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Looking to catch up on what’s new—or revisit key updates—in Employee Center (Pro)? This archive brings together all our release blogs and highlight webinars since the Rome release, offering a one-stop hub for everything we've delivered. Whether you're tracking feature evolution or exploring past enhancements, you'll find it all here.

 

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Yokohama

What’s new in Yokohama Release for Employee Center

January 2025 

  • Notifications for Employee Center
  • Search for Guided Self-Service topic via AI search
  • Favoriting Topic Pages, Topic page search enhancement, Auto-sync and Guided Tours for Advanced Portal Navigation
  • Appointment Booking
  • Company Events
  • Portal shortcuts to author News & CEW banner
  • Search for applications via AI Search
  • External Content Connector

Xanadu

What’s new in Xanadu Release for Employee Center

November 2024

  • Guided Self-Service enhancements
  • Taxonomy topic-based access control for performance improvements
  • Standalone Topic Pages as Microsites (Employee Center Pro)
  • Additional formatting tools for Rich Content Editor- Accordion, Table/Grid, Bulleted & Numbered list (Employee Center Pro)
  • Post-feedback loop (Employee Center Pro)
  • Now Assist Genius Results on Now Mobile

August 2024

  • Guided Self-Service
  • Enhancements to Employee Center Pro kiosk for Deskless Workers (Employee Center Pro)
  • Social engagement with News (Employee Center Pro)
  • Reusable News Article Templates (Employee Center Pro)
  • Portal shortcuts to author microsites (Employee Center Pro)
  • Content Operations Dashboard & Analytics (Employee Center Pro)
  • Surveys via Experience Feedback, Feedback via Now Mobile and Virtual Agent (Employee Center Pro)

Washington DC

What’s new in Washington DC Release for Employee Center

May 2024

  • Employee Center Pro Kiosk for Deskless Workers (Employee Center Pro)
  • Delivering Surveys via Service Feedback and other enhancements for Feedback capability (Employee Center Pro)

Feb 2024

  • Integrated Experience & Service Feedback (Employee Center Pro)
  • Enterprise video communications with pre-built Vbrick integration (Employee Center Pro)
  • Dotted line relationships (Employee Center Pro)
  • Rich Content Editor enhancements – source code editing, improved copy paste, clear button, auto-aligning images & videos (Employee Center Pro)
  • Out-of-the-box filters for Concur and Workday tasks
  • Support for right-to-left languages (Employee Center Pro)
  • E-signature available on My Tasks page

Vancouver

What’s new in Vancouver Release for Employee Center

November 2023

  • Employee Center Homepage enhancements – mega menu configurations, improved Information Architecture, Get Support widget, Favorites widget, My Active Items widget update, Tile Layout for CEW banner
  • Configurable Employee Profile header & widgets overview section
  • Employee News enhancements – Categories, Tile layout for Featured News widget, News feed grid layout & pagination, Ability to favorite News Articles (Employee Center Pro)
  • Now Mobile enhancements – Employee News in Now Mobile, Approvals in Now Mobile (Employee Center Pro)

August 2023

  • Employee News Experience (Employee Center Pro)
  • AI Search for Topic Microsites and Employee News (Employee Center Pro)
  • Drag & Drop layouts for Topic Microsites (Employee Center Pro)
  • Version management for Portal Content (Employee Center Pro)
  • Approvals Hub: Pre-built integration with Workday (Employee Center Pro)
  • Now Mobile enhancements

Utah

June 2023

  • Approvals Hub: Pre-built integration with Concur (Employee Center Pro)

May 2023

  • Enhanced personalization & Configuration on Employee Profile page
  • Employee Center integration with Zoom

February 2023

  • AI Search on Topic Pages
  • Taxonomy Topics as Filters on AI Search Page
  • Updating Taxonomy Topics with New Content
  • Enhancements to Rich Content Editor & Content Governance workflows (Employee Center Pro)

Tokyo

November 2022

  • Configurable filters on ‘My Task’ page
  • Dynamic Topic Microsites (Employee Center Pro)
  • Enterprise Service Management Success Dashboard – ITSM & HRSD
  • Create Recurring campaigns for Birthdays & Anniversaries (Employee Center Pro)

August 2022

  • Distributed Ownership of Topics
  • Configurable Approvals Experience
  • Personalized Answers (Available via Innovation Lab)
  • Enhanced Org Chart with Employee Profile (Employee Center Pro)
  • Content Governance (Employee Center Pro)
  • Manager Hub (Employee Center Pro)
  • Translation support for Content Publishing (Employee Center Pro)

San Diego

What’s new in San Diego & Rome for Employee Center

San Diego enhancements to Employee Center

May 2022

  • Cross-channel Favourites
  • Enhanced Employee Profile page
  • Custom Topic Page templates
  • Carousel Layout for Content Experience Widget Banner (Employee Center Pro)
  • Enhancements to App Launcher including pre-built Okta integration (Employee Center Pro)
  • Embedded image editor for Content Library (Employee Center Pro)

February 2022

  • App Launcher (Employee Center Pro)
  • Content Manager Ownership for Topics (Employee Center Pro)
  • Portal preview while authoring communications (Employee Center Pro)
  • Publish Videos on Content Experiences Widget (Employee Center Pro)

Rome

November 2021

  • Quick links in mega menu
  • Enhancements to Quick links widget
  • Enhancements to ‘My Items’ widget
  • New Content Authoring & Publishing experience (Employee Center Pro)
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Wow, this is an incredibly useful summary — thanks for putting it all together...! It’s really handy to see how Employee Center (Pro) has evolved release by release, especially with so many enhancements like AI Search, Guided Self-Service, content governance, and kiosk support for deskless workers.

The new features like topic-based microsites, reusable news templates, and external content connectors look especially powerful for large organizations. It’s great to have everything archived in one place to track how these updates build on each other. Really appreciate you sharing this!

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