Changelog

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Empower UX capability and Data Platform updates

Overview

Expert users can utilize powerful Advanced Options capabilities to do all the things that your delivery team does today! Configure your own data estate for data ingestion and modeling within the UI. Just like in v1.19, you may enable RBAC enforcement within your deployment to test out your permission configuration. We are expanding our self-service data connector capabilities. Check out the Data Sources tab in the UI to see them all.

• Self-Service Data Acquisition and Analytics: Advanced Options tab expanded to include self-service data acquisition and analytics configurations!
• Role Based Access Controls (RBAC) Enforceable: A brand new access control feature for Empower to enable fine grained control of your deployment!
• New Data Connectors: 25+ full self-service data sources now supported by Empower! Connect, explore, and unleash your data's full potential!

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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. There are additional self-service data sources now supported for data acquisition!

• Role Based Access Controls (RBAC) Enforceable: A brand new access control feature for Empower to enable fine grained control of your deployment. Ask your delivery manager to enable RBAC enforcement when you're ready to test your newly configured access controls.
• New Data Connectors: With 22 full self-service data sources now supported by Empower, you can easily integrate them into your data estate from the UI. Connect, explore, and unleash your data's full potential!

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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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Empower UX capability and Data Platform updates

Overview

Empower v1.17 is designed to elevate operational efficiency and effective data management, contributing to an enhanced user experience and more strategic control over your data assets.

• Metadata Catalog Performance: Pagination support now enables quicker and more efficient browsing of large sources, improving your navigation experience.
• Enhanced CRUD Capabilities: Advanced users can now perform bulk deletions, transforming multiple deletion steps into a single click for streamlined data management.
• Data Publishing to SQL Server: Empower supports table writing to SQL Servers, featuring flexible event-based and time-based scheduling options for enhanced control over data integration and automation.

The new functionalities in Empower v1.17 are strategically designed to simplify navigation and data management, offer flexible scheduling, and optimize business processes, all contributing to the ongoing growth and success of your organization.

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Empower UX capability and Data Platform updates

Overview

Empower v1.16 introduces beneficial features that enhance your business operations and support its growth, paving the way for a more efficient and productive future.

Here's why:

• Batch Modeling Optimization: Experience up to 50% faster model building speeds and more efficient cluster utilization during the build phase, reducing Azure Data Factory (ADF) costs.
• Improved Metadata Catalog: Enjoy a more comprehensive visualization of field details and ensure the validity of timestamp types with datetime validation on watermark columns.
• Enhanced CRUD Capability: Advanced users now have more CRUD capabilities for the state database, providing better control and flexibility in managing data.
• Embedded PowerBI: Now offering near-realtime insights into your deployment health and events. The benefit? Not only do you make smarter, data-driven decisions, but you also gain knowledge of how and when your data is flowing.
• Empower Enterprise Chat: Advanced AI chat tools like OpenAI GPT4, privately & securely ($995/month)

Empower v1.16 offers valuable improvements, including enhanced control and flexibility in data management, seamless data integration, faster model building, comprehensive field visualization, and advanced AI chat tools. These benefits contribute to streamlining your business processes, optimizing efficiency, and ultimately driving growth and success for your organization.

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Empower UX capability and Data Platform updates

Overview

Empower v1.15 is more than just a software update; it's priming the pump for some game-changing features for your business. This update starts to move the needle.

Here's why:

• Data Ingestion Upgrade: Our new batch-ingestion engine delivers up to 40% speedups in ingestion and 28% faster runtimes. The advantage? Significant time and cost savings.
• Advanced Data Management Capabilities: CRUD abilities on DatabaseToStepCommand, Model, and Entity Tables, plus view-only for ObjectExtract/Ingest Tables. The result? More control and clarity in managing your data.

Empower v1.15 is designed to optimize your operations and enhance data management efficiency.

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Empower UX capability and Data Platform updates

Overview

Get ready for the exciting Empower v1.14 release, packed with updates and improvements:

• Data Catalog: Redesigned data pipeline & Unity Catalog integration for end-to-end Lakehouse visibility, security, and governance
• Metadata Management: Edit source metadata with validation logic; full system expansion coming soon
• Model Builder 2.0: 50% faster data modeling performance - no effort required
• Internal Data Sharing: Grant permissions for seamless data sharing within your organization
• Delta Sharing with Partners: Instant, secure data sharing between business partners
• Enterprise Chat: Advanced AI chat tools like OpenAI GPT4, privately & securely ($995/month)
• Generative AI for Developers: Full LLM lifecycle support with Databricks' Lakehouse AI capabilities
• Improved Ingestion Engine: 20% faster pipeline ingestion & further enhancements in August

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Empower UX capability and Data Platform updates

Overview

In the Empower UI, we are moving closer to achieving complete support for Metadata Management. This includes support for metadata extraction/refresh and the capability to view extracted metadata at both the object-level and the field-level. These enhancements provide users with greater visibility into their source metadata, which sets the foundation for effective Data Acquisition (DAQ) flow management.

Meanwhile, we are refactoring connectors to ensure compliance with the new ingestion engine, including the Kronos connector. Our connector library is continuously expanding, offering clients access to a wider range of data sources with every release.

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Empower UX capability and Data Platform updates

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An upgraded user experience has been introduced, allowing users to effortlessly extract metadata from a diverse range of sources on the Data Sources page.

Significant improvements have been implemented, including optimizing the existing ingestion engine, resulting in reduced latency and better overall performance.

We have begun the process of refactoring and upgrading data source connectors to leverage a new, unreleased Spark-based ingestion engine, empowering customers with faster and more efficient data processing capabilities.

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Empower UX capability and CLI Updates

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In this release, Empower customers can now enjoy expanded functionality of the Data Sources UX - with the ability to create and manage source connections to 5 more source types!

The team has also implemented additional entity support to CLI Configuration Promotion. Empower CLI users will now be able to promote data source-related entities between their Empower environments.

Lastly, Empower Release 1.11 also features one major data platform enhancement - supporting the execution of version-controlled Databricks notebooks.