Empower Data Platform v1.17

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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.

Empower Data Platform v1.16

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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.

Empower Data Platform v1.15

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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.

Empower Data Platform v1.14

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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

Empower Data Platform v1.13

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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.

Empower Data Platform Version v1.12

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Empower UX capability and Data Platform updates

Overview

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 Data Platform Version v1.11

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Empower UX capability and CLI Updates

Overview

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.

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Empower Data Platform Version 1.10

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Empower UX capability and CLI Updates

Overview

In this release, Empower customers can now access the user interface for the first time - with the ability to create and manage data source connections for seven different data source types.

On top of that, customers can promote configuration changes made to certain database entities (DataModelConfig and ObjectModelList) from lower to higher environments using the command line interface (CLI) tool.

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Empower Data Platform Version 1.8

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Minor Improvements and User Sync

Version 1.8 includes a number of minor improvement designed to improve reliability and prepare for the broad release of the Empower UX capability.

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Empower Data Platform Version 1.7

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60% More Model Build Performance

Customers can now leverage our new model build process in order to achieve better performance -- with some customers saving hours of time. Continuing our efforts towards near real time.