At Spider Strategies, we have a “Research and Development” (R&D) day each week that allows us to pursue projects we find interesting. For the last few weeks, I’ve been working on a search feature for CMS 2.1 that will allow you to quickly search through everything in CMS: bookmarks, strategy maps, documents, reports, etc. This will be a handy feature if you’re looking for something and you know its name but aren’t quite sure where it would reside within CMS.

Here is a screenshot of the new search feature in action.

On the road and need to run a few reports?  Need to check the latest numbers as you go into the big meeting?  Maybe you’re gathering data out in the field and want to update your metrics with the freshest data? In CMS 2.1 you will be able to do all this (and more) from your mobile device!

When you log into CMS 2.1 with your mobile device (iPhone, Palm, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, etc.) you will automatically see a special version optimized for mobile browsing.  You’ll be able to view and update your metric data, view your tasks, and run a variety of graphs, charts, and reports!