What is new at Elium – latest product updates

February 2024: a look at some of the most important updates from the past few months.

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1. Answer AI – instant answers from files and videos

Answer AI is your new AI companion, providing instant answers to your questions, searching inside files, and even videos.

Type a question and Answer AI responds. Give feedback on the result to help it improve.

• File indexing: Answer AI can now generate results based on files uploaded to Elium. Whether it’s a PDF or Word document, you can now pose questions and receive accurate answers.
• Searching in videos: Answer AI can find the right answer, even if it has to search inside video files.
• Feedback on Answers: We’ve integrated a feedback mechanism for answers generated by Answer AI. Beta users can provide feedback directly through the administration panel.

2. AI writing support inside the editor

AI in Elium goes beyond Answer – it starts at content creation.

Highlight any text in the editor and a new option lets you refine it with AI: summarise, translate, rephrase, or fix spelling.

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3. Approval – validate content before it goes live

Content Approval lets you validate any piece of content before it gets published on the platform.

In short:

• Contributors can request approval for their content before publishing.
• Approvers can request corrections and discuss with contributors before approving.

Every piece of published content stays accurate, up-to-date, and ready to use.

4. Native integration with Microsoft 365

Elium is now an official Office 365 Cloud Storage Partner.

Users can edit Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents directly in Elium – no switching apps, no downloading and re-uploading files.

Multiple people can edit the same document at once, making collaboration faster and cutting friction out of the workflow.

Discover more from this integration here

5. A more consistent experience

We’ve worked to make the app more coherent and intuitive – grouping related features and reworking components for a more unified experience.

The most visible change in this version is the reworked navigation.

Two new tabs have been added: “My contents” and “Knowledge management”.

Knowledge management workflows were previously scattered throughout the app. That’s now fixed – every Knowledge Management task sits in one place.

6. Productivity upgrades

After addressing consistency, we shifted focus to productivity – giving users a clear view of every task needed to keep the knowledge base accurate.

Explore the new tabs and you’ll notice the shift from a simple list to a table. Information is clearer, more structured, and easier to act on – making content management more efficient.

Grouped actions (bulk actions) are now available on every new table: with a few clicks you can handle all the tasks in one go. These updates apply across every table in the app, for a more consistent experience throughout.

7. Smarter multilingual handling

Language management has always been one of Elium’s strong points.

Users can now register multiple languages instead of just one, and Elium uses that preference to display content in the right one.

Take a user who speaks French and German on a platform with English as the default. If content is translated into English and German, Elium would previously show English. Now it shows German – one of the user’s chosen languages.

8. Simpler content succession

Assigning a successor now triggers the succession process directly.

Previously, you had to deactivate the user whose content was being transferred before the workflow could start – which defeated the point, since succession is meant to happen before an owner leaves.

9. Publisher info in version history

The person publishing a version isn’t always its owner.

We’ve clarified this in version history: hover the version badge to see the date and the publisher.

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