1. The document describes new features in version 2.12 of VisibleThread including new summary screens, a document acronym report, more flexible compliance matrix generation, extensions to clear language analysis, extensions to discovery, more flexible Excel exports, and support for duplicate dictionary terms. 2. Key new features include a document acronym report to extract or verify acronyms, ignoring selected content in compliance matrix generation, new readability metrics and folder-level clear language views, enhanced discovery filters and indicators, and options for exporting all document content to Excel. 3. The presentation concludes with a thank you and invitation for questions.

1. VisibleThread Docs –
What’s new in version 2.12?
VisibleThread Users Conference – November 2015
Eoin Wren, VP of Engineering and Support
Fergal McGovern, founder and CEO

2. 2.12 - New
2.12 - Summary of what’s new
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1. New Summary Screens
2. Document Acronym Report
3. More Flexible Compliance Matrix Generation
4. Extensions to Clear Language
5. Extensions to Discovery
6. More Flexible Excel Exports
7. Support for Duplicate Dictionary Terms

3. 1 --> New Summary Screens
and other UI enhancements

4. 2.12 - New
New Summary Screens
 New summary views for ‘Home’, and for each folder and document
 Summary views provide summary stats for the selected item
 Summary views provide shortcuts to common tasks appropriate for the
selected item
 Most common tasks highlighted
Net Results: Information more easily accessible, common tasks
easier to complete.

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New Summary Screens
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Home Summary Screen

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New Summary Screens
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Folder Summary Screen

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New Summary Screens
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Document Summary Screen

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9. 2 --> Document Acronym
Report

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Document Acronym Report
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Targeting two key use cases:
A. Extracting a list of Acronyms and their definitions from any document
B. Verifying the integrity of Acronyms
Report Identifies:
1. Well-defined acronyms
2. Acronyms with no definition
3. Acronyms with multiple definitions
4. Acronyms where usage occurs before the definition

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Document Acronym Report
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Use Case 1: Extract list of Acronyms from RFP
Step 1: Click the Acronym Report shortcut from the Document Summary Screen
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Document Acronym Report
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Use Case 1: Extract list of Acronyms from RFP
Step 2: Review List of Acronyms in the Report Viewer
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Document Acronym Report
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Use Case 1: Extract list of Acronyms from RFP
Step 3: Export to Excel and filter appropriately.
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Document Acronym Report
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Use Case 2: Verify the integrity of Acronyms in your Docs
Step 1: Click the Acronym Report shortcut from the Document Summary Screen
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Document Acronym Report
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Use Case 2: Verify the integrity of Acronyms in your Docs
Step 2: Use the Acronym Report to identify issues
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Document Acronym Report
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Use Case 2: Verify the integrity of Acronyms in your Docs
Step 2: Use the Acronym Report to identify issues
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Document Acronym Report
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Use Case 2: Verify the integrity of Acronyms in your Docs
Step 2: Use the Acronym Report to identify issues
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19. 3 --> More Flexible
Compliance Matrix
Generation

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Flexible Compliance Matrix
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Two new options that will reduce effort required to process a Compliance Matrix:
1. Ignore all paragraphs in the RFP that contain specific words/phrases
2. Ignore specific pages, or page ranges (e.g. 1-10) in the source RFP

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Flexible Compliance Matrix
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 “Ignored” content is not really ignored
 It is still processed for matches against ‘will’, ‘shall’ etc
 Results are placed in a separate worksheet
 Allows for post generation review in case of mistakes etc.

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23. 4 --> Extensions to Clear
Language

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Extensions to Clear Language
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Two new improvements to help you get the most out of clear language
1. New Readability Metrics
2. New Folder level Clear Language View

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New Readability Metrics
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1. New ‘Grade Level’ Metric – are we writing for our target audience

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1. New ‘Grade Level’ Metric – are we writing for our target audience
2. Readability metrics at paragraph level – helps identify what parts of the
document to target for improvements.

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New Readability Metrics
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1. New ‘Grade Level’ Metric – are we writing for our target audience
2. Readability metrics at paragraph level – helps identify what parts of the
document to target for improvements.

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Folder Level Clear Language
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• Provides Language Complexity metrics for each document in the folder
• Allows for easy comparison between documents, e.g. different revisions of a
response document

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30. 5 --> Extensions to Discovery

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Extensions to Discovery
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New layout at Folder level Discovery
Provides clearer explanation of what searches/filters etc are currently active

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Extensions to Discovery
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New layout at Folder level Discovery
Provides clearer explanation of what searches/filters etc are currently active

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Extensions to Discovery
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New Visual Indicators to highlight areas where there is alignment between all
documents in the folder

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Extensions to Discovery
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New Visual Indicators to highlight areas where occurrences of items has
changed from one document to the next

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Extensions to Discovery
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New Compliance Filter ‘Show all Items in One Doc’
Compares themes found in one document versus all other documents in folder.

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37. 6 --> More Flexible Excel
Exports

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Excel Exports
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2.11
• Export to Excel from Discovery, Concept Analysis, and Quality Analysis did not
export all content from source document
• Only paragraphs that matched the dictionary terms selected were exported.
2.12
• Option to include all document content in export, and markup matching
paragraphs

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Excel Exports
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41. 7 --> Duplicate Dictionary
Terms

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Duplicate Dictionary Terms
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 Dictionary Terms must be unique across entire dictionary
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 Duplicate terms allowed, but term must be unique within its category.
 Applies to both Quality and Concept Dictionaries
 User notified when creating a duplicate term

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44. Thanks – Q&A
Mail support@visiblethread.com for deployment and usage questions
Mail sales@visiblethread.com for commercial questions
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