1C-Bitrix: Corporate portal

1C-Bitrix: A corporate portal — the software product for creation of the internal information resource solving communication, organizational and HR tasks of the company. The solution is developed by 1C Bitrix company.

Features

• 25 functional modules and more than 500 ready components for the most often found tasks enter regular delivery of a product. It means that you will be able quickly to get to work with the portal and to increase its functionality it as required.

In a product the principles of Enterprise 2.0 – use of tools, simple, effective, familiar and usual for the user, from Web – the social networks, instant messages, search, a tag cloud, forums, blogs and other services simplifying information search and internal communications are actively applied.

• The product is easily integrated into IT infrastructure of the company, having a big set of regular interfaces to different services and services: An Active Directory, Microsoft Office, "1C: Payroll and HR Management", import/export of data in different formats.
• The server of the portal can work under management as Windows, LinuxUnix and / and other platforms, depending on corporate standards and requirements of IT services. Technical requirements provide also use at choice of several DBMS: MySQL Oracle Miscrosoft SQL Server.

Cost

The basic packet on 25 users costs only 34,500 rub. This version provides the license for 25 users. The license for the additional user for "1C-Bitrix: The corporate portal" allows to increase number of active users of a system. The cost of each additional user of a system is 500 rubles.

1C-Bitrix: Corporate portal 9.5

Specially developed license policy serves in order that provide to clients three approaches to management of communications in the company. Starting with version 9.5, "1C-Bitrix: The corporate portal" extends in three editions (Company, Joint work, Business processes), each of which meets different market requirements.

• Edition "Company" allows to create a full-fledged corporate portal which is in the company an official source of news in 4 hours, is uniform storage location of corporate rules and instructions, contains information on the company, including its organization structure and an employee database. Edition is offered at the fixed price of 19,900 rubles without number of users, for the company of any scale.

• Edition "Joint work" includes all advantages of edition "Company" and also contains tools for increase in efficiency of team work in the organization. Employees can manage tasks and instructions, to work with the calendar, projects, to use WiKi and the Extranet. Edition "Joint work" allows employees to communicate effectively with each other even if colleagues are scattered on offices and the different cities. To convenience of all staff of the company, edition "Joint work" includes corporate service of short messages, personal blogs and a possibility of video conferencing. Edition is offered at the price of 59,500 rubles and includes the license for 25 users. The license for the additional user participating in joint work will cost 500 rubles.

• Edition "Business processes" integrates in itself functionality of the previous editions and provides flexible instruments of visual design, business of processes and management of records (record management). Tools will allow the management to control accomplishment of key business processes, in time to reveal a problem, to increase quality and to increase the speed of processes. Edition is offered at the price of 99,500 rubles and includes the license for 25 users. The license for the additional user will cost 500 rubles.

Within a new license policy current clients "1C-Bitrix: A corporate portal" have an opportunity to pass free of charge to any of new editions.

New clients can load and test free of charge work of any edition of a product within 90 days. For convenience of IT of specialists, the installer for fast deployment of a product in the environment of Windows and Linux is prepared.

1C-Bitrix: Corporate portal 10.0

Version 10.0 is a new product with new opportunities and concepts for task management and projects, a time recording, with the CRM system, "a live tape" of updates, microblogs, integration with products of Microsoft, Google and Apple and also with tools for increase in efficiency of each individual employee and all company in general.

One of the most anticipated tools of the new version is "Tasks 2.0", task management system and projects with reports on efficiency of each employee, each department and all organization. Often the companies experience difficulty in motivating the employee to work with tasks on the portal and to fully use this tool. "Tasks 2.0" actively involve self-organization: the employee can independently set to himself tasks and accept them from the head.

In the report on efficiency the head sees data on sense of duty of employees, departments and of all company. Efficiency will be determined by number of the executed, overdue tasks and also depends on task assessment by the head of department. Each employee can look at the data on efficiency and compare to final results of the department.

The new system "Taymmenedzhment 2.0" serves for a time recording "without checkpoint", for increase in discipline without creation of tension in the company, allows to construct discipline of any degree of rigidity depending on the choice of the head. In a system the beginning and the end of the working day is considered (the sheet of the working days is kept). Employees can note the beginning of the working day "backdating", having requested confirmation from the head. The Working day interface helps to plan tasks and events per day, to note the beginning and the end of the working day, to write the report in a day.

