Faster, Smarter, More Accessible Feedback Analytics with Explorance Blue 9.6

Montreal, Quebec – December 2025 – Explorance Blue is a feedback analytics platform that helps institutions and organizations gather, analyze, and act on feedback at scale. Blue automates survey delivery, streamlines reporting, and turns feedback into meaningful insights that drive continuous improvement in student and employee experiences.

As institutions and organizations continue to manage complex survey cycles and rising stakeholder expectations, this release focuses on removing friction, improving visibility, and accelerating day-to-day work for administrators. With Blue 9.6, teams can navigate survey projects more easily, complete tasks faster, and rely on a more inclusive, high-performing platform.

Shaped directly by customer input from Explorance World, Blue 9.6 delivers enhancements that improve speed, accessibility, integration with the latest Explorance MLY updates, and overall ease of use. This release reflects Explorance’s commitment to listening closely, responding thoughtfully, and building technology aligned with real-world needs.

What’s New in Blue 9.6?

Blue 9.6 delivers targeted enhancements shaped by customer feedback, focused on improving speed, accessibility, and day-to-day usability. This release strengthens AI interoperability, streamlines project management, and removes common workflow friction to help teams manage surveys, reporting, and insights with greater confidence and efficiency.

Blue 9.6 represents a meaningful step forward in how administrators experience the platform, delivering greater control, faster performance, and a more intuitive way to manage complex survey operations. Every enhancement was shaped directly by feedback from our community to ensure real, everyday impact.

— Blue Product Management Team

1. Enhanced Support for MLY 3.2

As more institutions adopt Explorance MLY 3.2 for AI-powered qualitative analysis, Blue 9.6 introduces improved interoperability to streamline workflows across platforms. These enhancements make it easier to move from evaluation to insight generation, supporting faster, more connected feedback cycles.

New updates also include refreshed MLY comment blocks to support the new alert categories, along with enhanced comment contextualization capabilities, helping teams better interpret qualitative feedback with greater accuracy and clarity.

2. WCAG 2.2 AA Accessibility Compliance

This release achieves full WCAG 2.2 AA compliance, including accessible PDF reports, ensuring all users can access, interpret, and act on results equitably.

3. Faster Performance & Report Generation

Blue 9.6 makes report generation twice as fast, reducing delays during peak evaluation periods and improving system responsiveness.

4. New Project Overview for Streamlined Management

A redesigned Project Overview centralizes key functions to give administrators a single, clear hub to manage and troubleshoot evaluations faster.

5. Smarter Copying & Reuse of Work

Filters are now retained when copying reports, reducing redundant work and helping teams maintain consistent, accurate reporting templates across projects.

6. Additional Enhancements

Usability & Navigation Improvements: Streamlined Apply and Save actions for more predictable behavior, along with improved DIG 3.1 navigation and clarity to make evaluation review and management faster and easier for distributed teams.

Platform & Infrastructure Upgrades:

• Improved performance for MIST AI
• New API endpoints for retrieving tasks and reports
• Blue 9 support for on-premise hosting

Built From Your Feedback, Powering What Comes Next

Blue 9.6 is more than a collection of feature updates, it is a direct reflection of the challenges, opportunities, and ideas shared by our customers across the globe. Every enhancement represents Explorance’s ongoing commitment to building a platform shaped by real-world needs.

By listening closely, iterating thoughtfully, and investing in usability, performance, and accessibility, Blue continues to evolve as a trusted, enterprise-grade feedback analytics solution that empowers institutions and organizations to take confident, data-informed action.

As we look ahead, we remain dedicated to partnering with our community to define the next chapter of the Blue platform. Your insights continue to drive our roadmap, inspire innovation, and ensure that Blue delivers the tools you need to strengthen learning, teaching, and organizational outcomes.

We invite you to join us at Explorance World, our global gathering where your voice helps shape future releases, guides product priorities, and fuels the evolution of feedback analytics. Register today and be part of what’s next.