Release Notes for July 2019
The July 2019 release of the software contains the following notable features and fixes:
Mass Notifications
- Ally now has the capability to send mass notifications to up to 9,999 recipients with a single send
- All customers have the ability to send email notifications to their Names or Personnel records, providing the record has an email address associated with it
- SMS and Text-to-Speech mass notifications are available well as an add-on to the base package
- For more information about enabling SMS and Text-to-Speech, please contact your sales rep
Saved Searches
- New to every search page is the ability to save commonly used searches and re-apply them at any time
- These saved searches are stored on a per-user basis, meaning each user will have their own custom set of saved searches
Statistics Optimization
- Statistics can now be generated in far greater quantities, and the generation of these statistics is faster than ever before
- Results are now displayed in a more common-sense order - for example, lists will be organized in descending order of quantity
- Statistic Types were re-evaluated, and some lesser-used statistics were removed
Move to Microsoft(R) Azure Cloud Hosting
- The software has been moved from in-house cloud hosting to Microsoft's Azure cloud hosting environment
Misc. Fixes and Changes
- Users will now receive an email when their password is changed by a non-Administrator. If the user did not make this change, they should contact their administrator or support immediately
- PTT functionality has been optimized to work more quickly and with fewer errors