Latest Features in IP Lifecycle Management

What's New in IPLM Core

IPLM Core 2025.1

Persistent Event Notification

With this release, the IPLM Core events notification system can now be configured to be persistent to ensure important notifications are seen and can be acted upon. Previously, a notification would disappear after a certain amount of time, even if no one had seen it. Organizations can configure how they want to view and dismiss notifications.

For a list of all new features, enhancements, and bug fixes, review the release notes.

What's New in IPLM Core

IPLM Core 2024.4

View Permissions in Planning BOM

With this release, the IPLM Planning module now supports View permissions. This allows users to view the Planning Bill of Materials (BOM), as well as add, edit, or delete any planned IPs they have View permission for. This expands the pool of resources organizations can include in planning, while maintaining the appropriate level of security for all IPs.

For a list of all new features, enhancements, and bug fixes, review the release notes.

What's New in IPLM Core

IPLM Core 2024.3

Enhanced Quick Filters

This release brings a new approach and a new look to quick filters. When entering catalog searches, each label, library, and property choice value now shows a count of the results that will be returned if that option is selected. These updates offer a better, e-commerce-like user experience, addressing what has been a popular enhancement request.

For a list of all new features, enhancements, and bug fixes, review the release notes.

Please note that these enhancements and all future IPLM Web and IPLM Cache updates will only be available to organizations that have upgraded to the IPLM Core 2024.1 release or higher.

Contact your Account Executive to schedule your migration. 

What's New in IPLM Core

IPLM Core 2024.2

Single Sign-On (SSO)

IPLM Core now supports single sign-on (SSO), using the Helix IPLM Authentication Service. SSO improves system security, increases productivity, and improves the end-user login experience.

Enhanced Perforce Streams Support

This release enhances IPLM Core’s native DM support for Streams by enabling 'revision' and 'filelist' releases in IPLM. This allows users to determine what they want to include in any given release.

Helix IPLM’s native support for the P4Stream DM type IPs enables IPLM users to benefit from the dynamic, intuitive branching and merging capabilities of Perforce Streams.

CDO (Customer-Defined Object) Hooks 

CDO Hooks allow admins to run a script before or after an action to enforce custom business logic, delivering more powerful capabilities for customers who are customizing their IP quality rules and/or workflows. 

Alias Server Hooks

This release enhances the alias server hooks to help admins ensure users in your organization are using aliases correctly.

For a list of all new features, enhancements, and bug fixes, review the release notes.

Please note that these enhancements and all future IPLM Web and IPLM Cache updates will only be available to organizations that have upgraded to the IPLM Core 2024.1 release (or higher).

Contact your Account Executive to schedule your migration. 

What's New in IPLM Core?

IPLM Core 2024.1

Neo4j 4 Cypher Support

With this release, Helix IPLM now supports the Neo4j 4.4 Cypher query language. Benefits of Helix IPLM’s upgrade to Cypher include:

• Immediate performance improvements as well as enabling additional, ongoing performance improvements over time.
• Enables next-generation causal clustering to improve reliability and performance for remote teams around the world.

This release requires Neo4j 4.4 or later 4.x series. Neo4j is the high-speed graph database used by Helix IPLM. Cypher is Neo4j’s visual graph query language that provides a more powerful, efficient, and intuitive way to query the Neo4j database. 

With this release, the naming convention for IPLM Core changes from 3.x.y to 2024.x.y, starting with 2024.1.0.

For a list of all enhancements, known issues, and other details, review the release notes.

Please note that you will need to upgrade to IPLM Core 2024.1 or higher to benefit from the UX/UI enhancements in the IPLM Web 2024.3 release, as well as all future IPLM Web and IPLM Cache enhancements. 

Contact your Account Executive to schedule your migration. 

What's New in IPLM Web

IPLM Web 2025.2

IP Shopping Cart

This release introduces a “Shopping Cart” feature which delivers an ecommerce-like user experience for IP consumers. The feature allows users to collect IPs of interest that they can then browse, analyze, and easily access from the Resource Browser, making it easier to gather and save groups of relevant IPs for further inspection and future use.

Global Search: IP Catalog

Users can now choose the type of search they want to do, such as “Contains” or “Begins with,” making global IP search within the IP Catalog more intuitive and user-friendly.

Dynamic Quick Filters

Within the IP catalog, dynamic quick filters prioritize the available filters to bring the most helpful filters (as configured by your IPLM Admin) to the top of the filter list. Quick filters can also be configured to dynamically show users the next set of filters based on their selection.

