Release notes

June, 2026

Employee Assistance

New features and enhancements

• Absence management with Employee Assistance
  Ava now helps you manage your absences. You can ask Ava to display your absence list, make updates to your absences, and delete requests using natural language.

May, 2026

General

New features and enhancements

• Improved responses with smart suggestions
  When Ava detects that your question can have different answers based on your intention, it now shows simple suggestions to choose from so you get the correct help faster.

• Updated default selection for optional permissions in the Consent window
  Optional permissions in the Consent window are no longer selected by default. To help Ava work as intended, we recommend that you select them. For more information, go to How Ava protects your privacy.

April, 2026

Employee Assistance

New features and enhancements

• Employee Assistance is now available in Ava for Unit4 ERPx
  Ava now offers Employee Assistance for Unit4 ERPx. You can ask Ava to submit an absence request and check your absence balance using everyday language, such as I will be off from January 10 to January 15, Can I take sick leave tomorrow?, What is my annual leave balance?, or How many vacation days do I have left?

Note: This feature is currently available for early adopters only.

March, 2026

General

New features and enhancements

• Rate Ava's responses with feedback icons
  You can now rate responses from Ava by selecting a thumbs up or thumbs down icon and optionally leaving a comment. Your feedback helps Unit4 improve the quality and accuracy of Ava's answers. For more information, go to Give feedback.

• Personalised overview of available features
  Ava now shows an overview of the functionalities available to you based on your product subscriptions and permissions. You can request this overview at any time by asking Ava What can I do in Ava? or similar questions.

• Updated permission checks in the Consent window
  The permissions Use chat messages and Use your collaboration app user identifier are now mandatory on the Consent window. You may be prompted to accept the updated consent the next time you sign in. For more information, go to How Ava protects your privacy.

Real-Time Help

New features and enhancements

• Improved Real-Time Help with smarter responses
  Real-Time Help now delivers more accurate answers. Also, Ava can help you to enhance your productivity with the new suggested follow-up questions after each response, which are context-aware and relevant to your conversation.

• Real-Time Help is now available for Unit4 FP&A
  Ava now offers Real-Time Help for Unit4 FP&A. You can ask Ava questions about planning, forecasting and reporting, such as What are dimensions? or How do I create a dashboard?, and receive instant answers based on the latest Unit4 FP&A Online Help.

Task Assistance

New features and enhancements

• Workflow step name in the Task summary
  The Task summary now displays the workflow step name in the task details, making it easier to identify the step during approval or rejection.

Fixes

• Absence code description in notifications
  We have fixed a bug where notifications showed the wrong absence code description when the same absence code ID had different descriptions in multiple clients.

Payslip Assistance

New features and enhancements

• Payslip Assistance is now available in Ava for Unit4 ERPx
  Ava now offers Payslip Assistance for Unit4 ERPx. You can ask Ava questions about your payslip, such as Show me my latest payslip, Show me my latest payslip with YTD values, or Why is my net pay in November lower than in October?. You can also download your payslip.
  

Note: This feature is currently available for early adopters only.

December, 2025

Task Assistance

New features and enhancements

• Show more tasks in Carousel view
  We have added a Show more button in the task carousel. You can view the next set of tasks without having to approve or reject the current ones.

October, 2025

Real-Time Help

New features and enhancements

• Real-Time Help is now available in Ava for Unit4 ERPx and Unit4 ERP CR
  Ava now offers Real-Time Help for Unit4 ERPx and Unit4 ERP CR. You can ask Ava questions about functionality, concepts, and processes, such as "What is payroll confirmation?" or "How do I create a customer transaction?", and receive instant answers based on the latest Unit4 Online Help.

General

New features and enhancements

• Updated Ava Privacy Statement to reflect technology enhancements
  We have updated the Ava Privacy Statement to reflect enhancements in the underlying technology. Ava now uses Azure AI Bot Service (formerly Microsoft Bot Framework). We have clarified that content may be processed by Azure OpenAI within Microsoft Azure. Your data is not used to train foundation models and remains isolated from other customers. There are no changes to processing, legal basis, data retention, or your rights. If you have any questions, contact dpo@unit4.com.

August, 2025

General

New features and enhancements

• Technical changes to improve language recognition using CLU
  We have updated Ava Task Assistant to use Microsoft's Conversational Language Understanding (CLU) for language recognition. This improves accuracy and supports future improvements in natural language processing. For more information, see Microsoft's LINK to CLU migration guide.

June, 2025

General

New features and enhancements

• Ava (Non-Preview) application description update
  A new version of Ava (Non-Preview) is now available. This update includes a modification to the application description. There are no changes to the functionality. We recommend keeping your application up to date to ensure you have the latest version installed.

• Technical improvements
  We have made further internal improvements which do not affect functionality.

Fixes

• Language preference handling for signed-out users
  We have fixed a bug related to how Ava handles language preferences when you are not logged in.

Known issues

• Absence task known issue
  There is a known issue regarding absence tasks. See the Ava Implementation guide for more information and a workaround.

• Technical improvements
  We have made further internal improvements which do not affect functionality.

April, 2025

General

New features and enhancements

• Improvements for Wanda-to-Ava migration
  This update includes improvements for customers moving from Wanda to Ava.

March, 2025

General

New features and enhancements

• Technical improvements
  This update includes technical improvements which do not affect functionality.

January, 2025

General

New features and enhancements

• Technical improvements
  This update includes technical improvements which do not affect functionality.

December, 2024

General

New features and enhancements

• Ava available in Microsoft Teams for early adopters
  Unit4 Advanced Virtual Agent (Ava) is available in Microsoft Teams for early adopters.

Task Assistance

New features and enhancements

• Task list management in Microsoft Teams
  Manage the tasks in your task list from within Microsoft Teams.

Team Discussion

New features and enhancements

• Open Team Discussion from invoice items
  Open Microsoft Teams discussions with your colleagues directly from invoice items in Unit4 ERPx.