LAE 4.6 New Feature Overview

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What’s new in LAE 4.6?

New product offerings

External viewer integration

Drag-and-drop file acquisition

Help system enhancements

Node Editor enhancements

Excel node enhancements

Extended environment support

License administration enhancements

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Lavastorm Analytic Platform

Ease of Use &

Visualization

Cloud Computing & Virtualization

Inter-operability

Marketplace Model

Portable Computing

Big Data Analytics

Lavastorm Analytics Engine 4.6 Overview

LAE 4.6• Virtual Machine

Support

LAE 4.6• New product SKUs• License administration

enhancements

LAE 4.6• External viewer integration (QlikView, Excel CSV)• Extended help improvements• User interface enhancements• Excel node improvements

Replace monolithic products with tiered functionality and pricing to lower adoption barriers

Begin providing support for popular, IT-friendly VM deployment scheme

QlikView and Excel data viewer integration allows a powerful combination of LAE analytics with desktop visualization tools

Continued focus on improving user experience and enabling customers to be productive and self-sufficient

Automation of license activation, plus simplification of server connection license administration

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New product offerings

Lavastorm expands product offerings to provide a more gradual price/performance curve from free to enterprise level

New feature licensing model necessary to release new SKUs without simply discounting existing offerings

License scheme enables new distribution mechanisms such as node pack or single-node releases

Server EditionsDesktop Editions

LAE Professional Edition

• 1m record limit• Extended Core

Library• DBMS Access• Advanced

Analytics• Extended Support

• Forum & Email

LAE Workgroup Edition

• Medium-Scale Needs• 6 concurrent users• Single 4-core machine

limit• Standalone server• Full Automation

LAE Public Edition

• 100,000 record limit• Limited Core Library

• No database access

• No Advanced Analytics

• Forum Support Only

LAE Enterprise Edition

• Large-Scale Needs• Variable concurrency• 4-core “base” + N-core

cluster• Farming / Cluster

enabled• Full Automation

LAE Professional Plus Edition

• 10m record limit• Extended Core

Library• DBMS Access• Advanced

Analytics• Development

interfaces• Advanced

Collaboration• Extended Support

• Forum & Email

Scale at the pace of your data & analytic needs

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External viewer integration

Default data viewer can be supplemented with QlikView or MS Excel, allowing users to view node output data in their chosen tool.

Future releases may provide integration with additional tools, including user-defined ones

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Drag-and-drop file acquisition

Files may now be dragged from Windows Explorer directly onto the BRE canvas

File Extension Node Created Notes

*.brd BRD File Configured to read the input file

*.csv CSV File Configured to read the input file

*.xls, *.xlsx Excel File Configured to read the input file

*.txt Delimited File Configured to read the input file, using a single “Data” column for the header. If a field delimiter is specified, this “Data” value should be cleared from the optional FieldNames parameter in order to properly parse the data.

*.sql DB Query Configures SqlQuery parameter with the source SQL script

*.brn <Node> Adds the node to the current graph, as in previous versions

<Directory> Directory List Configured to read the input directory, with file pattern “*.*”

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Help system enhancements

Unification– All help topics now use the same top-level menu for accessing each of the major

help components (e.g. BRE, BRAINscript).

Multimedia tutorials– New tutorials for several activities have been added. These tutorials include tech

notes, graphs, data, and video content.

HTML rendering improvements– Help uses a new style sheet which makes help easier to read and to navigate.

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Node Editor enhancements

Node parameter groups now have logical names (e.g. “General”, “Optional”, not just “Parameters 1”, “Parameters 2”) which may be user-configured

Node parameters now provide visual cues when they are not satisfied by valid input values

Node execution status is displayed in main window

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Excel node enhancements

Excel File (acquisition) node now supports large XLSX inputs without memory issues, and Output Excel (publishing) node can now output to XLSX format in addition to XLS

Excel Output node can update existing sheets, allowing users to configure complex pivots, charts, or other views and have them refreshed by new LAE output data sets

New Append Excel node can add new data to an existing sheet, add new sheets to an existing workbook

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Extended environment support

VMWare/Linux deployment configuration is now officially supported

Red Hat Linux 6 is now a supported operating system

Java 1.7 is supported for Linux/Solaris server installations

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License administration enhancements

Server connection license allocation has been simplified. Server administrators may allocate seats simply by moving users into licensed groups, removing the need for individual users to obtain and activate their own licenses.

License activation has been automated, removing the need for users to visit the License Activation Center website and download license files when they wish to install/renew software.

The server software now verifies that the core count on the hosting machine matches the L-CPU allocation in the license. Customers can now be certain that their deployments comply with their contracted computing capacity. Virtualization may be used to apportion the appropriate capacity from host machines.

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