1C-Bitrix: Corporate portal 11.0

The 1C-Bitrix company announced in November, 2011 release of the new version of a product "1C-Bitrix: Corporate portal 11.0".

"We help the companies to become more effective. "Planning meetings" and Working reports will allow much to cope with scale-up problems really. For service companies of the Task and time management will help to get rid of losses. Joint work in the companies becomes more and more social. Business becomes social. It does a working environment transparent and friendly for employees" - Sergey Ryzhikov, the CEO of 1C-Bitrix company told.

In the new version "1C-Bitrix: Corporate portal 11.0" is developed Meetings and Planning Meetings service. Planning meetings - the obligatory instrument of activity of any organization which, unfortunately, is not automated in any way preparation is conducted by correspondence by e-mail, results are recorded at best by the letter, effective objectives are not executed, meetings take place long and inefficiently. The new tool in the Corporate portal reduces time for preparation, does convenient and fast carrying out and collecting of the reporting under a meeting, allows to control execution of the objects set at a meeting, to store history and to provide "transparency" of all process for the management.

In "1C-Bitrix: Corporate portal 11.0" is implemented There Is an Idea? service which involves the potential of staff of the company. Any employee can offer the idea for business development of the company, estimate the ideas of the colleagues, comment on them. All positive votes or are contra considered, and on the basis of opinion of staff of the company the rating of the idea forms.

Also the simple and convenient instrument of preparation and verification of "Working reports" is presented in the new version. Now it is even not reports in the usual sense, and a part of process of communications with very important feedback, so to the necessary employee and the head. Weekly or in a month the employee prepares "The working report" for the head using a special form on a corporate portal, and the head estimates this report – gives a positive or negative mark. All changes according to the report are available to the head and the employee in "a live tape" and right there it is possible to discuss them. Employees quickly receive a feedback for improvement of the work. The new tool does transparent the reporting at all levels of the company and allows to see quickly problem sections and to use reports for development of KPI of employees and departments.

In version 11.0 each employee of the company can vote for the message, the document or the comment the It Is Pleasant to Me button. To the employees it is important that their materials are seen, read and even if do not comment. We got used to it on the Internet – we get a lot of support from friends and colleagues in the form of "likes". An opportunity to see who estimated you, can inspire the employee on creativity and considerably big activity in the company; it is the fantastic potential for development of the relations in the company, for motivation of employees.

1C-Bitrix: Corporate portal 11.5

"The social intranet" – the new approach to joint work allowing to use in a corporate portal all advantages of social networks, such as: an instant feedback from colleagues ("likes" and comments), "a live tape", internal messages, social search and others. "The social intranet" increases efficiency and allows each of employees to become more successful.

In the new version "1C-Bitrix: Corporate portal 11.5" the following changes are included:

• two versions of the Classical and Bitriks24 interface;
• new system of internal messages;
• built-in Web messenger;
• instruments of visual design of structure of the company;
• an opportunity to make the working group available to work in Ekstraneta;
• business process integration with tasks and CRM;
• new interface of Calendars and many other things.

Starting with version 11.5, in delivery "1C-Bitrix: A corporate portal" two versions of the interface – Classical and "Bitriks24" called so by name a new cloud service which start announced 1C-Bitrix on April 12 are included. The new interface is already implemented in Bitriks24 service, and now all its advantages are available in a shrink-wrapped software product "1C-Bitrix: Corporate portal".

In the Bitriks24 interface, unlike Classical, in the center – Live Tape of updates on the portal from which employees instantly learn about any changes: new messages and comments of colleagues, new tasks and events, photos and many other things. One more important difference – the Add button – the uniform center of access to task management, calendars, files and messages – allows to perform quickly the necessary operation from any page of the portal.

Developers presented the new system of internal messages in version 11.5. Colleagues can send the message to one click, directly from "A live tape" now. Addressing personally to the employee, at once several employees, department of the company or the working group is provided in messages. It is possible to attach the document, the photo or video to the message and to discuss with colleagues.

In a product the internal Web messenger – the safe and effective instrument of communication for employees is implemented. For work with the web messenger it is not necessary to install third-party programs – message exchange and is executed by files on the portal via the normal browser. All correspondence with colleagues is stored on the portal in the history – with the built-in search in a message archive. The web messenger allows to refuse installation in the company of XMPP servers and special Jabber-clients.

