Empower Data Platform v1.23

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Empower UX capability and Data Platform updates

  • Metadata Error Handling: Metadata extraction now contains more helpful error messages!
  • Self-Service Data Management: New guides are available for self-service data management using Advanced Options!
  • New Data Connectors: 31 full self-service data sources now supported by Empower! Connect, explore, and unleash your data's full potential!

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Self-Service Data Acquisition and Analytics

The Advanced Options page now contains more upgrades and Quality of Life features to assist you in self-service management.

Please view our newest user guides on Data Acquisition, Modeling, Data Publishing, and Advanced Options.

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New Data Sources Available

Your deployment now enables you to self-service configure 31 data sources. New sources for this version include Dynamics CE and FO - Direct and BirdEye.

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Dynamics Publishing Capability - Public Preview!

You can use the Dynamics - Direct sources as publishing targets as well as data sources. Please note, this is not yet currently supported from the UI directly. Ask your delivery team how to use this functionality.

Itemized Changelog

Enhancements & New Features

  • Added Celery Flower to clusters for improved task monitoring.
  • Deployed version 1.23 to Capax environments.
  • Added a new endpoint to AoD connector for Attendance On Demand.
  • Included support for Bronze and Silver schema in Data Sources.
  • Updated GET and POST endpoints to return BronzeSchema and SilverSchema properties.
  • Improved Object Ingest, Extract, Model endpoints with django pagination.
  • Enhanced UI for data publishing flows, including support for Bronze and Silver schema.
  • Added full CRUD support for Publish Entities inside of publishing flows.
  • Improved data-publishing flow list component with run and schedule flow capabilities.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where Config Promo was not working due to a login failure.
  • Resolved a cluster validation error related to missing instance pool.
  • Removed deprecated applications from the empower-enterprise Helm Chart to enhance security.
  • Fixed various issues related to SFTP Filetypes, hive_metastore configurations, HTTP errors, Model Build Failures, SFTP server connections, and more across the CoreData and CoreData/Spark areas.
  • Corrected Optional field display for Azure MySQL source type.
  • Resolved issues related to Publishing Flow validation, Config Migration, POST Flows containing an empty body, and several other API-related bugs.
  • Addressed navigation issues, AG Grid Header visual issues, sorting and styling issues, column width problems, toggle state changes, form field label issues, visual issues of flow list components, autocomplete search dropdown display issues, Role tree visual issues, filtering issues, and animation trigger issues in the X/UI area.

Other Notes

We've added a few pages to our public doc site:

  • Our new Product Principles page defines our North Star for feature development.
  • The Empower lexicon is now contained within our new Core Concepts page; check it out to educate yourself on the Lakehouse-integration vision!