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Posted: 10th March 2017
We plan to implement an important upgrade to BOS’s infrastructure on Tuesday March 14. This work is necessary to improve performance and capacity ahead of our busy spring period. We expect that BOS will be unavailable for both users and survey participants for a period of time between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. During this […]
Posted: 4th December 2015
Whether you are a new BOS user or have been using BOS for a while, you may not have had the chance to explore all of the options available to you. Here are ten things that you may not know that you can do in BOS: 1. Add documents to your survey for your respondents to view […]
Posted: 10th November 2015
In July we let you know that we were working hard to make some changes in BOS that our users have asked for. Last month we announced the introduction of Piping. Today we are happy to announce a raft of new Dashboard and Admin tools. The changes we’ve made vary depending on your account type, […]
Posted: 22nd October 2015
We are in the process of updating the Diffie-Hellman protocol on our servers to ensure we provide the best security for all our users and survey respondents. The Diffie-Hellman protocol is part of the process that ensures information transmitted between the BOS servers and another computer (such as that being used by a survey author […]
Posted: 16th October 2015
Over the summer BOS’s development team has been working hard on a number of new features that our users have asked for. We’re pleased to announce the release of the first of these new features. Introducing…Piping What is Piping? Piping enables a survey’s author to insert answers previously given by a respondent into upcoming questions, […]
Posted: 14th October 2015
The US-EU Safe Harbor scheme – a framework of data protection standards that allows the transfer of personal data from the EU to certified US organisations – was ruled invalid by the European Court of Justice on October 6, 2015. Some online survey tools have relied on the Safe Harbor agreement to store customer or […]
Posted: 28th September 2015
Recent downtime We would like to thank you for your patience and understanding during the recent scheduled downtime. We are working on some enhancements to BOS which require some of the underlying structure of the system to be changed. The only way we can safely make these changes is to make the system unavailable while the […]
Posted: 31st July 2015
We have listened to your thoughts and suggestions since the launch of the new version of BOS and, over the summer, we plan to work on two substantial enhancements based on your feedback. Admin User tools We intend to make a number of changes to help Admin Users administer their BOS Accounts more effectively. In […]
Posted: 20th April 2015
You can now create ranking questions with the new scale/rank question type.
Posted: 20th March 2015
Respondent progress, account admin statistics and other new features and improvements are now available.