Jaguar – Plutora Production Release Notes July 2015

Major Functionality Enhancements

Post Implementation Review

• This is a BETA version
• Post Implementation Review Manager will require additional software licensing for Production use (Contact your Plutora Account Manager for more information)

Main Features

• Create and manage the end to end Post Implementation Review process
  • Design and auto email questionnaires and surveys and collate consolidate feedback using automated tooling
  • Create PIR Issues and Items and track them through to completion
  • Design Preventative Measures and assign them to future releases/projects to ensure improvement in the delivery lifecycle.
  • Track historical trends and generate actionable insights for management to avoid failures in the release and deployment process.

Email Template Designer

Plutora introduces new functionality called Email Template Wizard to provide administrators more customization of their Emails Notifications.

• This new functionality can be accessed via the Settings > Customization > Emailing > Email Template Wizard, and the old Email Notification under the Site Settings has been removed.
  • Eleven Default Email Templates will be provided to carry out the old Email Notification.
  • Users can add more Email Templates via the Add button on the top.
  • The design process has been divided into five steps.
    • Step 1:
      • Users can edit the Template Name and change the status of the template to Active or In-Active.
    • Step 2:
      • Users can select the Entity, Trigger and Trigger options.
      • For instance, the Entity can be Release, Trigger can be Release Status, and the Trigger Option can be a list of selected Release Statuses.
    • Step 3:
      • Users can edit the Actual Email Content under this page.
      • The Email Subject, Mailed by and Alias can also be set up on this page.
      • Users can drag the available fields based on the Entity Selected into the Actual Email Content.
    • Step 4:
      • Users can preview the email content under this step.
    • Step 5:
      • Based on the Email Entity, different email recipients can be set under this stage.

Announcements Feed

• Plutora provides new functionality that allows administrators to create an announcement feed.
• This Announcement Feed can be set under Settings > Customization > Site Settings > Announcements Feed.
• The new Announcement Feed will be displayed on the top the Application to remind users of an upcoming major event.

Release Calendar Improvements

• Allowing users to open a Release from the Release Calendar.
• Allowing users to open a Test Environment Change Request from the Release Calendar.
• The color scheme of the Test Environment Change Request Type will be displayed in the Release Calendar filter options.
• The Blockout Period description retains the same format in the Release Calendar.

Custom Fields Grouping

• To provide better management of the Custom Fields, users can group Custom Fields together under the same tab.
• The Grouping can be managed under the Customization, Custom Fields window.
• Similar to the inner tabs of the Custom Fields, users need to create the groups first and add them to the corresponding group.

Scheduled Reporting

• Users can now have the ability to set up scheduled reporting. A user can schedule a private or public saved report to be auto emailed as PDFs to an email recipient list.