Release Notes

The release notes provide information about new features in focusMT.

V25.01 (Strategy Alignment), May 2025

Guiding Principles

Guiding Principles can be used in focusMT to succinctly describe the identity and core beliefs of organisations, laying the foundation for strategic planning. The elements of a guiding principle are: Purpose (Why do we exist?), Vision (What do we want to be in the long term?), Mission (How do we get there?), and Values (How do we want to work together?). Although guiding principles are typically formulated only for the top-level organisational unit (and thus implicitly apply to all units), the elements can also be applied at lower structural levels if needed.

Strategic Areas of Action

For each organisational unit, one or more strategies can be defined in focusMT. Strategies have a time frame (usually spanning several years) and consist of strategic domains and strategic areas of action, which can be defined within focusMT. All strategic areas of action can be actively tracked with actions and reviews. In addition, goals, KPIs, and projects can be linked to each strategic area of action to illustrate and make transparent complex interrelationships.

All modal input or display forms (popups) can now be moved across the screen, allowing users to still view information from the background form.

Error Handling

For all errors in display and input dialogues, specific error messages with helpful hints are now shown. Each message includes a unique error number so that the support team can quickly identify and resolve the issue.

Structure Displays (TreeViews)

All treeviews now include a search function to quickly find elements. After entering a search term, the tree expands to reveal the matching results for easy access. Additionally, the treeviews now feature new icons for each object type and folder and have been visually compressed to better handle large trees.

UX Monitoring

Several user suggestions have been implemented in the monitoring section:

Consistent display of KPI visualisations
Display of target values as a continuous line
More compact display of all visual elements
Consistent formatting of all KPI values with defined decimal places and thousand separators (based on user culture) in all charts and tables
Automatic distribution of planned and target values
Correct calculation of forecast and aggregated values for plan, actual, and forecast data
Unified headers in all input and display forms