Product Updates, September 2025

Summary

September 2025 brought a series of impactful updates to Scholarly Software, focusing on enhancing workflow automation, API capabilities, address management, and platform performance. The new features include auto-advancing workflow steps, improved handling of concurrent steps, and a redesigned faculty member addition process, all aimed at streamlining complex academic workflows. API enhancements now offer cursor-based pagination, more granular filtering, and additional endpoints for better integration and data synchronization. Faculty profiles now support multiple, effective-dated addresses, accommodating both domestic and international faculty needs. Scholarly continues to prioritize performance, security, and user feedback, ensuring a robust and responsive platform for higher education institutions.

What are the key workflow improvements introduced in September 2025? * Scholarly added auto-advancing steps, enhanced support for concurrent workflow steps, and launched new, information-dense designs for workflow pages to better handle complex academic processes.
How has the API been improved? * The API now features cursor-based pagination for consistent performance, new endpoints and webhooks for workflow status, expanded filtering options, and support for managing addresses and employee IDs.
What changes were made to faculty address management? * Faculty profiles can now include multiple, effective-dated addresses, supporting both US and international formats, which is especially useful for visiting professors.
How does Scholarly address performance and security? * The platform improved faculty activity performance, enhanced nightly data synchronization, fixed bugs in integration code, and optimized APIs for better reliability and security.
Where can users find more information or support? * Users can access detailed product updates on the Scholarly blog or contact their account team at support@scholarlysoftware.com for assistance.

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Sep 30, 2025

September didn’t just welcome students back to campus—it also brought solid product improvements at Scholarly. This month saw continued investment in our Workflows and API offerings, enabling even more sophisticated workflows on the platform. "Workflows" can be anything from an annual evaluation or tenure process to a leave application.

Here’s everything that shipped in September and is now available to all customers. (You can read past product updates on our blog.)

Workflow Updates

Introduced auto-advancing steps. Steps in a workflow can now automatically advance when a date passes.
Improved handling of concurrent steps. Not every workflow is simply from Point A to Point B, and there are often detours on the way to completion. Concurrent steps allow multiple steps to be completed at the same time, allowing for faster workflow completion.
New designs with better information density. We heard a lot of feedback about our workflow pages, and are rolling out new designs with better information density. These new pages work especially well with complex, highly-concurrent workflows.
New add faculty members modal. Adding faculty members to workflows got an overhaul, and you can now filter by different properties to add faculty members in bulk. Example: "Add all tenure-track assistant professors to this workflow."
Lots of miscellaneous bug and performance fixes.

API Updates

Added cursor-based pagination to the API, which ensures consistent performance as clients iterate deep into lists of data.
Added endpoints and webhooks for reading the status of different aspects of Workflows. A customer requested this functionality to sync merit scores from their annual workflow with their payroll system.
Added endpoints for managing addresses (which are detailed below).
Began surfacing more data for profiles, including what Scholarly calls "Employee IDs". These are unique identifiers that faculty members have in different systems, and faculty members can have more than one!
Added filtering to many API endpoints, which makes it possible to filter down a larger set of data to something matching a filter. Example: "Give me all faculty members with the Employee ID 1234."

Better Addresses

Faculty profiles can now have zero or more addresses, instead of just "Home" and "Office".
These addresses are effective-dated, which makes tracking upcoming address changes possible on platform.
Addresses support both US and international addresses, making it particularly useful for visiting professors from outside the US.

Performance and Security

Improved faculty activity performance
Improved the performance and error-resilience of our nightly Banner synchronization.
Authored a few bug fixes for our NIH synchronization code.
Improved the performance of our Digital Measures-compatible APIs
Fix a bug with matching ORCID publications

That’s a wrap for September. Questions or feedback? Your account team is here to help at support@scholarlysoftware.com. See you next month!