What's new in this release

Unanet 21.2 includes an update to Analytics to allow P&R Administrators more functionality and an enhancement to the Mobile App to allow Single Sign-On (SSO).

Targeted general availability date for 21.2 is 3/3/2021.

See below for:

• 21.2 New Features and Functions
• 21.1 New Features and Functions
• 20.7 New Features and Functions
• Impacts for Existing Customers   Important!

For point release information, visit the Unanet Knowledge Center Home page and click on the New Releases tab.

We are making some changes to our versioning scheme. We will be releasing minor versions at the end of each month, starting end of October 2020. This scheme is intended to provide a mechanism to deliver continuous, quality functionality releases at the end of each month. The version format is $Year.$Minor, such as 20.5. For example, the following are tentative release dates and versions:

• 20.5 - End of October
• 20.6 - End of November
• 20.7 - End of December or Early January for our quarterly release.

Please note version numbers are tentative.

21.2 New Features and Functions

• Analytics - P&R Administrators can now manage instance reports and scheduled reports, and have access to the Studio folders, reports, and functions.
• Mobile App - Allows Single Sign-On (SSO) using OpenID Connect protocols.

21.1 New Features and Functions

• New Purchasing License - New license includes Project Portfolio functionality with limited financial functionality: purchasing and vendor invoices only.
• Add Attachments to Contracts - Contract Managers can manage attachments associated with a contract. See Contract Profile >> Attachments.
• New Contract Brief Report - Provides contract information. See Contract Brief.
• Project Audit Trail - Now displays new contract accounting fields.
• Add Task to Project Inventory View - Task column added to Project Items >> Inventory page.
• Add M&IE Per Diem Allowable Wizard Fields to Expense Export - Fields added to expense export template.
• Analytics - Allow users to get posting group and account using the data objects.
• Mobile App - Security improvements to make the login experience more seamless.

20.7 New Features and Functions

• Analytics:
• • Project Central Dashboard is now available to Analytics Studio customers. It leverages Project Accounting (JSR) data obtained via Unanet API to highlight project and program control KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and provides real time project and financial metrics together in one easy to use dashboard. Information is presented in graphs and tabular formats designed to improve project performance. 
  • Scheduler is now available in Analytics, regardless of license type. Administrators can schedule Analytics reports for recurring automated delivery to one or more email addresses.

• Mobile App: For users interested in entering time via a mobile device (iOS or Android), Unanet has a mobile app (targeted general availability 1/23/21) available in the App Store (iOS) or Play Store (Android) called Unanet. Users can perform the following functions:
• • add, update, delete, and submit timesheet entries and leave requests, including comments
  • enter time adjustments along with change reasons for audit purposes
  • set reminder notifications for entering timesheets
  • easy and secure authentication (face recognition)

The Mobile App will support all the compliance enforcement rules of the browser-based timesheet from blocking time entry in advance to enforcing comments – at your choice, of course – as well as all the same automated reminders you use today.

• Contract Management: Contract Management will collect, track, and manage data at the contract level and associate that data with as many projects as necessary to make the total contract visible to the stakeholders. Contract modifications and associated changes in contract value or funding will be tracked individually with both an audit trail and reporting functionality. Modifications at the contract level will update affected projects and contract values and funding will roll up from the projects. Contract Managers will be able to generate contract reports to easily summarize and distribute information to stakeholders.

Administrators will have the flexibility to define and capture contract status information, contract types, as well as User Defined Fields (UDFs).

The Contracts menu will appear in place of the Projects menu and Projects will be located as a submenu under Contracts.

Note: Contract functionality is for cloud customers only.

• Inventory: From data imported from an external inventory system, stakeholders will be able to view inventory associated with specific projects. The data will not need to be manually recorded in Unanet. Project managers, project accountants, and other stakeholders will be able to easily access data on the items and quantities in inventory via the new Project Inventory report.

If the Use Inventory (unanet.inventory.enabled) property is enabled, the following functionality will be available:

Note: Inventory functionality is for cloud customers only.

!!  Important  !!

Impacts to Existing Installations

• System Requirements

Please review the System Requirements help page to make sure your platform has the necessary underlying component versions to support this version of Unanet.  

Please review the  compatibility matrix for supported Unanet versions.

Should you need to update your database version you will want to do this prior to running the Unanet migration.  
The process of updating your SQL Server database involves the creation of a backup of the database in the older version and then a restore of that file in the newer database version.

Java Memory Parameter Tuning -- Unanet 10.0 and up will require you to increase several memory related parameters in order to function properly.  See Required Java Tuning for more information.

• Import Layout Changes  

The file layout for the Project Import has changed (eleven new fields added to the end of the import layout).  

1. 1. • New Field (Conditionally Required) - Contract_Code (Field #106)

      • New Field (Optional) - Total_Cost (Field #107)

      • New Field (Optional) - Total_Fee (Field #108)

      • New Field (Optional) - Funded_Cost (Field #109)

      • New Field (Optional) - Funded_Fee (Field #110)

      • New Field (Optional) - Orig_Funded_Cost (Field #111)

      • New Field (Optional) - Orig_Funded_Fee (Field #112)

      • New Field (Optional) - Orig_Funded_Value (Field #113)

      • New Field (Optional) - Orig_Total_Cost (Field #114)

      • New Field (Optional) - Orig_Total_Fee (Field #115)

      • New Field (Optional) - Orig_Total_Value (Field #116)

       

• Migration Instructions  

Once you are ready, here is a link to the migration instructions.

See FAQ - Migration Considerations (search for this topic in the Knowledge Center) for more information.

Notify Unanet

Unanet Customer Service is always interested in keeping up with which versions of software are in use at customer sites.  At the conclusion of your upgrade, please take a quick minute to send an email to support@unanet.com indicating your success (along with the version you are running).  If you have the time, you could also click on the Send to Unanet button on the About page (which will forward your platform details to customer service).  

Thanks!