Semarchy 2024.4 in brief
Semarchy 2024.4 is a Mainstream Support (MS) release, providing powerful new features to our Data Intelligence, Data Integration, and Data Management modules.
Data Integration (xDI) 2024.4 Feature Highlights
Stronger Data Intelligence Synergy
Avro, BigQuery & Salesforce Updates
Improved Connector Support & Security
Data Intelligence 2024.4 Feature Highlights
Automated AI Asset Organization
Introducing Full-Featured Audit Trails
Better Access & Ownership Control
Improved Asset Discoverability
More details on these features are available in our documentation.
Semarchy 2024.4 in detail
Semarchy Data Integration (xDI)
Semarchy xDI’s latest release focuses on improving performance and security with numerous third-party connector libraries and operability with our Data Intelligence module. These updates are designed to provide you with peace of mind for your critical data pipelines while ensuring a more seamless experience across our Data Platform.
Stronger Data Intelligence Synergy
Improving auditability and harvesting capabilities while expanding technology support is core to our continued efforts to refine synergies between our modules. This upgrade ensures more comprehensive and seamless data governance across your entire technology ecosystem, enabling better control and insights into your data landscape.
Avro Connector Update
The Avro connector now fully supports custom attributes in the metadata “type” property. This enhancement allows for complete recognition and preservation of Avro JSON schemas with custom-type attributes during reverse-engineering processes. Users can seamlessly handle more diverse and customized Avro schemas, significantly streamlining data integration workflows and minimizing the need for manual interventions.
BigQuery Connector Update
We added multiple improvements to the Google BigQuery connector. You can now define partitions when creating tables and loading positional files to BigQuery is faster and more efficient. Data integration flows also support Slowly-Changing Dimensions (SCD), which improves the tracking and preservation of historical data and facilitates historical analysis, data integrity, and informed decision-making.
Salesforce Connector Update
The Salesforce connector now retrieves deleted Salesforce objects when loading data to other databases. Your Salesforce integrations will have more comprehensive data synchronization, allowing for better data recovery while maintaining a complete historical record of your critical customer data.
You can read the release notes or download xDI 2024.4formats.
Semarchy Data Management (xDM)
Semarchy xDM’s latest release introduces Validations on Workflow Transitions and a Call Procedure Automation for data-driven workflows while improving Named Queries performance for single record expressions. Big news, Snowflake support for data locations is available for preview to our customers. These updates increase efficiency and control of your workflows while providing a sneak peak of the second major technology collaboration between the AI Data Cloud and MDM leader.
Named Queries Optimization
We’ve optimized the performance of named queries containing single record expressions. These expressions now execute within the same SQL query as the root entity, eliminating the need for separate queries. This enhancement delivers significantly faster response times for named queries, improving overall data retrieval efficiency.
Validations on Workflow Transitions
Workflow designers can now define custom validation rules for each transition, with the flexibility to specify whether these checks should block the transition, provide warnings, or be skipped entirely. During workflow execution, users are presented with a clear dialog displaying validation results, offering immediate feedback on any failed checks and the option to proceed or cancel the transition. This update significantly improves data integrity and user control throughout the workflow process, ensuring that each step meets predefined quality standards efficiently.
For customers currently using legacy workflows, this feature serves as a crucial stepping stone in the migration to data-driven workflows. The new validation system seamlessly integrates with existing stepper validations, providing a familiar experience while offering enhanced capabilities. If no active validations are set for a transition, the system defaults to using on-finish stepper validations, ensuring backwards compatibility. However, when validations are declared for a transition, they take precedence, allowing for more granular control. This approach not only eases the transition for users but also opens up new possibilities for optimizing data management workflows.
New Call Procedure Workflow Automation
Seamlessly integrate custom database logic into your data management processes with the new automation feature by invoking predefined database procedures at any point during a workflow’s execution. The best part? You can enhance your existing workflows and add more complete, tailored data operations without leaving the builder.
For customers using legacy workflows, the Call Procedure automation significantly bridges the functionality gap between the two experiences. While legacy workflows allowed database procedure calls at specific points, the new feature enables calls at any workflow stage, offering greater flexibility. This enhancement not only eases the transition for users familiar with legacy experience but also introduces capabilities that go beyond previous limitations. It represents our ongoing commitment to providing a smooth migration path while continually improving our data-driven workflow functionality.
Snowflake Data Location Support (Preview)
Now, the moment Snowflake and Semarchy customers have been waiting for: xDM data hubs can now be hosted and processed in your favorite AI Data Cloud!
This new collaborative solution means your most critical data assets will have unparalleled performance, interoperability, security and value from recognized leaders. Leverage your existing Snowflake investment while experiencing a faster but familiar way to easily generate no-code apps and manage trusted data with xDM.
Note: this feature is currently in preview and not recommended for production environments. Please contact us if you want to evaluate this capability.
Snowflake is a critical long-term technology partner for Semarchy. xDI is already a Snowflake Ready Technology partner and will not be the last. We’re committed to accelerating your data’s time-to-value in the cloud with Snowflake and augmented by our Data Platform.
Stay tuned for more announcements over the next few months as we continue to invest in making this collaborative solution ready for production and generally available in 2025.
You can read the release notes or download xDM 2024.4.
Semarchy Data Intelligence (xDG)
Semarchy xDG’s latest quarterly enhancements roundup introduces automated AI asset classification for improved organization and efficiency, plus new comprehensive asset auditing and monitoring features. We’ve enhanced domain access management with refined rights and roles, and improved asset discoverability through advanced search and filtering capabilities. These updates are aimed at improving the creation, governance, and accessibility of your organization’s critical data products.
Automated AI Asset Organization
Our new AI-assisted enricher automates asset classification tasks, providing consistent organization and improved data quality by reducing potential human error. It enhances compliance through systematic tagging and access control while streamlining asset retrieval and reporting for better oversight and auditing. Collaboratively building and governing your enterprise data catalog will be faster and easier than ever.
Introducing Full-Featured Audit Trails
This new and important feature lays the foundation for future metadata enrichment capabilities, including information exchange and acceptance workflows to govern data. Tracking and displaying activities performed on assets by users, harvesters, and enrichers are the initial building blocks toward fully-featured capabilities. Audit trails increase visibility and control, paving the way for more informed and effective data management practices in the organization.
Better Access & Ownership Control
We’ve enhanced the stakeholder onboarding process with more refined rights and role management, offering greater flexibility and precision. This update introduces dedicated ownership types, allowing for precise control over user access and permissions. These updates streamline onboarding, access, and security to your organization’s data assets.
Improved Asset Discoverability
Finally, finding the data assets you need now feels like a breeze with improved search, filtering, and navigation capabilities. The upgraded faceted search interface allows users to narrow down resources more precisely, while the new, comprehensive navigation pane makes exploring assets fast and easy. Streamlining the self-service, data catalog experience is critical to driving adoption and ensures more time is spent leveraging data rather than finding it.
Looking ahead, our team is constantly working on new features and improvements with plans to include more enrichers, audit trails, and performance improvements very soon.
You can read the release notes or experience xDG 2024.4
About Semarchy’s Data Platform
Semarchy, a leader in the master data management and data integration market, enables organizations to rapidly generate business value from their data in as little as 12 weeks. Its data platform enables organizations of any size to discover, integrate, enrich, manage, govern, and report critical information scattered across siloed systems.
Semarchy is available on-prem and natively deployable on popular cloud marketplaces such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or software-as-a-service (SaaS).
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