Version 12.0 – The End of the Trade-off
We are absolutely thrilled to announce the groundbreaking release of BUSINESSMAP Version 12.0! This isn’t just an update - it’s a revolution in how you manage work, powered by the incredible new AI Canvas board. Designed specifically for the era of AI, the AI Canvas will transform your workflow, unleashing unprecedented creativity, efficiency, and collaboration like never before.
With this game-changing feature, BUSINESSMAP takes a giant leap forward as your ultimate SaaS platform for business agility and innovation. Get ready to experience smarter project management, deeper insights, and seamless teamwork that will propel your success to new heights. The future of work is here, and it’s more exciting than ever!
Unleash the Future with AI Canvas: The Ultimate Board Experience!
We're thrilled to introduce AI Canvas, a revolutionary new board type that’s set to transform the way you work! Available now in both Team and Management workspaces, AI Canvas takes the power of whiteboards to an entirely new level.
When creating an AI Canvas board, you can enter a prompt that will be used to generate a tailored template as soon as the board is created. This makes it easier to get started with AI-driven management, ensuring your board is set up for your specific needs from the very beginning.
At its core, AI Canvas is a fully functional board, featuring a default workflow where cards and initiatives live and breathe directly within it. This means you get the perfect blend of structure and flexibility, empowering your team to innovate without limits.
Designed as a super flexible canvas, AI Canvas brilliantly bridges the gap between creativity and metrics, giving you unparalleled control and insight. Get ready to elevate your projects, streamline your processes, and unlock new possibilities with AI Canvas!
Revolutionized OKR Experience
We have completely transformed the way you work with outcomes (OKRs) in this major release!
First of all, AI can now help you define your success! Simply right click on any initiative and select the option - it will generate outcomes for your cards, taking into account titles, descriptions, subtasks, and existing outcomes. You can review, edit, and select which outcomes to add, making strategic planning faster and smarter.
Inside the AI Canvas, outcomes are seamlessly integrated and directly visible, delivering an unparalleled visual experience. Effortlessly connect contributing outcomes to their parent objectives with intuitive drag-and-drop functionality, and take full control over how parent outcomes are calculated from their child outcomes.
Customize your view by choosing whether connections are always visible or only appear on selection, giving you a clean and focused view tailored to your needs. Plus, creating outcomes has never been easier - simply drag an outcome directly onto an initiative to instantly create and organize within the same context.
This is more than an update; it’s a game-changing evolution that brings your strategic planning to life, empowering your team to align, track, and achieve goals with unprecedented clarity and control.
AI Work Breakdown
Leverage AI to effortlessly break down work in the AI Canvas with just a right-click, as the system intelligently analyzes your card’s title, description, and subtasks to generate child cards placed seamlessly on the canvas with appropriate links.
This innovative feature prompts you to clarify your intent, whether you're mapping out a project roadmap or dividing a large goal into actionable objectives, ensuring a tailored structure that fits your unique workflow and planning style. Moreover, if your parent card has defined outcomes, the platform automatically generates supportive outcomes for each child initiative, aligning every child card contextually with your overall objectives.
This powerful enhancement not only saves you time but also makes strategic alignment effortless and transparent, transforming planning and execution into a seamless, intuitive experience.
Your Canvas, Your Widgets!
Imagine the ultimate, most flexible dashboard at your fingertips - that’s exactly what the AI Canvas delivers! Seamlessly place any widget on your canvas, effortlessly position and resize it to create a personalized, perfectly tailored view. Contextualize your metrics like never before and say goodbye to toggling between boards and data. With the AI Canvas, your insights come alive, empowering you to make smarter, faster decisions all in one dynamic, game-changing environment!
Not just that you can place the widgets on the canvas, but you can also ask AI to analyze them. The AI engine will read the chart and provide detailed feedback on any positive or negative trends, as well as tips on how you can improve your flow. It's not a one-way street - you can ask questions about the charts and lead a meaningful conversation, making data interaction truly dynamic and insightful. This is a brave attempt to democratize the Flow metrics for everyone, breaking down barriers and making what once seemed complex and difficult to read accessible and empowering for all users!
What if Work Could Talk?
Imagine if every card in Businessmap could talk. With our groundbreaking version 12.0, that vision is now a reality! We’re thrilled to unveil the revolutionary feature that lets you chat directly with your work.
Ask your cards anything - and get instant answers. Who created this card? Who made the last edit? How long has it been in the current column? Which goal does it contribute to? Our powerful built-in AI chat responds with lightning speed, transforming the way you interact with your projects.
This is just the beginning. Today, you can explore card details through conversation, and tomorrow, we’ll expand this capability to cover the entire card hierarchy. Get ready to experience collaboration and productivity like never before - because with Businessmap 12.0, your work speaks your language!
Move Work Across Workflows in Nanoseconds
Experience the power of effortless work movement across multiple workflows with just a simple drag and drop. Our groundbreaking AI Canvas lets you import and unify your workflows into one dynamic space, making it feel like you're managing a single, supercharged board.
This feature is especially invaluable when you need to distribute many children cards across multiple teams or workflows. Instead of manually copying or reassigning tasks, you can instantly move or duplicate work items to the relevant teams, ensuring everyone stays aligned and up-to-date without any extra effort.
Say goodbye to tedious copying and duplicating - now, the same work appears simultaneously in multiple places, keeping your projects perfectly synchronized and supercharged for productivity. This is not just an upgrade; it's a game-changing leap in how you manage and execute your tasks!
Other Updates
More Sophisticated Arrival and Departure Rules
Based on valuable client feedback, we’ve enhanced the arrival and departure rules for board flows. You can now define not just that parent cards exist, but also specify the type of parent card required - such as initiative cards for financial traceability. This improvement ensures that only cards linked to strategic initiatives move through your workflow, preventing ad hoc demands from consuming team capacity and helping you maintain financial governance and control.
Pie Chart Widget Enhancements
When using pie chart widgets with card picker fields, you’ll see the card titles on hover, making it much easier to interpret your data. Clicking on a segment opens the card directly, streamlining your workflow and making data exploration more interactive and insightful.
AI Summary Generation for Outcomes Description
Save time with AI-generated summaries for your outcomes. The platform uses key data points - metric name, starting value, target value, card title, and description - to create concise, actionable summaries. This feature works both in standard card views and within Whiteboards, helping you communicate objectives clearly and efficiently.
Whiteboards Thumbnail Preview
Enjoy a more visual and personalized experience with the new thumbnail previews for your Whiteboards and AI Canvas dashboards. Now, each board displays a snapshot image of what you last saw in your canvas, making it easier to identify and access your work at a glance.
Deleted Columns and Cycle Time
You now have the option to include the time spent in deleted columns when viewing cycle time scatterplots and histograms. This means you can account for every moment a card spent in your workflow, even if columns or entire workflows have been deleted. The platform distinguishes between time spent in deleted columns and deleted workflows, giving you precise insights and helping you maintain accurate performance metrics.
Board Filter – Blocker Support
Filtering boards now supports filtering by blocker, using operators like is / is not. This matches the advanced search capabilities and gives you granular control over your board views, helping you quickly identify and address blockers in your workflow.
Append or Replace When Updating Custom Fields Across Multiple Cards
When updating dropdown custom fields across multiple cards, you can now choose to append new values or replace existing ones - just like you do with tags. The system provides clear visual cues and warnings, especially when working with “other” values, ensuring you always know what changes will be applied. This feature works seamlessly from both the context menu and advanced search, making mass updates faster and more reliable.