October 15th, 2015

Platform

New Features:
  1. Users can view folder and document information.
  2. 'Share With' and 'Exclude' features added to Get Folder/Document Information.
  3. Upload image in Get Folder/Document Information.
  4. Enhanced UI in Data Management, including 'Reconnect Data Connector', 'Test Data Connector', and 'Test Data Service'.
  5. Enhanced UI in User Management
  6. Viewer and Admin roles are created by default with installation services.
  7. Permission for Context Menu.
  8. Share Data Connector with permission.
  9. Data Connector Integration.
  10. Database size alert email.
  11. Ability to upload custom logo.
  12. Spark SQL Connector.
  13. Jasper report migration.
  14. Cube alert.
  15. Context menu permission is not mandatory for a new group.
  16. In User Management, ‘Select All’ is added in Group Permissions

Dashboard Designer

New Features:
  1. Addition of many new advanced charts:
    1. Area stack chart
    2. Area 100% chart
    3. Times Series chart
    4. Advanced time-series chart
    5. Tree-map chart
    6. Bullet chart
    7. Word cloud
  2. Addition of analytical chartss & components:
    1. Semi-circle doughnut chart
    2. Legend component
    3. Textbox with HTML support
    4. Themes
  3. New enhancements to component properties:
    1. Option to delete a workspace or dashboard
    2. Thousands place separator in all charts
    3. Added 'Undo' feature for visual properties
    4. Support click events for other plugins
    5. Grouping of the components used in dashboards
    6. Global font property provided for dashboards

Predictive Workbench:

Predictive Workbench 1.0 has been released for General Availability.

Predictive Workbench enables users to connect to flat-files and data sources using .csv files and BDB query service.

BDB supports the following Data preparations:

  • Data type definition
  • Filter
  • Formula
  • Normalization
  • Sample

R algorithms available in predictive analysis:

  • Time Series algorithms
    • Single Exponential
    • Double Exponential
    • Triple Exponential
    • R Auto Arima
  • Clustering
    • R-K-Means
  • Association
    • Market Basket Analysis
  • Regression Analysis
    • R Linear Regression
    • R Multiple Linear Regression
    • R Logistic Regression
  • Outliers
    • Interquartile Range
  • Classification
    • R CNR Tree
    • Naive Bayes
  • Predictive Workbench supports writing back the output to the file/database using data writer
  • Predictive Workbench supports creating custom R Scripts

Business Story

Analyze your business better. Build a business story and translate that story into results. Engage your Executive Team and explain your strategies and results more powerfully by approaching your project as a story. You will need the "What?" of your story (the facts and data) as well as the "Who? How? And Why?" and the often missed "So what?" These are the story elements that will make your data relevant and tangible to your audience. Creating a good story can aid you and the Executive Team in focusing on what is important. Stories bring life to data and facts. They can help you make sense and order out of a disparate collection of facts. They make it easier to remember key points and can paint a vivid picture of what the future can look like.

Survey

New Features:

A new website – www.bizvizsurvey.com has been launched with an enhanced UI.

Sentiment Analyzer

Enhanced UI and improved library.

Social Media Browser

New Features:

This utility can extract relevant information from Facebook, Twitter, websites, etc. The extracted data (structured, semi-structured, or unstructured) can then be consumed for Sentiment analytics and R based analysis. The results can then be pushed to BDB’s Dashboarding framework.

Recommendations:
Product Description
Predictive Workbench A .csv file size of up to 1.5 MB can be uploaded.
Predictive Workbench A Data grid of up to 500,000 cells can be loaded.
Predictive Workbench In a scatter plot, the quality of graph will decrease as columns are added (50 column limit).
Predictive Workbench For time series, up to 1500 rows are supported.
Predictive Workbench In MS SQL, a maximum of 1000 rows can be written simultaneously

Known Limitations:
ID # Description
11513 Predictive Workbench – Time series charts will not plot data that is in exponential format.
11454 Predictive Workbench -Visualisation_Apriori_User should be restricted to view a maximum of number of rules.
11588 Predictive Workbench - User cannot connect multiple components from a single node of another component.
Dashboard Designer - Export dashboard to image / PowerPoint will skip graphics and SVG components in this version. Those components won't be visible in screenshots.
12068 Platform - Live comment for document blog.
12156 Platform - Custom field property is not working.
11548 Platform - Query Service share option to other users.
12013 Platform - In User Management, editing the user group.

Please Note:
  • Social Media Browser : - This product is currently at the Beta stage. It can be used internally, but users may experience defects and usability issues.
  • Sentiment Analyzer : - NLP (Natural Language Processing) of Sentiment Analyzer is currently at the Beta stage. Our language experts are continually upgrading and improving the NLP dictionary and algorithms. It can be used internally, but users may experience defects and usability issues.
  • Business story : - This product is currently at the Alpha stage. Users can test and experiment with this product, but we do not encourage anyone to use it in a production environment.