Mid-Quarter Release, May 30, 2025 & Inspire Software 9.1 Release, April 16th, 2025
Mid-Quarter Release May 30, 2025
Strategy-to-Strategy Alignment + Filters
Connect Every Level of Strategy to the Bigger Picture: Great strategy isn’t static—it’s layered. These tools ensure your goals stay connected to your company’s direction, no matter how complex your org structure gets.
- Alignment Enhancements: Create distinct strategies and connect them to a top-level organizational strategy. Establish vertical alignments to maintain multiple levels of hierarchy or specific department/division strategies linking to an overall strategy to ensure alignment from team-level outcomes all the way to the executive vision.
- Strategy Filtering by Department/BU: Tag CKRs and LTKRs by department or business unit. Selected association(s) / tag(s) will drive filtering for the strategy and strategy reports. Department and business unit filters will show or hide strategic key results rather than dynamically changing progress based on aligned users in the department or business unit.
Permission Management
Smarter Access Control, Less Manual Work
- Group-Based Permissions: Manage permissions by group instead of individual users. Quickly view who has Admin rights and update access with ease.
Explorer Enhancements
Data That Works the Way You Do: Personalized reporting means less digging, more doing. It’s the power to track what matters—your way.
- Saved Views in Explorer: Create and save multiple custom views beyond the default. Admins can build organization-wide views, while individual users can create personal ones for day-to-day focus. Save filters and columns to return to exactly the data you need.
Additional Enhancements
- CRM Integration Enhancements: Introducing a new standardized experience across CRM integrations to streamline setup and usability.
- Key Result Simplifications:
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- Owners can update completed units while setting up or editing key results
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- Now add negative values in start, target, or completed fields
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- Enable KRs to vertically align to CKRs even when directionality differs (e.g., increasing to decreasing)
- OKR Progress Notifications: New alerts to help users stay accountable and update key result progress on time.
- Revised Appraisal Downloads: Now includes sign-off dates and full comment history for more complete and transparent reviews.
- Strategy Hierarchy Update: Key Results will now serve as the lowest level nodes in the hierarchy instead of contributors—making structure simpler and more consistent.
We are thrilled to announce the latest features in our 9.1.0 release, which are meticulously designed to provide you with a more intuitive, efficient, and secure experience. Stay tuned for more exciting updates as we continue to enhance Inspire Software.
Corporate Strategy
Hierarchy display settings: Customize your view by showing or hiding numeric KR details, dates, and the hierarchy controls to suit your strategic needs.
Strategy timeline display settings: Tailor your timeline with the option to show or hide the corporate objective owner, strategic key result owner, and dates, offering a clear overview of progress.
Check-in on strategic key results: Seamlessly enter status updates for CKRs or LTKRs and instantly post to the Newsfeed, keeping everyone in the loop.
Additional Strategy enhancements:
- Monitor actual units complete with ease.
- Identify private OKRs with a simple icon.
- Effortlessly adjust or remove alignment team objectives directly from the strategy hierarchy.
- Show or hide priority and numeric details from the timeline for a refined focus.
Objectives
Objective tags: Enhance your organization by tagging OKRs and filtering by tags in the explorer, making it easier to track and manage objectives.
Observer check-ins: Empower users not directly contributing to key result progress to provide valuable status updates.
Additional Objective enhancements:
- Recognize check-ins easily from the objective side panel.
- View key result dates in read-only objective views, enhancing transparency.
- Ensure new team KRs are defaulted to Shared progress, fostering collaboration.
Objective Explorer
Privacy filter/column and Project filter/column: Refine your search and organization with the addition of Privacy and Project filters/columns, making your explorer more intuitive.
1-1
Generate an agenda summary with Inspire AI: Quickly draft an agenda summarizing the status of objectives with the help of Inspire AI, streamlining your preparation.
Initiate a conversation in the 1-1 with Inspire AI: Easily start a conversation with your manager in the 1-1, using Inspire AI to create draft suggestions for a smooth dialogue.
Performance
Performance Cycle customizations: Administrators can now disable the grade sheet for a cycle and adjust the placement of the Summary tab, offering greater flexibility in managing performance cycles.
Download appraisals: Download a PDF version of an appraisal in the Performance module or profile. Admins can download specific user appraisals (active or archived) or export all appraisals for any cycle, with downloads provided as .zip files containing one file per cycle participant.
Plan
Reassign tasks: Seamlessly reassign tasks, ensuring efficient task management if task assignment is enabled for your organization.
Suggest tasks with AI Assistant: Propel your OKR progress forward by generating high-impact tasks from the Objective Activity widget or Weekly Plan, thanks to our AI Assistant.
Reports
Custom Task Report: Create personalized views of tasks to efficiently track completion and status, keeping you on top of your objectives.
Integrations
Excel: Integrate strategic, team, and individual key results with Excel for a comprehensive overview.
Slack: Receive Inspire notifications within your Slack workspace, staying informed and connected.
Additional Enhancements
Refreshed login experience: Enjoy enhanced security and a sleek new look with our updated login interface.
Localization: We are thrilled to announce that Chinese is now available as a locale, making our platform more accessible to a broader audience.
These updates are designed to provide you with a more intuitive, efficient, and secure experience. Stay tuned for more exciting features in the future!
If you have any questions about our newest features and updates from the 9.1 release, please contact us at support@inspiresoftware.com.