Planning Module: View Permission Support

The IPLM Web Planning module now supports View permissions. This allows users to view the Planning Bill of Materials (BOM), as well as add, edit, or delete any planned IPs they have View permission for. This expands the pool of resources organizations can include in planning, while maintaining the appropriate level of security for all IPs.

For a list of all new features, enhancements, and bug fixes, review the release notes.

Please note that these enhancements and all future IPLM Web and IPLM Cache updates will only be available to organizations that have upgraded to the IPLM Core 2024.3 release or higher. Contact your Account Executive to schedule your migration.

What's New in IPLM Web

IPLM Web 2025.1

Export Hierarchy to CSV

This release adds the ability to export the list of IPV resources displayed on the Hierarchy page, in any View mode, to a .csv file, so users can further manipulate data as needed to gather more insights on IPV usage.

Custom Icons

The IP Hierarchy page can now render custom icons for IP and IP Line, enabling richer customization and more understandable visualization. Learn more about using custom icons here.

For a list of all new features, enhancements, and bug fixes, review the release notes.

Please note that these enhancements and all future IPLM Web and IPLM Cache updates will only be available to organizations that have upgraded to the IPLM Core 2024.3 release or higher. Contact your Account Executive to schedule your migration.

What's New in IPLM Web

IPLM Web 2024.7

Create/Edit IP: Details Tab

Expanding on the Create/Edit IP enhancements on the Resource tab in the IPLM Web 2024.5 release, this release improves the user experience on the IP Details tab. 

Entering or editing information about an IP in the Details tab will now be more intuitive for users, including better feedback in the IP Editor and a redesigned UI for selecting library, labels, client-side hooks, and DM type.

For a list of all new features, enhancements, and bug fixes, review the release notes.

Please note that these enhancements and all future IPLM Web and IPLM Cache updates will only be available to organizations that have upgraded to the IPLM Core 2024.3 release or higher.

Contact your Account Executive to schedule your migration.

What's New in IPLM Web

IPLM Web 2024.6

Enhanced Quick Filters

This release brings a new approach and a new look to quick filters. When entering catalog searches, each label, library, and property choice value now shows a count of the results that will be returned if that option is selected. These updates offer a better, e-commerce-like user experience, addressing what has been a popular enhancement request.

For a list of all new features, enhancements, and bug fixes, review the release notes.

Please note that these enhancements and all future IPLM Web and IPLM Cache updates will only be available to organizations that have upgraded to the IPLM Core 2024.1 release or higher. Contact your Account Executive to schedule your migration. 

What's New in Helix IPLM Web?

Helix IPLM Web 2024.5

Create/Edit IP: Resource (Display & Browser) Enhancements

This release adds more context and information when adding or editing resources in the Create/Edit IP interface to improve the user experience and UI. Users can now use drop-down selectors to select Line and Version, by Version or Alias. You’ll see more data about the Line & Version you’ve selected. When adding a new resource, you’ll also see a new confirmation page to ensure you’re adding the right resource. More Create/Edit IP enhancements to come in future phases.

For a list of all new features, enhancements, and bug fixes, review the release notes.

Please note that these enhancements and all future IPLM Web and IPLM Cache updates will only be available to organizations that have upgraded to the IPLM Core 2024.1 release or higher. Contact your Account Executive to schedule your migration. 

What's New in Helix IPLM Web?

Helix IPLM Web 2024.4

Single Sign-On (SSO)

IPLM Web now supports single sign-on (SSO), using the Helix IPLM Authentication Service. SSO improves system security, increases productivity, and improves the end-user login experience.

For a list of all new features, enhancements, and bug fixes, review the release notes. 

Please note that these enhancements and all future IPLM Web and IPLM Cache updates will only be available to organizations that have upgraded to the IPLM Core 2024.1 release or higher. Contact your Account Executive to schedule your migration. 

What's New in VersIC

VersIC ADS 2025.1

This release expands on the initial Keysight ADS integration introduced in December, 2024. Users can now view IP Version history details in the Cellview History. 

This release also introduces an updated, modern user interface for VersIC ADS.

What's New in VersIC

VersIC ADS 2024.1

This release provides the initial integration between VersIC and Keysight Advanced Design System (ADS), which allows users to use VersIC within ADS. This integration delivers the unlimited scalability, rapid file access, and enterprise security of P4 (formerly Helix Core) data management to ADS users without requiring designers to learn a new data management system or methodology.