July– Product Release Notes 

PurpleTRAC (Maritime Risk & Compliance) 

Dual Use Goods Screening: Smarter Search Filters 

What’s new:  

Dual Use Goods Screening now gives you more control over your matched results. 
You can now filter by HS/TARIC/Code and Phrase together to refine what’s returned, and a third nested filter, Description of Goods, lets you narrow results further. Goods description is also now displayed in search results for greater transparency. 

Why it Matters 

  • Filter Dual Use Goods searches by HS/TARIC/Code and Phrase simultaneously 
  • Nest a Description of Goods filter under Phrase for deeper refinement 
  • Goods description field now shown in search results 

Introducing Single Sign-On (SSO) 

What’s new:  

Single Sign-On is now available on PurpleTRAC. Log in using your organization’s existing credentials instead of a separate PurpleTRAC username and password, giving your IT team centralized control and your users a faster, more secure sign-in. 

Why it Matters 

  • Simpler access – Use your existing organisational credentials  — no separate PurpleTRAC password required 
  • Enhanced security – Authentication is managed through your organisation’s identity provider, using its own security policies and controls. 
  • Improved user experience – Enjoy a faster and more consistent sign-in process across your organisation’s applications. 
  • Reduced password resets – Having a single set of credentials helps minimise password-related issues and support requests. 
  • Centralised account management – User access can be managed more efficiently by your organisation’s IT administrators. 

​​​​​​P​odium (Shipping & Offshore) 

Self-Service Vessel Onboarding: 

What’s new: 

Bringing a self-service vessel onboarding Workflow into Podium enabling customers to submit vessel requests directly, track progress instead of sharing excel files manually to support team. 

  1. Self-service vessel onboarding from podium 
  1. Add vessels using IMO lookup or manual entry when IMO is unavailable 
  1. Add the communicators along with vessels at the time of request 
  1. Draft support for in-progress onboarding requests 
  1. Customer request tracking via the Requests tab 
  1. Receive Email notification for every request, approved and denied vessel 

Benefits: 

  1. Replaces email/manual onboarding with a structured digital workflow 
  1. Improves customer visibility with request status tracking 
  1. Reduces Customer Services admin effort and manual follow-up 

Podium Onboard Submissions – Toggle Optional Fields 

What’s new: 

  • New “Onboard” tab under Configure – a fleet list showing every vessel’s configuration status (Configured / Not configured), with search and filter support. 
  • Per-vessel field configuration editor – a report-type sidebar covering all 22 report types, paired with an editor panel of collapsible sections and individual field toggles. 
  • Section- and field-level control – hide or show an entire section, or toggle individual fields within it. 
  • Bulk actions – “Show all optional” and “Hide all optional” to quickly set a baseline configuration. 
  • Apply-to functionality – apply a configuration across all 22 report types on a vessel, across the whole fleet, or both, via an “Apply to…” modal with clear warnings before overwriting existing settings. 
  • Per-vessel overrides – after a fleet-wide apply, individual vessels can still be edited to override the shared configuration. 

Why it matters  

  • Crew have previously had to work through Noon Day Reports containing every optional field, regardless of relevance to their vessel type or operations. This led to longer completion times, inconsistent data quality, and crew frustration. This release gives shoreside teams a way to tailor forms to each vessel’s actual needs. 
  • Once a vessel is configured, crew will only see the enabled sections and fields on that vessel’s onboard reports. Unconfigured vessels keep the current behaviour (all optional fields visible). Hidden fields are stored as blank/null and don’t affect calculated fields, backend validation, or previously submitted reports. 
  • Configuration is controlled by shoreside management (Admin and Editor users) so vessels cannot remove fields without approval 
  • Flexibility of configuration allows for forms to be customised accurately to customer needs – different vessels can have different fields hidden 

Podium: Multifactor Authentication: 

What’s new: 

  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is now available in Podium. Customers can enable MFA to add an additional verification step when users sign in. Users will receive a one-time verification code by email and will be guided through the MFA setup process. 
  • MFA also provides secure password setup, reset, and change flows with stronger password requirements. 

Benefits: 

  • Enhanced account security with an additional verification step beyond the password.  
  • Protection against unauthorised access even if a user’s password is compromised.  

