We are continually developing new features and functions for the Panopticon EX enterprise application suite. This is a summary of important changes to the product.

Features added in Version 5.9.3

• New Action Data Entry support
• New Data Connector for ODATA
• New Data connector for kx kdb+tick
• New Weighted and Standard Harmonic Mean Aggregation types
• Enhanced Server performance under load
• Ability to re-layout Treemap when Snapshot time changes
• Enhanced automatic color range calculation
• Ability to persistently display the Snapshot time on the time window filter
• Additional standard numeric display format of '#,##0.0000'
• Web portal integration & embedding has been enhanced to support parameter value arrays
• Java applet now expects URL encoded parameters for portal integration
• Table column widths are now persisted with streaming data
• Access denied message has also been applied to the non-protected Java client
• Improved error checking around breakdown, default color enabling and table color restoration
• Improved error checking around missing streaming data sources.

 Features added in Version 5.9.2

• Action Text Box control allowing free-text entry of action parameter values
• Enhanced layout features of the Text Box
• Database connector option to insert parameter values with or without quotes
• Data connector for Sybase ESP (separate distribution)

Features added in Version 5.9.1

• Multiple values selection mode on the Action Dropdown control
• Ability to sort items in a visualization based on values in any column

Features added in Version 5.9

• Streaming time series time windowing
• Added fixed numeric axis
• Data connector maximum row limits
• Improved filtering (new single selection filter, plus "Select All" option)
• New Thomson Reuters Velocity Analytics data connector
• New OneMarketData OneTick data connector
• New Text File/URL data connector
• New XML File/URL data connector
• Updated Streambase data connector
• Updated Kx Kdb+ data connector
• Action execution on focus time and snapshot time

Features added in Version 5.8

• New Table visualization
• New Kx Kdb+ data connector
• New Streambase streaming data connector
• New aggregation method (Peer Rank & Child Percentile)
• New time window calculations
• New time period calculations
• New categorical filter types
• Improved Query on Demand performance

Features added in Version 5.7

• New Shapes (Choropleth / SVG Path) visualization
• New Spread Graph visualization
• New Numeric Needle Graph visualization
• Improved Stack Graph
• Improved Line Graph
• Line Graph reference lines on other time series visualizations
• New Sybase CEP/Coral 8 streaming data connector
• New Apache ActiveMQ streaming data connector
• New Apache QPID streaming data connector
• Improved data model performance
• Streaming time series visualizations
• Ranking
• New Data Join Types
• Unpivoting data
• Reporting

Features added in Version 5.6

• New streaming connector to the Sybase Aleri CEP Engine
• Support for non-additive data sets, supports retrieval of externally sourced aggregate values
• Data on Demand, dynamically passing aggregation tasks to external relational database
• SQL syntax selection
• New Candlestick visualization
• New OHLC visualization
• Rubber Band selection
• Rubber Band zoom
• Numeric binning
• Selection of snapshot time through context menu
• Business time axis for displaying intraday data
• Morph a visualization into another when designing workbooks
• Enhanced layout options for Treemaps
• Dynamic color assignment
• Parallel data loading
• Visualization shelf in Java applet web client now wraps in the same way as the EX Designer
• Ability to export all rows of a data set
• Ability to automatically pause streams after an alert has occurred
• Ability to disable animated selection to minimize CPU utilization
• Date difference calculations
• Support for compound keys with time series data sets
• New support for applying mixed sign data sets to a size based visualization such as a Treemap
• New examples for Long/Short Positions, Financial Time Series, and Non Additive Data Sets
• Visualization axis labeling
• Snapshot visibility in time series visualizations

