Changelog

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Key Changes & Improvements

🔜 Coming Soon: The Empower name will be changing to the Hitachi Unified Data Accerator in future releases.

📊 Modeling with Microsoft Fabric: Support for modeling and transformations using Microsoft Fabric.

↔️ Guided Data Migrations: A redesigned, step-by-step migration experience with clearer guidance and fewer manual requirements.

🎯 Task-Level Model Entity Control: Choose exactly which entities run for each Transform Task for greater flexibility and control.

📂 File Drop Connector: New event-based file ingestion with rule configuration directly in the UI.

🔌 Multiple IR Hybrid Environment Support for Publish: Configure multiple Integration Runtimes for a single Publish connection.

✨ Multiple Quality of Life Improvements across Connect, Tasks, Models, and Data Migration.

🐞 Multiple Bug Fixes

Learn more in the sections below!

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Key Changes & Improvements

🔃 Power BI Table Level Refresh: Selectively refresh individual tables in Power BI datasets during Publish Tasks to reduce runtime and compute usage.

⏰ Advanced Scheduling: Gain more control over workflow execution with expanded scheduling options, exclusions, and recurring patterns.

🔌 Multiple IR Hybrid Environment Support: Map multiple Integration Runtimes to a single Connector type across on‑prem, cloud, and hybrid environment setups.

✨ Multiple Quality of Life Improvements: Cluster configuration is now available for Publish to Target Publish Tasks, easily view detail error messgaes related to a Data Migration, and Extend Tasks now support running any ADF pipeline.

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Key Changes & Improvements

🔄 Extend Tasks Expansion
Mix and match the orchestration of external services - Databricks Jobs, Fabric Notebooks, Fabric Pipelines, Logic Apps, ADF, and Function Apps - directly from within Empower.

🔧 Data Migration Enhancements We've expanded Data Migration capabilities to support promotion of Workflows, Fivetran Tasks, Extend Tasks, and Publish Tasks between environments.

🚨 Error Message Banner Real-time validation and error feedback now available in editable grid views within the Modeling module.

🔔 Notifications Nudge Gentle reminders to enable notification emails for users who haven’t turned them on yet.

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Key Changes & Improvements

🔄 Sync Model Entity Metadata
Automate entity column population in model buildouts with metadata from Unity Catalog.

🔧 Multiple Integration Runtime Support
Enabled support for multiple Integration Runtimes, allowing connections to diverse data sources and the integration of existing customer-managed IRs for enhanced flexibility and security.

✨ Workflows Interface Enhancements
Enjoy a cohesive redesign and improved filtering options in the Workflows page.

🚀 Small Changes, Big Impact: Quality of Life Improvements
Experience streamlined navigation and enhanced functionality across various modules.

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Key Changes & Improvements

We’re excited to introduce Empower v1.41, featuring several significant enhancements. Here are the main highlights:

✨ Extend Task Redesign: The Extend Tasks page has been redesigned to align with other task pages creating a more seamless and intuitive experience.

📝 New Entity Column - Entity Autocomplete: The Entity field now auto-populates when adding columns in the Model module.

🌐 Tasks - Global Search: The search bar capability has been expanded to cover key columns outside of just the name.

🗂️ Multiple Filtering Enhancements: We've added filters across the platform to make the user experience easier and more efficient.

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Key Changes and Improvements

We have A LOT of great updates coming out in v1.40:

• Self-Service Error Reset: You can now reset acquisition tasks on your own from the Dashboard module.
• Email Notifications (BETA): Beta rollout of email notifications for key events and workflows.
• Fivetran Connections GA: Fivetran Connections are now generally available. 100+ new connections are now instantly available for all in the Connections module!
• Task Page Redesigns - Task pages have been redesigned from card-based to table-based layouts.(excluding Extend, coming soon!)
• Model Entity Navigation Update: Modeling has been moved out of the Transform section into its own top-level menu item for better discoverability.
• Transform Task Autocomplete: Model fields now autocomplete when configuring transform tasks for ease of use.
• Improved Task Visibility on Connect Pages: Associated tasks are now shown in an accordion view for better clarity and navigation.

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Key Changes and Improvements

Empower v1.39 introduces powerful new features and usability improvements to help you manage your data estate with greater visibility and control.

• New Health & Performance Dashboard: Get a high-level view of task and workflow health, object acquisitions, and runtime performance—all in one place.
• Streamlined Navigation Menu: A redesigned sidepane makes it faster and easier to move across key Empower modules.
• Metadata Catalog Bulk Editing: Save time by editing multiple metadata fields across many objects at once.
• Fivetran Connect Cards (Private Preview): Start exploring our upcoming Fivetran integrations—available to early access users by request.

This release focuses on usability, insight, and efficiency. Dive into the details in the sections below or check out the docs to learn more.

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Key Changes & Improvements

• Quick Help - In-App Documentation: Instantly access page-specific documentation guides directly within Empower via a new help button.
• Change Tracking for SQL Server and Azure SQL DB: The ability to choose change tracking as the merge strategy from the metadata catalog for SQL Server and Azure SQL DB connections.
• Group Role Assignment: RBAC functionality has been expanded by enabling the assignment of roles to entire user groups, simplifying role management and accelerating user onboarding.
• View Trace Link for Errors: Easily debug the root cause of errors with a new "View Trace" link included directly within error message pop-up, providing quick access to detailed trace information.
• DB2 Self-Service Connector: You can now setup DB2 connections from the Empower UI.

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Key Changes & Improvements

• Batch and Cluster Configuration: Users with advanced options enabled can now choose to enable batch extraction and configure clusters for Data Flows.
• Transform Flows - Skipped Status Support: Improved the Transform run history logs by clearly distinguishing entities that are skipped due to a predecessor's failure to enhance root cause identification and debugging efficiency.
• Connection Schema Name Validation: Added validation to entering the same name for Bronze and Silver schema inputs when setting up a connection to avoid downstream failures.
• Redshift Self-Service Connector: You can now setup Redshift connections from the Empower UI.
• OneDrive Self-Service Connector: You can now setup OneDrive connections from the Empower UI.
• Connector Support for Excel Files: Support for Excel files (.xls and .xlsx) has been added to the Sharepoint, AWS S3, SFTP connectors.

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Key Changes & Improvements

Note that due to the holidays, work for versions 1.35 and 1.36 has been combined into a single release: 1.36.

• PowerBI Support for Publishing Data Flows: Empower now allows you to refresh a PowerBI dataset directly from the UI when adding a Publish step using Workflows and Data Flows.
• Menu & Naming Convention Enhancements: Key changes have been made to naming conventions and menu navigation for improved intuitiveness, including a direct link to documentation and an improved menu collapse button.
• Workflows Enhancements: A new "Runs" tab has been added to the Workflows Overview screen, providing a complete list of all runs along with detailed information about each workflow step. We've also added filtering and tooltips to make navigation use even easier.
• Cornerstone Self-Service Connector: You can now setup Cornerstone connections from the Empower UI.
• AWS S3 Bucket Self-Service Connector: You can now setup AWS S3 Bucket connections from the Empower UI.
• SFTP Connector Enhancement - Support for CSV and JSON files: The SFTP connector now supports the ingestion of both CSV and JSON files.
• Databricks Connector Enhancement - New Auth Type Option: A new authentication option using OAuth with a service principal has been added for Azure Databricks access.