Raptor V1&V2  Support in Podium 

What’s new: 

Bringing full lifecycle support for Raptor V1, V2 communicators into Podium, enabling activation, tracking, polling, alerting, and monitoring through a single, integrated workflow for more reliable vessel operations  

  1. Raptor V1&V2 communicator activation and  lifecycle management   
  1. Scheduled position reporting and on-demand polling   
  1. Configurable vessel rules, alerts, and late/missing  report detection  
  1. Unified message history, audit logs, and report timeline    

Benefits: 

  1. Supports a new generation of Raptor V1&V2 tracking  devices without separate workflows   
  1. Improves operational visibility with real-time reporting and polling 
  1. Provides a consistent communicator management experience across Podium 

Raptor V2’s Roll and Pitch Metrics 

What’s New: 

Bringing vessel motion visibility into Podium using Raptor V2 data, enabling fleet teams to review pitch and roll amplitude, investigate bad-weather movement, and export evidence for operational or claim-related reviews.   

  1. View Roll & Pitch directly from the vessel list 
  1. Display latest Pitch Amplitude and Roll Amplitude for a selected vessel 
  1. Show motion trend as Increased, Decreased, or Stable compared with previous data  
  1. Review historical pitch and roll amplitude on a dedicated graph  
  1. Export the visible graph as a PNG for sharing or evidence purposes 

Benefits: 

  1. Improves visibility of vessel motion during bad-weather events  
  1. Helps fleet teams quickly investigate abnormal pitch or roll behaviour  
  1. Supports CPC claim review by providing exportable vessel motion evidence  
  1. Reduces the need to manually inspect raw Raptor V2 message data  
  1. Provides a clear, vessel-level motion history within the Podium workflow 

Podium: Mobile App- View Latest Position Data 

What’s new: 

  1. New Latest Position option in the vessel menu  
  1. Dedicated mobile screen for live position data  
  1. Shows Lat/Long, course, speed, destination, UTC time of last report  
  1. Includes IMO, MMSI, DWT, draft, position source (e.g. AIS) 

Benefits: 

  1. Reduces dependence on desktop when checking “where is my vessel now?” 
  1. Speeds up decision-making in time‑sensitive situations (ETA changes, route deviations, port calls) 

Meridia 

Event Tab Redesign & Export Functionality  

What’s new:  

  • Events tab redesigned across all entities — ports, zones and vessels. 
  • Live Event View — auto-refreshing feed for recent activity: Top 500 recent events  
  • Event type filtering available on every Events tab. 
  • Full Data Export — choose a date range (preset or custom) and event types, then submit; Meridia assembles the complete result set in the background, beyond the on-screen record limit. 
  • In-app delivery — get notified when your CSV is ready; find completed exports under Notifications → Downloads with expiry time of 24 hours and request again feature with one-click re-request after expiry. 

 
Why it matters: 

  • Previously, the Events tab silently truncated results at a fixed limit with no indication of records missing. 
  • Analysts had to paginate manually; compliance and audit work risked relying on incomplete data. 
  • The live view is now transparent about its limits and always routes you to the full dataset. 
  • Async export delivers complete event history for defensible sanctions screening, audit trails, and regulatory reporting — no manual pagination. 

 
 
MTI Score on Vessel Overview 

What’s new: 

MTI transparency score now available in Meridia — each vessel’s composite MTI score (0–5, shown as a gauge) now appears in the individual vessel view, so users no longer need to open the MTI tool separately. Entitlement-gated — users with the MTI add-on can view the score; others see an upsell prompt on Vessel Overview, while the score remains hidden elsewhere. 

Why it matters: 

  • Analysts previously had to leave the Meridia workbench to check a vessel’s transparency and risk signal. 
  • The score now sits alongside vessel overview in one view, cutting context-switching at the moment of investigation. 
  • Speeds up underwriting, trade finance, compliance, and due-diligence decisions with operational and risk signals combined. 
  • Reinforces Meridia as a unified data workbench, with MTI as the specialist tool for deeper risk breakdown. 

Coming Up

A big update is heading to Podium Onboard: 

Something exciting is on the horizon. A major onboard update will give crews a clearer view of changing conditions, smarter tools for planning ahead, and a more reliable experience at sea, even when connectivity is limited. Stay tuned for more details.