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Empower Update

What's new, What's next and Why you should upgrade.


History of Empower 3

2013FR2

2014SR2

2010Empower 3

2014HF1

2012FR1

2015HF2

2016HF1

20XX2018SR3

2019Cloud 1.1

2019FR5

2016FR3

2017FR4

2017Cloud

2011SR1

http://cloudtimes.org/2013/02/27/red-hat-big-data-open-hybrid-clouds/


Empower 3 SR3


Highlights of Empower 3 SR3

Integrity Check on demand New Message Center application Dynamic Project Quotas New user privilege options Injection and channel field acquisition status More descriptive messages in Message Center Integration optimization without Bias: Preventing Integration into Specification More granular privileges Unlock Methods


Project Integrity Check on demand

– No longer is the ability to test for faulty data only available upon backup

–Test is logged in system audit trail

Happy Auditors Happy Customers



Injection and Channel Status- easy to understand- easy to explain


Injection Status Channel Status

Acquisition in Progress Incomplete Data Being Acquired

Acquisition Completed Successfully Complete Acquisition Finished

Data aborted during pre-inject sequence User Abort No Data File Created

No Data Acquired

Data aborted during acquisition User Abort Acquisition Finished

Instrument failure caused acquisition to stop Instrument Failure Acquisition Finished

Data was imported Imported blank

Data is from before SR3 Pre-Empower 3 SR3 blank

Common Status Combinations


Fewer Distractions – Higher Productivity

Never see another Tablespace error – Tablespace grows automatically “available tablespace (9.312500 MB) below minimum level to continue processing, Processing Aborted”


Fewer Distractions – Higher Productivity

Elimination of distractions (popups)

- Immediate messages popup can be disabled when email immediate messages is configured


Permits notification when NOT logged into Empower

Configurable in System Policies Default values represent behavior

prior to E3 SR3

Email Notifications


Searchable Messages No Need to purge Never worry about managing your messages ever again Snappy search results – 1 million messages Consistent High Performance – messages move to nearline



Easier Searching – Higher Productivity

Find the most important messages

Only See messages that apply to you

- Scroll through messages without fear of the list refreshing

- Search by User Location - Just In Time Filters


Message Center – User Location

Filtered Location Tracking of people, systems and nodes─ ideal for companies with large multi site installations

(Messages will display the user location only)


Solve Problems Faster – Message Center

Solve Problems faster (more descriptive error messages)


Redesigned for improved performance– Online and nearline data

View Filters for filtering and searching Updating controlled by the user (no more ‘system scrolling’ due to automatic message updates)

Checkbox to optionally ‘Include Nearline Messages’– Messages moved to nearline when 1.5M messages are reached – 500k moved – Nearline messages stored in Empower DB tables and are backed up with the database

Message Center


Message Management to NearLine

650k

1.6m

1.1m 1.01m 500k

500k

1.51m

500k 500k

… …


Unfiltered Message Views, – My Messages – messages spawned by the logged in user (current user type, or all user types?)

– My Group Messages – provides messages of all users in the same user group as the logged in user– All Messages – provides all messages of all users– Ordered with the most recent messages at the top – Columns also sortable by clicking on header in all tabs

My Group Messages and All Messages – available only to admin and users with the privilege to ‘View Message Center for All Users’

Search Messages – provides view filter functionality

Message Center


Message Center tool available in every Empower application window to launch MC– Message Center is no longer in System Tray– No longer consumes a Citrix license

Message Center tool in Message Center – navigates user to My Messages tab– Tooltip = View Recent Messages– Turns red when there are unread messages of Type = Error

Message Center


Message Center Application


Privilege to ‘View Numerical and Textual Results in Review’ Removes the worry of reprocessing multiple times to ‘hunt’ for a passing result

– (integration into specification) – All users except Guest are granted this privilege by default– The lack of privilege prevents access to

o Peak Tableo Result Windowo Result Audit Viewero Calibration Curve Windowo Spectrum Index tabo Mass Analysis Window

Optimize Integration without Bias


Peace of mind of locked methods; – ability to modify them in a controlled

manner when necessary

For all method types The ‘unlock’ results in a new method

version Privilege controlled

– Unlock Method privilege is granted by default to Administrators and Validation Administrators

Action is recorded in project audit trail

Unlocking Methods


Improved wording to clarify this is not a nefarious or alarming event Prior to Empower 3 SR3:

– No results produced for this processing job (MC) / Result set deleted in (audit trail)

In Empower 3 SR3:– “Removed Empty Result Set” and its corresponding miscellaneous message "Empty Result Set

container automatically removed by the Empower system because no results were produced".

Revised Audit Trail for “Result Set Deleted”


Providing more granular control of important configuration activities

Enabled by default for all user types except Guest

System and Node Privileges


Providing more granular control of Custom Field management

Prior to SR3– Custom Field permissions included in

Alter Any Project Privilege

After E3 SR3– Custom Field Management is discrete– Unique Privileges– Separate to Alter Any Project

Granularity to Alter Any Project Privilege


When object is deleted, associated object deletion is logged in project audit trail When an Injection/Channel/Sample Set/Result Set is deleted

– the associated (child) items are deleted automatically – All will appear in the Audit Trail,

o except Fractions and Peaks.

Audit Trail associated items of deletion


Focused Service Release for Compliance Enhancements

Empower SR3

New Tools to troubleshoot Data Errors

Integrate without Bias

New Message Center

New and More

Granular Privileges

Audit Trail Enhancements


Empower 3 Feature Release 5


Empower 3 Feature Release 5

Oracle 18c to support Windows 10 ( as well as 7 Lac/e only) Windows Server 2016 support (obsoletes server 2012, 2008) Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 support RedHat Linux 7.6 support ZenApp 7.15 support Defect repairs

http://cloudtimes.org/2013/02/27/red-hat-big-data-open-hybrid-clouds/


Focused on Productivity

New Recovery Option:• After Injection (Recommended)• After Sample Set

Provides Recovery alternative for nodes displaying productivity loses following buffering.


Message Center update

Some customers with network limitations have experienced a crash in review linked to the message center icon.- As a immediate response the icon color change is disabled in FR5 and the

upcoming SR3 Hotfix.- This functionality will be restored in a future release.


Updating Channel Status

RESOLUTION: In the unlikely event an incorrect channel status occurs,new logic is in place that should ensure the status is appropriately updated before the data is used for plotting or processing.

Addressing customer reports of incorrect channel status “Data Incomplete” • High network latency seems to be the

common factor where reported.


LDAP Authentication – Now Supports TLS 1.2


SecurityNetwork Traffic between Empower Server and Clients/Laces – Encryption now available.


Cloud Updates

Additional regions available to better meet your needs.

Automated templates now include a choice of CPU to support different size empower deployments.

Now supports Japanese language.


Provides the means to import 3rd party raw data into Empower’s

Supports strategies to provide compliant workflows for systems that currently do not include such feature

Supports CDS standardization strategy by enabling Empower to process raw data from other systems

WDC 2.1 released in 2012– Supports MassLynx, Agilent

Chemstation, Atlas 8.2 and PE TotalChrom

2018 Releases– WDC 2.1 HF2 addressed robustness

issues in automated mode

2019 Plans– .netCDF/ANDI filter – to support Protein

Simple and other systems– WDC 3.0

o New modernized producto Initial filters

• Thermo Chromeleon 6.8• Thermo Chromeleon 7.2

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