What’s New in theQuadstone System Version 5.1

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What's New in Version 5.1

• Presenter: Alistair Ewing, Product Manager Overview: Version 5.1 will be released for General Availability 4th July 2005. This webinar highlights the key new features and functionality and illustrates some the release’s “best-kept secrets.”

• Audience: Existing Quadstone users that plan to use Version 5.1 and want to learn more about it.

• Format: A live demonstration with slides for sign-posting; no follow-up exercises

• Duration: 1 hour

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Quadstone System Version 5.1

• Key themes:• Performance

• Usability

• Collaboration

• General Availability: 4th July 2005

• The 10th Anniversary release!

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Business-centric analysis, circa 1995

Data

Decision

Collation

Preprocessing

Eyeballing

Model Building

Eyeballing

Postprocessing

Output

TheBusinessAnalyst“in the loop”

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New viewers

Data

Decision

Collation

Preprocessing

Eyeballing

Model Building

Eyeballing

Postprocessing

Output

TheBusinessAnalyst“in the loop”

For the Decisionhouse user:

Compare segments

• Across treated/control partitions

• Across multiple measures

Better use of block colors;

Automatic categorical interpretation;

Main window comments;

Email results directly from viewers;

Web-enabled Map Viewer Plugins.

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Easier data access

Data

Decision

Collation

Preprocessing

Eyeballing

Model Building

Eyeballing

Postprocessing

Output

TheBusinessAnalyst“in the loop”

For anyone accessing data:

Simplified flat file access:

• Fixed-format flat file wizard

• Much simpler for all formats

• Improved format “guessing”

Extended access to stats datasets:

• From the command line

• As input to Profile and Audit

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New Data Build Commands

Data

Decision

Collation

Preprocessing

Eyeballing

Model Building

Eyeballing

Postprocessing

Output

TheBusinessAnalyst“in the loop”

For the data architect:Join and merge many foci;

Simplified join behavior with duplicate keys;

“Every field except” restrictions on inputs;

Improved error messages;

Updated and accessible help…

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Improved performance

Data

Decision

Collation

Preprocessing

Eyeballing

Model Building

Eyeballing

Postprocessing

Output

TheBusinessAnalyst“in the loop”

For the data architect:In particular for the Data Build Commands, at scale –

“just work out of the box”

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New Data Build Manager

Data

Decision

Collation

Preprocessing

Eyeballing

Model Building

Eyeballing

Postprocessing

Output

TheBusinessAnalyst“in the loop”

(aka qsbuild)

For the analyst:Execute and parameterize data builds via a graphical interface.

For the data architect:Robust, scalable, parameterizable data-build utility for (complex) customer-oriented ETL

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Maintenance

Top 5 issues-fixed:

• Focus refresh with categoricals

• Whitespace in audits path

• Field naming in join wizard

• Left outer join in qsjoin

• Significance with single customer

Top 5 feature requests:

• Auto-interpretation of string fields

• Comments in Main Window

• Better color discrimination

• Join and merge on > 2 foci

• Exclude fields in DBCs

• 500 issues completed (~100 new feature reqs.)= ~50 customer Call Reports

• Longest-standing request: Improved color discrimination [Feb ’98]

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Availability and rollout

• Early Availability: April 2005

• General Availability: 4th July 2005

• Rollout: • Contact Quadstone System Support

• Phased introduction options: data builds first

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Where to find out more

• Quadstone System Support website: http://support.quadstone.com/

• Documentation• What’s new in the Quadstone System 5.1• Updated Quadstone System help • Updated Quadstone System data-build command and TML

reference• New Data Build Manager reference• Customer-specific release notes

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Questions and answers

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After the webinar

• These slides are available via www.quadstone.com/training/webinars/

• Audio and video recordings of this webinar are available via the same site

• Any problems or questions, please contact support@quadstone.com

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Upcoming webinars

See www.quadstone.com/training/webinars/.If there’s a webinar topic you’d like to see, please let us know via

support@quadstone.com.

Getting Started with the Quadstone System

Wednesday July 27, 2005

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Getting Started with the Quadstone System

Thursday July 28, 2005

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Introducing the Data Build Manager (aka qsbuild)

Thursday August 25, 2005

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Introducing the Data Build Manager (aka qsbuild)

Friday August 26, 2005

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