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Empower Data Platform v1.18

about 1 year ago by [email protected]

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Empower UX capability and Data Platform updates

Overview

This release introduces role-based access controls (RBAC) in your Empower deployment. Administrators in your deployment can define user access levels on an environment, organization, or enterprise level of granularity. Additionally, you can now configure data in your delta lake to be published out to SFTP servers in CSV, TSV, and parquet file formats.

  • Role Based Access Controls (RBAC): A brand new access control feature for Empower to enable fine grained control of your deployment.
  • Data Publishing to SFTP Server: After defining a connection to an SFTP data source, you can now push data tables from your delta lake.

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What's New

RBAC controls will enable your administrative team to enable or restrict data movement access. You can now configure and schedule data movement from any delta table in your lakehouse to SFTP, where your data can be automatically converted into CSV, TSV, or parquet file formats.

  • RBAC: Your administrators can now grant access levels on users in v1.18! Users may be granted different degrees of access, depending on your needs. This release acts as a half-step: RBAC controls will not be enforced until v1.19 (see the Notes section below). Our published documentation explains how to define these roles.
  • Data Publishing to SFTP Server: Users can now configure Empower to write tables to SFTP Servers as part of their data estate. Data can be scheduled to be published after being ingested from other sources, upon model build completion, or even as a regularly scheduled cadence, i.e. every day at 5pm. Supported file formats include CSV, TSV, and Parquet. Just like SQL Server, you can conditionally define subsets of your data using SQL where clauses.

Notes

  • Data Publishing to SFTP is data platform-only feature for release 1.18. This feature will be made available in the Empower UI in a subsequent release.
  • RBAC will be a phased release, with enforcement being enabled over time:
    • V1.18: RBAC is introduced, allowing role assignment; but rules aren't enforced.
    • V1.19: RBAC rule enforcement may be feature flagged, defaulting to off.
    • V1.20: RBAC rule enforcement may be feature flagged, defaulting to on.
    • V1.21+: RBAC rule enforcement is required and can't be turned off.