AVEVA Community Highlights | January 2025
Greetings Everyone!
We hope you had a wonderful Holiday Season and a joyous New Year (2025).
We have been working diligently this past year on our commitment to the Community based on your feedback.
Specifically, we:
- Conducted a detailed analysis and comprehensive assessment of both the AVEVA Community and the PI Square Community early in the year.
- As a result, we plan to bring together these two important communities in a carefully coordinated way that minimizes disruption to members. Bringing these two communities together will be accomplished in stages.
- Stage 1 will involve some backend changes to the AVEVA Community while maintaining/keeping the frontend member experience the same. Members should not notice any significant changes or impact. We will monitor these backend changes carefully.
- Stage 2 will involve merging the PI Square Community into the new community platform. While we plan to maintain the same navigation structure as PI Square has now, there will be some minor changes to member experience due to the change in merging to a unified platform. Likewise, we will monitor these changes very carefully.
- Once stage 2 has completed, stage 3 will begin to implement those changes that evolve the unified Community to Best-in-Class.
- As a result, we plan to bring together these two important communities in a carefully coordinated way that minimizes disruption to members. Bringing these two communities together will be accomplished in stages.
- ·Ran a survey on both Communities over the Summer of the community strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement along with your recommendations.
- Many of your recommendations will begin to be implemented in stage 3 as described earlier. This will be an exciting time for us all, as we are super focused on your success and the feedback you provided (and continue to provide) will help us get there!
- Built a continuously evolving and improved roadmap to implement starting this year (2025).
- With your input, we have ambitious plans to continuously evolve community improvements in several areas, for example:
- Site layouts – Optimizing the community site layout based on how you use the community.
- Forums – Organizing the Community forums in a simplified way based on your products and solutions
- Navigation – Minimizing the number of clicks you will need to get to the content you are navigating to
- Search – Providing a comprehensive search experience that intuitively provides results based your search keywords and key phrases. Additionally, providing for meta-search based on search results and characteristics.
- Personalization – Providing you the ability to personalize your community experience beyond what you can do now
- Notifications – Enhancing your ability to customize what you wish to be notified on, and how often you wish to be notified.
- With your input, we have ambitious plans to continuously evolve community improvements in several areas, for example:
- Identified several programs and integrations, from your feedback, that we believe will further improve your community experience, that we will begin to launch this year.
- We have several exciting programs we plan to launch this year and next that we hope you too will be excited to be a part of!
While we realize this will involve some change, we are very sensitive to disruptions to your Community experience and are committed to minimizing that disruption.
We know these changes will significantly improve your overall experience and we will continually listen to your feedback.
Please know that you can message me at any time with your questions and/or concerns.
As the year progresses, we will continually inform you of any changes, before, during, and after Community updates.
On a monthly basis, I hope to publish a brief newsletter in the Community on the changes we are implementing along with their benefits.
My best wishes to you all for a terrific year (2025)!
Bob.