The future and 2c8 Apps
2024
AD Synchronization
In larger organizations, AD (Active Directory) is often used to manage tasks, accesses, and accounts for employees. With AD synchronization, you can synchronize selected parts of your user directory to 2c8 Portal. This streamlines user management in 2c8 Portal by automatically adding, deleting, or updating user information when changes are made to your AD – without the need for manual work.
Released: 2024
Single Sign-On
With Single Sign-On support in 2c8 Apps, you can leverage your organization’s existing login solutions to log in to 2c8 Apps. This reduces the amount of manual logins and increases the security of the solution.
Released: 2024
2c8 Lite becomes 2c8 Modeling Tool
2c8 Lite now has the same design, layout, and experience as 2c8 Modeling Tool – but with fewer features. This not only helps 2c8 Modeling Tool users understand the 2c8 Lite product (and vice versa), but also streamlines development and bug fixes in the product.
Released: 2024
2025
Open APIs
Open APIs allow you to get more out of 2c8 Apps through seamless integrations with other systems.
Planned release: 2025
2c8 Live
With 2c8 Live, we remove the manual process of publishing models and instead enable real-time publication updates. This way, you can ensure that employees always have access to updated information and reduce the time you spend maintaining the infrastructure around your publication.
- Users can focus on modeling instead of publishing.
- Always up-to-date material.
- No individual dependency for publication.
- Enable access control – share models that are accessible to everyone by link.
- No need for IT resources to set up web servers, FTP servers or access.
Planned release: 2025
Better management of plugins
Customers using plugins often experience problems with who should install and distribute the plugin, which versions are needed, and whether they are compatible with the system for which the plugin was created.
The goal in future versions is to let the 2c8 server be responsible for providing plugins to customers so that everyone (with the right access) automatically gets a version that is compatible with both the version of 2c8 Apps that the organization uses and the third-party system that the plugin connects to. The provision of plugins thus becomes a centralized task where users no longer need to know which plugins they need but receive the plugins chosen by an administrator for their system.
Planned release: 2025
2026
More possibilities with lists and matrices
Beyond visualization, 2c8 Apps has many powerful features based on the data created when you place objects, draw relationships between them, or use fields. With lists, matrices, or custom relationships, you can get more out of your modeling, such as a matrix showing all roles with a primary responsibility within the organization. Currently, only 2c8 Apps users can create something using this functionality.
The project aims to make the functionality available to a broader group of people. Imagine that someone asks for a list of all systems that process personal data within the organization. In the future, based on what is already created in 2c8 Apps, this person can create a list without asking a user of the 2c8 Modeling Tool.
Planned release: 2026
Centralized settings and configurations
In future versions, you can manage all settings and configurations in one place. This could include description types, publishing profiles, user settings, application configurations, or branding with color profiles. Thus, you will be able to keep all settings and configurations in one place for central administration. Moving these tasks away from the modeling area also provides a better user experience, where the focus can be on modeling the business.
- Simplify 2c8 Modeling Tool for non-administrators.
- Only assigned administrators can now update metadata.
- More accessible for non-modeling administrators.
- More structured way to manage all types of profiles.
- No requirement to purchase the 2c8 Modeling Tool for non-modelers within your organization. For example, your marketing department that manages your graphic profile can set up a color profile for your models.
Planned release: 2026
2c8 Cloud
With 2c8 Cloud, you no longer need to install a client on your computer; you can model it directly in your browser. It is modern, intuitive, easy to upgrade, and there is no need for IT to install. 2c8 Cloud will simplify everything about your business modeling!
Planned release: 2026
Influence
Do you want to help shape the future of 2c8 Apps?
In the projects ahead, we are looking for customers to join focus groups for each individual project. Are you interested in being part of a focus group for one of the above projects, or would you like to know more about what it involves? Contact utveckling@2c8.com.