In version 11.5 the structure of the company can be designed visually – "drag" the employee's mouse from one department in another enough, change heads of departments, add new employees. Subordination in structure influences practically everything: who to whom sends reports, who can delegate a task, etc.

In version 11.5 work in Ekstraneta does not require a separate template. Employees always work now in a corporate portal. Thanks to the thought-over system of differentiation of access rights to information employees can invite in the working groups of Ekstranet of external users, place in them documents and files – Ekstranet's users will not get access to the closed internal information.

Business processes in version 11.5 are integrated with tasks and CRM. Now it is possible to add a task to any stage of business process and to appoint the responsible. Integration with CRM allows to automate processing of leads according to the necessary business process. On each business process it is possible to create automatically now the report which will remain in the history of business process. It is possible to add a formula to parameters of any action (for example, to insert into a field with start date of a task).

In Calendars the interface simplifying work with events is considerably updated. In a grid of Calendar tasks are displaid now, and it is possible to distribute quickly the working time or to estimate loading of group on work on the project. The universal Add multi-button allows to create easily in Calendar: a new event, including, an event through Scheduler, a task, the new internal or external calendar.

1C-Bitrix: Corporate portal 12.5

Among updates: mobile CRM, account management, video calls, fast viewing and editing documents using Google Docs and another. Also cloud service of "Bitriks24" opens API that will allow each web developer to expand possibilities of service with own completions independently.

Mobile CRM and account management

In the new version the functionality of mobile application extends: there is an opportunity to work in CRM – to browse transactions, accounts, contacts and meetings. This updating will be especially useful for the companies whose staff of sales department often is "on departure". Now contact customer information, information on meetings and the history of cooperation will be available to them from any mobile device – the tablet or the smartphone, as based on iOS, and Android. According to forecasts of analysts of Gartner Research, growth of number of downloadings of applications of mobile CRM in app stores will grow by 2014 by 500%. The possibility of operational work of employees using mobile devices becomes serious competitive advantage for the companies.

One more important updating of CRM in a product "1C-Bitrix: A corporate portal" and a cloud service of "Bitriks24" there was an opportunity to work with accounts. Now to make out bills and also it is possible to set their statuses (from sending to the client before receiving payment) directly in CRM. Invoices can be sent to clients by e-mail in the PDF format directly from CRM.

The innovation will significantly increase transparency of work of sales department as now in CRM it is possible to trace all chain of work with clients – from emergence of a "cold" lead before completion of sale. The transparency of processes of work of sales department allows to increase its efficiency as it is possible to find weak points in work now. In the near future developers are going to release integration of CRM about "1C: Enterprise" for synchronization of data on invoices and the received payments.

Free video calls

Video calls without restrictions and tariffing became available to all users of the desktop application of a cloud service of "Bitriks24" and product "1C-Bitrix: Corporate portal 12.5". The new functionality will be also available to those who use the latest version of the Google Chrome browser. For commission of video calls installation of new plug-ins or special settings are not required.

Service of video calls is developed using WebRTC technology which provides high quality of video transmission and echo suppression, thanks to the used mechanisms of adaptation of a signal under the changing reality conditions.

For the companies which staff is limited in use of the Internet, installation of the media server thanks to which video calls can be made in corporate network, without passing of traffic through external services is offered.

Editing documents in Google Docs – an alternative to a packet of office programs

Users of a corporate portal on the platform 1C-Bitrix and a cloud service of "Bitriks24" can edit the documents uploaded on the portal without installing a packet of office applications of Microsoft Office on the PC. An opportunity is implemented due to integration with Docs Google service. For viewing and editing files in popular office formats to the user online is enough to be – the document will automatically open in Google Docs, and all made corrections will be saved on the portal.

"Bitriks24. A disk" for Mac OS X

Possibilities of the cloud storage for work with documents "Bitriks24. A disk" are available also to users of Mac OS X now. Earlier this functionality was available only to users of devices based on MS Windows.

Cloud storage "Bitriks24. The disk" allows to work with documents and files, even being offline and also to share them with colleagues. Synchronization of the changes made to the document is automatic even if they became in the absence of the Internet. The cloud storage is connected on the computer "in one click" through the desktop application: on the computer of the user there is a folder, and all files saved in it automatically are transferred to a cloud of "Bitriks24" where all change history is stored.

