Blue APIs

Blue is a comprehensive platform tailored for diverse feedback needs across your organization, facilitating data-driven decision-making. Equipped with a robust reporting engine and dynamic dashboards, it delivers timely and relevant results to the appropriate stakeholders. Unlike conventional survey software, Blue goes beyond, addressing popular feedback initiatives, from student instruction evaluations to workplace employee engagement. It integrates seamlessly, automates processes effectively, and employs a powerful reporting engine to not only capture feedback but also transform it into informed decisions. Centralizing all feedback initiatives, including applicant and onboarding surveys, teaching evaluations, competency assessments, and various others, Blue ensures a holistic approach to enhance learning outcomes, engagement, and organizational culture.

Blue 9: Enhancing Feedback Collection

Blue 9 is a recent enhancement that aids in identifying areas requiring additional data for action plans, supporting optimal learning outcomes, engagement, and organizational culture. Tailored for complex evaluations, it boosts response rates. The platform boasts a robust reporting engine and dynamic dashboards, ensuring the timely delivery of accurate results to relevant stakeholders. Blue 9 prioritizes security and confidentiality, employing the latest in cloud solutions. It allows rapid scalability through a single-tenant application and fosters innovation through Restful APIs, facilitating the seamless integration of diverse applications. This unified user environment centralizes feedback and reporting, enabling the incorporation of new releases and the integration of existing products and external systems.

What’s new in Blue 9?

Enhanced User Interface and Customization

Home administration has upgraded its features, offering users an improved interface and administrators greater control over customization. The revamped portal provides access to Tasks and Reports with a more visually appealing experience. Admins can customize the homepage, adjusting widget layouts and settings for a personalized environment. The new Task Expiry Alerts feature highlights tasks approaching completion, enabling proactive management of deadlines. Users can now personalize their profiles through My Account, including options like display pictures and role descriptions. Importantly, these enhancements prioritize accessibility for all users with adherence to WCAG 2.1 certification.

Expanded Single Sign-On (SSO) Support and Branding Customization

The Expanded Single Sign-On (SSO) Support is noteworthy, with Blue now supporting various SSO protocols, including SAML 2.0, Okta, CAS, WS-Federation, OpenID, Google, Microsoft Account, and Facebook. Administrators gain greater control over the platform's visual identity through Branding Customization, allowing customization of logos and environment names. Furthermore, Localization Enhancements empower administrators to define preferred time zones and date/time formats, enhancing consistency and user control across the unified Blue Home, Admin, and Tasks experiences. Overall, system administration aims to provide a secure, user-friendly, and customizable platform for organizations to streamline their operations.

Enhancements in API

Following the launch of Blue 9, significant enhancements have been made to the Blue APIs, marking a strategic move to broaden the tool set within the Blue platform.

Blue API Expansion

The Blue APIs now include Home administration's bookmark APIs and system administration APIs, in addition to the existing Blue core APIs. This expansion represents a strategic move towards providing users with a more comprehensive and versatile set of tools within the Blue platform. The Blue administration APIs continue to remain the same; however, they are integrated seamlessly. To learn more about Blue administration APIs, visit the Blue administration API section.

Home administration's Bookmark APIs

Home administration introduces new API features, allowing users to bookmark tasks and reports for convenient tracking within the system. This customization enhances user experience by providing easy access to frequently visited items. The APIs also enable the integration of bookmarking functionality into external systems, offering flexibility to meet diverse preferences and system requirements. To learn more about Home administration APIs, visit the Home administration API section.

The holistic approach of these new features reflects Blue's commitment to expanding functionality while prioritizing a user-friendly and secure environment within the Blue ecosystem.