Monday, 27 November 2017

EDM v17.1 Release Notification

November 27th 2017
IHS Markit is pleased to announce the v17.1 release of our Enterprise Data Management (EDM) software which is now generally available. The highlights of this release are as follows:

Dashboards

  • Display multiple visual elements representing data sets, charts, functions and reports.
  • Summarize key metrics and trends for data in your EDM implementation.
  • Use the same reports or elements in multiple zones on a single dashboard.
  • Visualize the same report data (for example) as both a bar chart and a pie chart.
  • Share dashboards and access shared dashboards.
  • Allow specified 'collaborators' to edit shared dashboards.
  • Lock dashboards to prevent concurrent editing.
  • Resize the browser window to see 'responsive' elements adapt accordingly.
  • Allow dashboard elements to communicate via 'channels'.
  • Users can edit the default element name when adding to a dashboard.

Chart Export

  • Save charts for sharing or inclusion in documents.
  • Export as an image.
  • Export in Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format.

EDM Groups

  • New EDM Groups tab within Console Grouping and Security allows custom groups of EDM users to be created.
  • Users can be added to EDM Groups from other EDM Groups or from Active Directory.
  • Groups of users can be assigned permissions in a way that is less cumbersome than creating Active Directory groups for this purpose.

Favourites

  • Add pages to your list of favourite pages via one click on the Page Toolbar.
  • Access your list of favourite pages via a link in the Side Menu.

Doughnut KPI Chart

  • New 'Doughnut KPI' UI element within the Key Performance Indicator category.
  • Displays value as a percentage towards a target.

Client-Facing RESTful API

  • Exposes core EDM functionality; specifically the EDM Data Generator Service.
  • Includes an EDM Token Service for authorization via a JSON Web Token (JWT).

Page Layout for Workflows

  • Layout for workflows now based on a fixed 24 column grid, with rows fixed at 30 pixel height.
  • Database Upgrade Wizard converts workflows to the new layout.
  • Row count for conversion defaults to 24, but can be changed.

Data Generators - HTML5

  • Generator Inbox Grid UI element upgraded to HTML5.
  • Powerful facilities for paging, sorting and filtering items.
  • All editing options now consolidated into the "Enable Editing" link.
  • Default paging set to 50 rows per page on upgrade.

New UI System

  • Side Menu with links to pages, dashboards and favourites.
  • Administration Toolbar with a link to the 'about' page and (in future) an administration section.
  • Page Toolbar facilitating access to page-level functions such as editing, sharing and adding pages to favourites.

Published Elements

  • Organise elements into categories, and tag with keywords.
  • Provide a business-friendly name and description for end users.
  • Set input / output mapping for components to communicate within the dashboard.
  • Create an inventory of elements to be used when building dashboards.

Doughnut Charts

  • HTML5-based.
  • Same features as the pie chart.
  • Easy to configure and migrate to the doughnut style.

Version Control

  • Checked-out Components View now allows sorting by "Type", "Name", "Check Out To" or "Check Out Date".
  • Version Control labels can now be chosen from a drop-down list on check-in. 
  • Package Export Wizard now allows exporting of components for a specific label or multiple labels.

Data Porter 'BulkCopy' Default

  • DPTransferSystem in CADIS_SYS.CO_DBPARM now specifies the default transfer method for all Data Porters.
  • The default 'BulkCopy' database transfer method can be changed, and individual Data Porters can be overridden using the drop-down at each step.

Other Changes

  • Visual and architectural changes to the look, feel and performance of the thin-client Web UI by introducing Angular 2 and streamlining CSS.
  • Ability to hide or show location of environment, and new location of environment description.
  • Read-only mode introduced for Core Matcher UI.
  • To improve efficiency when wiring up elements in a workflow, default settings for input / output parameters of newly created UI elements now set to fixed values: "null" for inputs, and "not visible" for outputs.
For additional information about this release please see the EDM v17.1.110.11 release note, and for the version documentation please see the EDM v17.1 version note.
Please contact your client manager if you are interested in upgrading to this release.
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