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Lavastorm Analytics Engine 5.0 New Feature Overview

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What’s New in LAE 5.0?

Logistics Manager

Error Management Improvements

Tour Guides

Auto-Update Communication

Platform Support Updates

Minor Enhancements

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Lavastorm Analytics Engine 5.0 Overview

LAE 5.0• Tour Guides• Error Management

Improvements

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

LAE 5.0• Logistics management / SOA

deployment• Auto-Update Communication

Improved application management functionality and software distribution facilities enable new deployment models and reduce cost of system maintenance

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Logistics Manager

Replaces existing need for cron + scripting with native graph scheduling and monitoring functionality

All functionality exposed via Web Services APIs, allowing invocation from other application management tools (e.g. Control-M)

Reference UI implementation included with the release provides a Web-based interface for using functionality

0 7 * * 1-5 /server/project/graph/ExtractGraph.sh >> ExtractGraph.log 2>&1.0 9 * * 1-5 /server/project/graph/AnalysisGraph.sh >> AnalysisGraph.log 2>&1.0 13 * * 6 /server/project/graph/PublishGraph.sh >> PublishGraph.log 2>&1.0 2 * * 7 /server/project/graph/CleanupGraph.sh >> CleanupGraph.log 2>&1.

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Error Management Improvements

Error messages more concise and provide more context for root cause and resolution

Error codes are linked to Lavastorm Community Forums, where all users may contribute resolution techniques as different exception scenarios are encountered

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Tour Guides

Step-by-step instructions to guide user through complex node operations, simplifying use

Users can create their own Tour Guides to facilitate reuse of complex nodes across mixed user profiles

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Auto-Update Communication

Replaces manual notification of new release availability with automated notification (and optional installation) of new software as it is released– Especially important with rapid-release LAL program (i.e. new nodes)

Foundation for other planned communication features for future releases– Auto-submission of product usage patterns, to aid in prioritization of new

features

– Streamlined submission of error reports to Lavastorm Support, replacing current manual process

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Platform Support Updates

New client OS support– Microsoft Windows 8

New server OS support– Microsoft Windows Server 2008

– Oracle Solaris 11

Discontinued client OS support– Microsoft Windows Vista

Discontinued server OS support– Oracle Solaris 9

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Minor Enhancements

Tableau as an External Data Viewer (already available as a LAL node)

Workgroup Edition now includes Python node, without the need for the optional Developer Node Pack

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What’s Planned For LAL 3.0?

LAL 3.0 aligned with LAE 5.0 - starting at 5.1, new nodes will only be released via LAL 3.x and will only be compatible with LAE 5.x

Current plan has the following nodes slated for 2014 Q2

LAL roadmap intentionally left very flexible, allowing us to react to market conditions or specific customer requirements in an agile fashion

Interface Analytics Utility

• Output Spotfire• Hadoop (HiveQL)• Archive extract / compress• Send E-Mail+• SharePoint• Output Tableau Ex• …

• TERR + …• Linear regression• k-means clustering• Market basket• Discover data patterns• …

• Calculate work days• Remove null fields• Ranged join• Input / Output local• Substring lookup• …

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LAE 5.0 Benefit Summary

Logistics Manager simplifies deployment and maintenance of automated applications, increments toward cloud enabled platform

Error Management Improvements leverage growing Lavastorm user community to build knowledge base and accelerate time to productive use

Tour Guides enable new class of users to perform complex analyses which they could not themselves construct, accelerate reuse of sophisticated analytical nodes

Auto-Update Installer ensures that new functionality is always in the users’ hands, especially important for frequent LAL release cycle; silent installation simplifies enterprise client administration

Platform Support Updates keep pace with adoption of new hosting environments, especially department-level (i.e. Windows server)