Platform

Key Features:

1. Data Center
   1. Performance improvement for Connector
   2. Data Store query performance improvement
2. Document maximize option
3. Data Center-API Connectors
   1. Firebase
   2. Leadsquared

Enhancements:

1. Language settings enhancement
2. Option to disable email sending option

Data Preparation

New Features:

1. Proper error messages and exception propagation to UI
2. Data Pipeline integration
3. Implementation of dynamic scale in frequency and pattern charts
4. Lazy load for creating a profile after metadata change - transformation
5. Transforms
1. Return Non-null Columns- Returns the value of the non-null column from the list of columns specified
2. Max Value from Selected Columns- Returns the max value from the list of columns specified
3. Negate Values- Negates a selected column value
4. Min Value from Selected Columns- Returns the min value from the list of columns specified
5. Mean Value from Selected Columns-Returns the mean of the columns specified
6. Remove Numbers- Removes numeric (numbers) from any data value of the selected column
7. Remove Letters- Removes letters from any data value of the selected column
8. Remove Punctuation- Removes punctuation from any data value of the selected column
9. Flag Duplicates in Columns- Flags whether there is a duplicate in the selected columns
10. Flag Duplicates in Table- Flags whether there is a duplicate in the table
11. Remove Duplicates from Column- Removes any duplicate value that occurs in the selected columns
12. Remove Duplicates from Table- Removes any duplicate value in the table (whole row duplicates)
13. Return Number Names- Returns the number names of the selected column

Enhancements:

1. Performance improvement for column re-ordering
2. Performance improvement for renaming column transformation
3. Write Tests for lazily create a profile after action
4. Performance improvement for insert column transformations
5. Performance improvement for delete column transformation

Data Pipeline

New Features:

1. Integration with the following BDB Platform Plugins
   1. Predictive Workbench
   2. Data Preparation
2. Added Python Model Runner
3. Advance Logs: Component deployment tracker
4. Excel Support for SFTP reader
5. Event sharing
6. Components
   1. Copy
   2. Rename
7. The user can now enable JSON Editor from the Pipeline Workflow Editor page

Enhancements:

1. PEM/PPK Authentication for Sqoop component
2. Null Value Handling for Spark Components
3. Logger enhancements for Components
4. Overwrite mode for JDBC Writer
5. Enhanced User Interface

Business Story

New Features:

1. New design for the property panel of the charting components.
2. Introduced guided tour for the Story plugin.
3. Now sorting a view based on the non-existing dimension is possible.
4. Introduced ‘Category Properties’ with Display Name for the Dimensions
5. Added a welcome page for Story plugin with the ‘Start’ option
6. Introduced the Data Store information option on the Storyboard
7. Timeline play with histogram chart
8. AI-based Search
   1. Introduced ‘Like’ icon for the users to save their searched queries
   2. Introduced the ‘Search suggestions’ section to display all the previously searched and saved queries by the user
   3. Stack chart with sliced data
   4. Color coding for the Search result string to display Dimension and Measure values
   5. Search bar auto-suggestion appears as a full query statement instead of words

Enhancements:

1. KPI tile enhancements

Dashboard Designer

Charting:

New Features:

1. Timeline Chart: Various style options appear for a data point when highlighted by hovering the cursor
2. Y-Axis: Number of marker control from a variable
3. Introduced the AI-based Search in the dashboard
4. Implementation of Clarity Sort and Slice feature
5. Predictive Service- Filter supports in Python workflow
6. List & Hierarchical Combo box: Option to select multiple indexes
7. Components: Padding margin space gets updates by default
8. Fill transparency property addition
9. Help Section: Provides information about component’s configurable properties for scripting use
10. Language mapping on various parts of the chart is possible now
11. Chart: Displays the Y-Axis marker number based on chart height
12. Export Excel- Supports formatter from the component
13. Bar/Timeline: The Stack border-radius is 5px by default
14. Leaflet: Supports animation when zoomed in from the world map to state and with set default marker
15. The ‘Show Data’ window appears in the center of the screen
16. SVG Components: Users can alter the styles (X/Y Axis Makers, Horizontal and Vertical Lines, and data label) of data label using a script
17. Revamped data-tooltip for the mobile charts

Enhancements:

1. Treemap Custom Tooltip: Displays the option for old dashboards
2. Hierarchical filter UI updates for the dark theme
3. Timeline: Stack-Border-radius update and Hover property enabled for all point shapes
4. Label component has an option to align text in vertical/horizontal style
5. Usability updates for the Custom Tooltip window
6. UI enhancements for Filter
7. Box: Style Property enhancements (Gradient color and rotation)
8. On filtering the data in charts, the points or tiles get changed into the black color
9. The Timeline chart has customizable axis markers
10. Filter component - Search box appears on the top
11. Legend: Static legend does not have a checkbox

Designer

New Features:

1. Loading improvement for dashboard and designer
2. Data Connectors: Loading order of connections should be alterable from UI

Enhancements:

1. Guided Tour with advanced options
2. Decode the service response when Encryption is enabled
3. Data Connector: Provides information about available query service count in a connector
4. OpenDoc does not have default 1px border around the dashboard
5. Predictive connector service side enhancements

Predictive Workbench

New Features:

1. Guided tour implementation on the Predictive Workbench landing page to introduce the offered workspaces
2. CSV Reader- Removed some restrictions for smoother file upload
3. Reading the uploaded files directly in R/Python instead of Karaf service to increase performance
4. Option to upload libraries, Models, Images and Data files as Zip file.(R and python)
5. Information of component owner via Hover Tooltip
6. Increased message length to describe the pre-defined script
7. Boolean/ Logical type for textbox in Custom R Script for function parameter
8. Provision to enter multiple lines in the textbox in Custom R scripts for function parameter arguments
9. Introduced the Deploy option for the predictive models
10. Changes in UI for the split data component
11. R Workspace
    1. Regression Metrics in Performance
    2. Visualization for Clustering and Logistic Regression algorithms gets plotted from R side.
    3. Normalize Multiple Columns in R at a time
    4. R Performance – ROC curve Visualization
12. AutoML Workspace
    1. AutoML Implementation
    2. Implementation of Permissions for AutoML
13. Python Workspace
    1. Naive Bayes Classifier component
    2. Apply model implemented Naive Bayes
14. Auto Save option introduced for the saved workflows only with data store writer

Enhancements:

1. PA homepage upgrades
2. PA permissions modifications
3. Changes done in the plugin services for performance improvement
4. R Workspace
   1. Predictive Workbench UI provides an easy and enhanced mechanism for R Package installation (online/offline)
   2. Upgrade in the Apply Model component for Forecasting algorithms to support as supervised algorithms

Mobile Apps

New Features:

1. Charting components
   1. Pareto
   2. Scatterplot

Enhancements:

1. AI-based responsive Data Search
   1. Search bar supports text-based search
   2. Displays the saved Search Queries
   3. Displays Dimensions and Measures information
   4. Color-coded display of the searched Dimensions and Measures in the result view
   5. Expand Search Result view
2. Filter Panel: Provided ‘In’ and ‘Not-in’ options to apply filter conditions on data

Recommendations:

Known Limitations: