OrgChart Now 3.3.3 Coming Soon

Key features include:

• 'Refresh Date' auto-text element (shows date that data was refreshed through a connector or the last date a data file was modified)
• Enhanced tables - Should values/formulas for the current branch or entire chart
• Enhanced master page - Map values from the top box of a subchart to values used in elements in the master page (for example, map 'RA' to 'Regulatory Affairs')
• Specify top box - In the import wizard, you can specify one or more boxes as the top of your chart. This solves issues with circular references (e.g. CFO reports to CEO and CEO reports to CFO).
• Enhanced SutiHR Integration - Single Sign On from SutiHR and auto-configuration of SutiHR connector when account is created.
• Minor bug fixes

OrgChart Now Version 3.3 is now live on all servers!

 Key features include:

• Improved ADP Workforce Now Connector – Query is now up to 8 times faster, Added Authentication Test to check ADP Keys
• Optimized UltiPro Import – Query is up to 50% faster
• ADP Vantage HCM Connector – Create org charts from ADP Vantage HCM data
• breatheHR Cloud Connector – Create org charts from breatheHR data 
• SAML 2.0 Single Sign On – Single Sign On into OrgChart Now from any SAML Identify Provider (for example, OKTA.com or OneLogin.com)
• Improved Autotext elements - Support for International Dates
• Resolution of a number of defects

What is SAML and why it's so important

OrgChart Now now support SAML 2.0!

SAML provides a standards based approach for Single Sign On. SAML is deployed in tens of thousands of cloud single sign-on (SSO) connections. Thousands of large enterprises, government agencies and service providers have selected it as their standard protocol for communicating identities across the internet. If you have an identify management system that supports SAML, you now can easily add OrgChart Now to your application dashboard.

End users benefit because SAML promotes single sign-on (the ability to use a variety of Internet resources without having to log in repeatedly) and a more personalized user experience that can nonetheless be made privacy-friendly.

OrgChart Now is already up and running against a number of SAML solutions including okta.com and onelogin.com.

Some concrete benefits of SAML are:

• Platform neutrality. SAML abstracts the security framework away from platform architectures and particular vendor implementations. Making security more independent of application logic is an important tenet of Service-Oriented Architecture.
• Improved online experience for end users. SAML enables single sign-on by allowing users to authenticate at an identity provider and then access service providers without additional authentication. In addition, identity federation (linking of multiple identities) with SAML allows for a better-customized user experience at each service while promoting privacy.
• Reduced administrative costs for service providers. Using SAML to 'reuse' a single act of authentication (such as logging in with a username and password) multiple times across multiple services can reduce the cost of maintaining account information.This burden is transferred to the identity provider.
• Risk transference. SAML can act to push responsibility for proper management of identities to the identity provider, which is more often compatible with its business model than that of a service provider.

OrgChart Now 3.2 now available!

OrgChart Now Version 3.2 is now available on all servers.

OrgChart Now Version 3.2 Coming Soon

Key features include:

1. Improved ADP Workforce Now Connector – Progress meter shows how many records have been retrieved from ADP Workforce Now
2. Salesforce Connector – Import data directly from Salesforce
3. Improved User Management – Improved support for large user communities within an account (e.g. more than 50 users in an account)
4. Improved Data Refresh – User now has more control over how the chart is refreshed
5. Private Charts – Each read/write user now has their own private folder (can only be accessed by that user or an administrator)
6. Rule Based Assistant Formatting – Create a rule to automatically set assistant branch styles (e.g. Title contains ‘Assistant’)
7. Improved Import Wizard – Select Chart Template Panel UI has been improved
8. Improved Optimize Page Function – Page optimization does a better job of automatically selecting branch styles (e.g. improves experience with import, data refresh, subchart wizard and Optimize Page functions)
9. Optimize Page with large number of boxes – Optimize page does a better job of automatically selecting branch styles when working with 50 or more boxes on a page (works well up to about 500 boxes)
10. Optimize Page with multiple assistants – Assistant branch styles are automatically optimized to make better use of available space on the page
11. Subchart Break Enhancements – Branch Styles are better optimized when a subchart break is removed or added. Remove all breaks performance is 10X faster. Subchart Wizard is smarter - doesn't insert breaks on pages with very few boxes.
12. OneLogin Support – Single Sign On from OneLogin.com (using OneLogin browser extension)
13. Improved Subchart Panel – Expand/Collapse nodes and improved paging using the up/down arrow keys
14. Improved Import Wizard – Better error reporting for blank header fields (e.g. Check Column [X] in your spreadsheet)
15. Improved Localization – Support for file names containing special characters
16. Bug fixes

Browser Support

OrgChart Now works on Google Chrome, FireFox, Safari, Microsoft Edge, IE11 and IE10. OrgChart Now does not support IE8 or IE9.

Microsoft just announced  that "Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016." We recommend that IE users upgrade to Microsoft Edge as it is more than 2X faster and more stable.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/WindowsForBusiness/End-of-IE-support