Open API

The cloud service of "Bitriks24" opens API that will allow developers to supplement possibilities of service with the applications, to customize service under needs of users. It will be possible to integrate with service as the third-party applications working at a separate hosting and the applications developed especially for "Bitriks24" and which are built in its interface. In the near future the 1C-Bitrix company is going to open a marketplace of applications for Bitriks24 service. Experience of the company shows that this very demanded direction – app store for shrink-wrapped software products works more than 1.5 years, in it over 1000 applications are submitted now.

Management of records of the company

"Universal lists" – the convenient management tool records (record management) of the company are available to users of a cloud service of "Bitriks24" now. Using "Universal lists" it is possible to organize such business processes as accounting of the entering / outgoing correspondence, maintaining the register of agreements and also to adjust accounting and storage of any others of structured data, to refer to them. The similar tool is often necessary for the companies, regardless of their size or a field of activity. Earlier this functionality was available only to clients of a product "1C-Bitrix: Corporate portal".

Updating: cloud storage "Bitriks24. A disk" and the application for tablets

The 1C-Bitrix company provided in March, 2013 updates of a cloud service "Bitriks24" and a product "1C-Bitrix: Corporate portal". Now work with corporate files moves to a new level: in service the cloud storage "Bitriks24 appeared. A disk" for work with documents, there was also application for tablets on popular platforms iOS and Android, improvements concerned CRM system.

Corporate "Dropbox"

On March 7, 2013 1C-Bitrix Bitriks24 started for testing the beta of the cloud storage ". A disk" for users of Bitriks24 service and a product "1C-Bitrix: A corporate portal", giving opportunity to get access to working documents and files from any device even being offline and also to share them with colleagues.

After connection "Bitriks24. The disk" creates the special folder on the computer of the user and copies in it documents from the portal. At making changes in copies of documents from the portal "Bitriks24. The disk automatically synchronizes changes in documents on the portal. The SSL protocol provides safe data transmission.

The files saved in the folder automatically are transferred to a cloud of "Bitriks24" where all change history will be stored. If necessary it is possible to recover even remote files which were moved to a basket.

"Earlier files could be loaded via the web interface or having connected a network drive through WebDAV, i.e. Internet access for access to files was necessary. Now access can be got always. It is also main advantage. Plus – the company saves all information on the resources, nothing is lost and "leaves" together with the left employee", - explained TAdviser in 1C-Bitrix.

The available limit of storage is defined by a rate framework, told TAdviser in the company. For example, for a rate Company it makes it 100 GB. For the box version of a product the volume of storage will be limited to the server where the company stores data.

At launch in March, 2013 "Bitriks24. The disk" became available only to users of Windows OS. The release of the version for Mac computers is planned for April, 2013. April version "Bitriks24. A disk" will also support synchronization of documents of groups and the company and to support shared folders for employees.

The application for tablets

At Bitriks24 service and "1C-Bitrix: A corporate portal" there was application for the tablets working both at iOS and on Android. Users of tablet devices will be able to read "A live tape", to place photos, to send messages and comments, to discuss projects, to work with documents, to browse the documents saved in "Bitriks24. Disk".

The application for tablets and the released earlier mobile application are integrated with calendars that allows to appoint and confirm directly from devices meetings. Push-notifications will allow to be aware of important working events even at the closed application.

Besides, directly from the mobile device registration of new accounts in "Bitriks24" is available now.

It will be possible download applications for smartphones and tablets in App Store shops (www.itunes.com/appstore) and Google Play Market (play.google.com).

Improvements of the CRM system

One of the most popular reasons of use of Bitriks24 service is the CRM system. After updating in it navigation and interfaces became much more convenient, they are processed taking into account researches of behavior of users.

Now the majority of the most widespread operations in CRM can be performed without excess clicks, it concerns, first of all, the interface of work with "transaction" – editing information on it, creations of new transactions, visualization and possibilities of switching of implementation phases, a new output format of information on the transaction.

There was an opportunity to look for information only on CRM and to create own templates of search in the "smart" filter – these updates provide online access to information. In the filter also the preset forms corresponding to 90% of regularly set search queries are put.

After updates users will be able not only to send to potential clients of the letter from CRM as it was earlier, but also to create templates of letters for themselves and for colleagues. Besides, it became possible to make calls through the IP telephony applications directly from the interface of the CRM system.