Features added in Version 5.4

• New streaming connector to the Progress SonicMQ message bus
• Cross tabbing
• New Numeric Line Graph visualization
• New Surface Plot visualization
• New Needle Graph visualization
• Improved Heat Matrix, including labeling
• Display dashboard images on the server for devices without Java like iPhones
• Select Numeric field formats from pick lists
• New Date/Time Filter (for example, for Maturity Dates)
• Ability to export data from a Table Legend
• Ability to execute an Action from a Table Legend
• Ability to execute an Action from a Text Box
• Ability to execute an Action from a List/Combo Box
• Allow display and editing of database connection string
• Data Union between data sources
• Filter reset
• EX Designer User Interface layout improvements
• Improved menus within the EX Designer
• Improved streaming performance

Features added in Version 5.3

• Stream data from MS Excel, including Pause/Play
• Modify retrieved data type (for example, from Text to Numeric)
• Select Table/fields from database rather than having to enter SQL
• Time series calculations
• Time window calculations including Start Window, Snapshot and End Window
• Time period clculations based on the previous N samples
• Manual refresh button in addition to automatic scheduled refresh
• Ability to filter database parameters in memory rather than in the SQL WHERE clauses
• New Dot Plot visualization (horizontal & vertical)
• New Pie Chart visualization (single or multi-level)
• New Heat Matrix visualization
• Text entry box (including wildcard "*" support).
• Play/Pause through time samples within the Time Filter
• Export whole Dashboard image
• Set Workbook fonts including visualization title fonts and alignment
• Cut/Copy/Paste of elements within a workbook.
• Create categorical date parts from date fields
• New aggregation types, including Percent of Total, Slope, Intercept, Standard deviation
• Scatter Plot line of best fit
• Ability to execute an action from a button
• Maximize visualization option
• Custom visualization help text can be entered
• Categorical colors can be recalculated and easily extended
• Dashboard parts can no longer be moved off the canvas
• Dynamically changed visible depth as you drill
• Central field format definition in the data table
• Links to open Error Log, and open web server
• Easier License replacement
• Remembering sorting on Table Columns
• Custom Caption for alerts pop-up

Features added in Version 5.2

• New Bullet Graph visualization
• New Bar Graph visualizations (Horizontal/Vertical, Standard, Grouped & Stacked modes)
• Add backgrounds to Scatter Plots (for example, add map images)
• Sorting on Breakdown item across all visualizations
• Alerting in both the EX Designer and the web delivered applet
• Parameterized Text Boxes & Visualization Titles
• Text Box now supports multiple lines and text formatting
• Axis Settings (Grid Lines, and so on)
• Applet performance improvements
• Applet memory handling improvements
• New Call Outs on time series visualizations
• New monochrome color scheme (for use in Bullet Graph)
• New diverging color schemes with gray center
• Visible Depth can be saved into the workbook
• Addition of Max & Min aggregation types
• New time series interpolation options
• Time series text value support for details, call-outs and actions
• Actions can supply parameters one at a time
• New alpha shading option for Line Graph
• Table user interface polish, including setting column width and removing border
• Ability to clear server cache
• Improved error checking in relation to changing data source characteristics post workbook creation

Features added in Version 5.1

• Reworking of Design & Presentation Modes
• "Work Locally" preference is now stored
• Display of locally stored workbooks and examples
• Improved applet memory management - applet data loading is now unique to each Workbook tab
• The Detail Pop-up now floats above the visualizations
• Visible Depth can now be synchronized between visualizations
• The installers now demand the prerequisite of .NET Framework v3.5 SP1
• Successful EX Server publication is now confirmed
• Addition of Workbook/Data Table "Close" icon to top right of display
• Table now remembers the selected sort order during data refresh
• Default HTML pages hosting the java applet have been streamlined
• Improved grid placement and Drag & Drop
• Empty visualizations dropped on the Dashboard canvas are now more easily identified
• Data Table in use is now displayed when selecting a predefined visualization
• Opening a new Data Table now starts the data connection process
• Added ability to modify the location of Excel files used in data connections
• Added the ability to overwrite published Workbooks
• Added ability for the Java applet to accept outside parameters entered into the parent HTML page applet tags
• Added ability to use the authenticated user ID as an input parameter

Share