Latest Features in IP Lifecycle Management

What's New in IPLM Core

IPLM Core 2024.4

View Permissions in Planning BOM

With this release, the IPLM Planning module now supports View permissions. This allows users to view the Planning Bill of Materials (BOM), as well as add, edit, or delete any planned IPs they have View permission for.

This expands the pool of resources organizations can include in planning, while maintaining the appropriate level of security for all IPs.

For a list of all new features, enhancements, and bug fixes, review the release notes.

What's New in IPLM Core

IPLM Core 2024.3

Enhanced Quick Filters

This release brings a new approach and a new look to quick filters. When entering catalog searches, each label, library, and property choice value now shows a count of the results that will be returned if that option is selected. These updates offer a better, e-commerce-like user experience, addressing what has been a popular enhancement request.

For a list of all new features, enhancements, and bug fixes, review the release notes.

Please note that these enhancements and all future IPLM Web and IPLM Cache updates will only be available to organizations that have upgraded to the IPLM Core 2024.1 release or higher.

Contact your Account Executive to schedule your migration. 

What's New in IPLM Core

IPLM Core 2024.2

Single Sign-On (SSO)

IPLM Core now supports single sign-on (SSO), using the Helix IPLM Authentication Service. SSO improves system security, increases productivity, and improves the end-user login experience.

Enhanced Perforce Streams Support

This release enhances IPLM Core’s native DM support for Streams by enabling 'revision' and 'filelist' releases in IPLM. This allows users to determine what they want to include in any given release.

Helix IPLM’s native support for the P4Stream DM type IPs enables IPLM users to benefit from the dynamic, intuitive branching and merging capabilities of Perforce Streams.

CDO (Customer-Defined Object) Hooks 

CDO Hooks allow admins to run a script before or after an action to enforce custom business logic, delivering more powerful capabilities for customers who are customizing their IP quality rules and/or workflows. 

Alias Server Hooks

This release enhances the alias server hooks to help admins ensure users in your organization are using aliases correctly.

For a list of all new features, enhancements, and bug fixes, review the release notes.

Please note that these enhancements and all future IPLM Web and IPLM Cache updates will only be available to organizations that have upgraded to the IPLM Core 2024.1 release (or higher).

Contact your Account Executive to schedule your migration. 

What's New in IPLM Core?

IPLM Core 2024.1

Neo4j 4 Cypher Support

With this release, Helix IPLM now supports the Neo4j 4.4 Cypher query language. Benefits of Helix IPLM’s upgrade to Cypher include:

• Immediate performance improvements as well as enabling additional, ongoing performance improvements over time.
• Enables next-generation causal clustering to improve reliability and performance for remote teams around the world.

This release requires Neo4j 4.4 or later 4.x series. Neo4j is the high-speed graph database used by Helix IPLM. Cypher is Neo4j’s visual graph query language that provides a more powerful, efficient, and intuitive way to query the Neo4j database. 

With this release, the naming convention for IPLM Core changes from 3.x.y to 2024.x.y, starting with 2024.1.0.

For a list of all enhancements, known issues, and other details, review the release notes.

Please note that you will need to upgrade to IPLM Core 2024.1 or higher to benefit from the UX/UI enhancements in the IPLM Web 2024.3 release, as well as all future IPLM Web and IPLM Cache enhancements. 

Contact your Account Executive to schedule your migration. 

What's New in IPLM Core?

IPLM Core 3.6

Streams Support

With this release, Helix IPLM Core now supports Perforce Streams, the superior branching and merging functionality in Helix Core, as a native DM type. Streams, also known as P4Streams, will now work seamlessly with Helix IPLM out of the box, without the need for a custom DM handler.

Helix IPLM’s native support for the P4Stream DM type IPs enables IPLM users to benefit from the dynamic, intuitive branching and merging capabilities of Perforce Streams.

For a list of all new features, enhancements, and bug fixes, review the release notes.

What's New in IPLM Web

IPLM Web 2024.7

Create/Edit IP: Details Tab

Expanding on the Create/Edit IP enhancements on the Resource tab in the IPLM Web 2024.5 release, this release improves the user experience on the IP Details tab. 

Entering or editing information about an IP in the Details tab will now be more intuitive for users, including better feedback in the IP Editor and a redesigned UI for selecting library, labels, client-side hooks, and DM type.

For a list of all new features, enhancements, and bug fixes, review the release notes.

Please note that these enhancements and all future IPLM Web and IPLM Cache updates will only be available to organizations that have upgraded to the IPLM Core 2024.3 release or higher.

