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Newsletter 01/2021
We wish you a happy and healthy New Year!
In our first newsletter of 2021 we want to share many exciting news with you:
With the start of the year, we provide you with the new releases for TABEX4, MainTable and TABEX4 JTC!
We have implemented new features in the TABEX4 user management to make it even more user-friendly for you!
In summer 2020, the EU-US Privacy Shield Frameworks were declared invalid by the European Court of Justice. Thus, we have taken essential measures.
With the end of October 2020, we have completed the development of the first FreeDa alpha release!
2020 was a very challenging year for all of us. The less we could see each other, the more we could achieve by working together.
With the beginning of the new year, we have decided to make our BOI Wiki accessible for everyone.
We hope you enjoy reading our newsletter!
Daniele Haiböck-Sinner and the BOI Team
New software releases are available.
With the start of the year, we provide you with the new releases for TABEX4, MainTable and TABEX4 JTC!
After two months of intense testing, we are happy to present our new releases for TABEX4, MainTable and TABEX4 JTC to you. TABEX4 5.3.0 and TABEX4 JTC 6.0 are available for download in our Customer Portal. For MainTable 5.3.0, we will gladly provide you with the download files in our Customer Portal upon request.
We have enhanced the TABEX4 user management.
We have implemented new features in the TABEX4 user management to make it even more user-friendly for you!
There are two new menu items:
- 'Unblock user'
- 'Reset password'
And new options for password management:
By system setting, you can now define, that:
- user passwords expire after n days
- user passwords may be changed at the earliest of n days
- users may not re-use the last F passwords as new password
- a user is blocked after n failed login attempts within m minutes
- failed login attempts are logged in a sequential file.
- Furthermore, you can now define the minimum password length m as system setting (5<=m<=32).
Each system setting mentioned above is stored in an own OPSMSG table.
Do you need further information?
Data protection made in Europe.
In summer 2020, the EU-US Privacy Shield Frameworks were declared invalid by the European Court of Justice. Thus, we have taken essential measures.
Due to the sentence, the legal basis that justified some global enterprises to transfer personal data to the USA, is now invalid.
We at BOI are processing data based on valid legal regulations only. Therefore, we have taken the following measures:
- We have deactivated Google Analytics on our website.
- We are now using a newsletter tool of a European (German) company.
Do you have any questions?
The new RDB maintenance tool FreeDa - what has happened, what is planned.
With the end of October 2020, we have completed the development of the first FreeDa alpha release!
With the alpha release, our development partners and customers can discover the look and feel of our new RDB maintenance tool and test the first basic functionalities of the FreeDa data management, e.g., row operations as well as filter and sorting functions.
The beta release is scheduled for the second quarter of 2021. It will serve as basis version of FreeDa and contain enhanced functionalities for table management as well as the first basic options for administration:
- Direct managmeet of tables from PostgreSQL, MS SQL and Oracle
- Various ways to compare tables
- Table information / meta data
- User management
- Print and import / export functionalities (XLS / CSV)
- Housekeeping functions in FreeDa, e.g. delete locks
If you are interested in our FreeDa alpha release or like to discover the planned FreeDa maintenance processes via mockups,feel free to contact us or sign up for our FreeDa Forum! There, we discuss selected questions regarding our FreeDa development.
BOI in times of Corona.
2020 was a very challenging year for all of us. The less we could see each other, the more we could achieve by working together.
Together with our BOI Team, we have taken important steps in our product development despite the prevailing challenging conditions. And we have continued our excellent customer support even by working from home.
Together with our customers, we have discussed our product development during numerous online meetings and have worked together closely to realize our projects.
Together with our partners, we reviewed and substantiated our planning.
But that was not all:
The lockdown gave us the opportunity to broaden a component of our everyday life – one, that is sometimes left unattended in our fast-moving times: to take good care of ourselves and others.
We have taken the chance and committed to two projects: the workplace health promotion at BOI and the GivingTuesday.
The workplace health promotion is a project led by the Austrian governmental health insurance. The goal is, to improve the physical and mental health of every employee and principal. We at BOI are blessed with a very good working atmosphere. And yet we could gain some very useful approaches on how to improve our daily co-operation even more.
GivingTuesday, a global generosity movement, took place on December 1st 2020. Its goal is to establish a society of ethical justice and courtesy. We at BOI have decided to become a part of this movement. Following the motto „Giving is healthy!“, we transformed every of our health promoting ideas into a donation towards Diakonie Österreich. Our donation makes 90 online private lessons possible – during times, where supporting educationally disadvantaged children is especially important.
Learn more in our post on LinkedIn!
The BOI Wiki is now publicly available.
With the beginning of the new year, we have decided to make our BOI Wiki accessible for everyone.
In these times of limitations and restrictions, we want to send another signal of cooperation. Therefore, we have decided to make the profound knowledge our BOI Wiki is comprising accessible for you more easily. From now on, the BOI Wiki is publicly available!
Of course you can still rely on our excellent support for any technical questions.