users can share information about their working day like the number of tasks completed or meetings held. Authorization via social networks including GoogleDrive, SkyDrive, and DropBox.

Connected profiles in the intranet

Smart Follow Mode

You can push the 'unfollow' button to unsubscribe to topics which are not needed. This keeps the amount of new material in the Activity Stream to the level desired. The "Smart Follow Mode" can be turned on for all users only for those who choose this option.

"Unsubscribed" from unneeded messages

Mobile & Desktop Apps

Mobile App for iOS and Android

The new version of our free mobile app for iPhone / Android now offers push notifications, mobile files and documents management, event scheduling and monitoring task. By the way, now you can create tasks, monitor their execution, and follow status changes in your Bitrix24 self-hosted or Bitrix24 Cloud versions right from your phone!

In the new version, you can use your phone to accept, assign, delegate, or perform any other action on a selected task.

Task lists are divided into two groups and can be presented as a simple list (All Tasks). The mobile interface signals changes in task statuses with colored tabs: red – overdue; green – new; yellow – awaiting approval.

With the unique new Push & Pull technology in the mobile app, you can see tasks in 'live' view – that is, if a task is deleted from the intranet from the desktop app, it will disappear from the list in the mobile app immediately.

Now you can view public files (documents, presentations and images) directly from the mobile app. Also, you can find files much more easily with the built-in search. *In the Android version, you can open any file type, simply by installing a corresponding application.

Desktop App for Mac and Windows

With the desktop application, you can close your browser and still stay in touch through the company intranet (also avilable for Bitrix24 Self-hosted and Bitrix24 Cloud versions). You will still get notifications of the most important new developments, likes, comments, and changes in tasks in the Activity Stream. The Desktop app also features Bitrix24.Drive which provides you with a powerful tool to manage and synch your documents and files between your Mac / PC and your Bitrix24 in the Cloud. Download Desktop App for Mac or Windows

Bitrix24 Drive (now in beta testing) allows synchronization of user files between the local machine and the intranet.

Now all contacts are displayed on the left in a dialog. And the most recent in a custom tab. Group Chats are also avilable in the Desktop version

Notifications are displayed in the message window, as well

Pop-up notifications appear right on your desktop

Public Files

The new service of public files is similar to popular web-based services. It allows a selected file to be shared, securely, with selected external users. Furthermore, access can be time-limited or via a password. This option allows you to avoid any further saving of company data or files on external resources. Furthermore, using this service relieves pressure on the corporate mail server.

Accessing a file externally

A link for general access to a file remains valid for a specific time and can be protected by a password

Improved CRM

Now the most performed CRM actions can be done with minimal clicks. Foremost this affects work with deals and adding information to them, creating new deals, and visualization and changing their stage. There is also a new format for entering information about deals.

There is also a new CRM-only 'smart search' which allows filters to be saved for quick access to needed data. The filter contains forms which cover 90% of regularly used search queries.

Activities in new CRM

Leads overview in Bitrix24 CRM

Sales Funnel in Bitrix24 CRM

New Product Interfaces, Online Training, Free Cloud Backup, and more!

Quick navigation: New Product Interfaces Improved Online Training Module Free Cloud Backup New Bitrix Virtual Machine v4.2

New Product Interfaces

The administrative panels in the front end and the back end (Control Panel) have been redesigned to a stylish and, most importantly, intuitive interface, which is easy to use from the start.

The new look of the 'top' panel has larger and better-marked buttons in a panel that visually is much better separated from the page itself. The back-end is adapted to accommodate touch screens, and features easier navigation among the main sections. Check out the screenshots, below:

New product GUI with the redesigned top-panel in the front-end.

Now you can create several desktops for your website developers on a single page at the back-end.

All filters now have tabs in which you can save your own custom filter settings (presets that will be visible to individual users or for all users).

Updates in the Online Training Module

Use a single page in multiple sections. You no longer need to copy a page which is repeated in several chapters – now a page can be attached to multiple sections and courses.

Aside from separate pages, the product now supports 'free' lessons and courses. This means that individual lessons can be appended to a number of courses and one course can be set inside a second one.

Interconnected courses

The new version has an improved access system. Now access can be assigned by user group (as before), or by department or individual user.

Access to courses

Free Cloud Backup

The new version of Bitrix24 provides clients with a cloud backup option. That is, a complete copy of your intranet can be stored in a cloud storage area that Bitrix provides free to owners of Bitrix24. The backup in the Bitrix Cloud is completely secure. We do not have access to this data. The Cloud backup feature let you:

• create a backup of your intranet from the administrative section of your site;
• immediately save this copy in a location already prepared (by Bitrix);
• get access to your cloud backup;
• restore your backup using the standard restoration method in Bitrix24.

Bitrix Cloud Backup is a free option for licenses of Bitrix24 that have active subscription for product updates and technical support. The product edition determines the amount of free space available in the Cloud:

New version of Bitrix Virtual Machine - 4.2

For installation of the Bitrix24 on a company server, we recommend using the free Virtual Machine 4.2 with an optimized environment for operation of the intranet. Bitrix Virtual Machine is free, quick, scalable, and can be installed in a private cloud!