Contact your Account Executive to schedule your migration.

What's New in IPLM Web

IPLM Web 2024.6

Enhanced Quick Filters

This release brings a new approach and a new look to quick filters. When entering catalog searches, each label, library, and property choice value now shows a count of the results that will be returned if that option is selected. These updates offer a better, e-commerce-like user experience, addressing what has been a popular enhancement request.

For a list of all new features, enhancements, and bug fixes, review the release notes.

Please note that these enhancements and all future IPLM Web and IPLM Cache updates will only be available to organizations that have upgraded to the IPLM Core 2024.1 release or higher.

Contact your Account Executive to schedule your migration. 

What's New in Helix IPLM Web?

Helix IPLM Web 2024.5

Create/Edit IP: Resource (Display & Browser) Enhancements

This release adds more context and information when adding or editing resources in the Create/Edit IP interface to improve the user experience and UI. Users can now use drop-down selectors to select Line and Version, by Version or Alias. You’ll see more data about the Line & Version you’ve selected. When adding a new resource, you’ll also see a new confirmation page to ensure you’re adding the right resource. More Create/Edit IP enhancements to come in future phases.

For a list of all new features, enhancements, and bug fixes, review the release notes.

Please note that these enhancements and all future IPLM Web and IPLM Cache updates will only be available to organizations that have upgraded to the IPLM Core 2024.1 release or higher. 

Contact your Account Executive to schedule your migration. 

What's New in Helix IPLM Web?

Helix IPLM Web 2024.4

Single Sign-On (SSO)

IPLM Web now supports single sign-on (SSO), using the Helix IPLM Authentication Service. SSO improves system security, increases productivity, and improves the end-user login experience.

For a list of all new features, enhancements, and bug fixes, review the release notes. 

Please note that these enhancements and all future IPLM Web and IPLM Cache updates will only be available to organizations that have upgraded to the IPLM Core 2024.1 release or higher. 

Contact your Account Executive to schedule your migration. 

What's New in Helix IPLM Web?

Helix IPLM Web 2024.3

UX/UI Enhancements

We are continuing to expand upon the user experience improvements we brought to Helix IPLM Web in 2023 and Q1 of 2024. UX/UI enhancements in the Helix IPLM Web 2024.3 release include:

• A new control on the Hierarchy and contents page allows users to set the levels of hierarchy that are visible. Users can quickly toggle between different levels of IP hierarchy with one click, for improved usability and visibility.
• Fully Qualified Name Control: For organizations that have very long names for IPVs, this enhancement allows users to toggle how the IPV names are displayed, making lists of IPVs easier to read and parse.
• Hierarchy Group Display: Adds flexibility to group different items in the flat view (by IPV, IP Line, etc.), making it easier for users to visualize and understand everything included in a release. 

For a list of all new enhancements, bug fixes, and other details, review the release notes.

Please note that these UX/UI enhancements and all future IPLM Web and IPLM Cache updates will only be available to organizations that have upgraded to the IPLM Core 2024.1 release or higher.

Contact your Account Executive to schedule your migration. 

What's New in IPLM Web?

Helix IPLM Web 2024.2

Streams Support

With this release, Helix IPLM Web now supports Perforce Streams, the superior branching and merging functionality in Helix Core, as a native DM type. Streams, also known as P4Streams, will now work seamlessly with Helix IPLM out of the box, without the need for a custom DM handler.

Helix IPLM’s native support for the P4Stream DM type IPs enables IPLM users to benefit from the dynamic, intuitive branching and merging capabilities of Perforce Streams.

For a list of all new features, enhancements, and bug fixes, review the release notes.

What's New in Helix IPLM Web?

Helix IPLM Web 2024.1

Helix IPLM Web 2024.1 includes the following key features and enhancements. For a list of all new features, enhancements, and bug fixes, review the release notes.

UX/UI Enhancements

This year, we are continuing to expand upon the user experience improvements we brought to Helix IPLM Web in 2023. This release consolidates IP Details on collapsible cards for better visibility of IPV details and improved navigation, ease of use, and efficiency.

This release also improves IPV Bill of Materials (BoM) navigation by consolidating the Resources and Contents pages into a single page, with Resources (now called “Hierarchy”) and Contents visible on tabs within the page.

Flat Hierarchy View

The Hierarchy page (previously called "Resources") can now be “flattened” from a hierarchical tree view to a single-level list to make it easier to view and parse large lists of resources. The flat view provides a more flexible visualization for sorting, filtering, and understanding resource information.
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