Semarchy xDG 2024.3 release notes

We have improved the visibility, traceability, and browsing of organizational and collaboration elements in this release, adding bidirectional navigation links between assets, initiatives, owners, and glossary terms. We also added navigation links from a badge definition to the assets using that badge, and improved the ingested asset counts in harvester executions. These improvements allow for more transparent and efficient collaboration across the organization.

Semarchy xDG 2024.3 includes additional and updated functions (Now(), HasVariance(), and `Duration()) to the badge and metrics rules language to design time series or variance-based rules. These enhancements give users new options to improve their governance using metrics and badges.

This version introduces enrichers, which are automated processes to modify assets and increase their value. A new siblings detection enricher identifies and groups similar assets (siblings) within an initiative. Detecting and managing siblings is key to maintaining data quality and lineage continuity, in compliance with data governance policies.

Manual identification and management of siblings are also possible through lineage authoring. This function works in conjunction with the sibling detection enricher and tracks both manual and automated siblings, retaining any previous manual decisions. The combination of automated and manual sibling identification ensures flexible yet powerful siblings management.

We are continually working to improve the capacity of Semarchy Data Intelligence to support a large panel of technologies. In this release, we have added harvesters for Teradata and Fivetran, and enhanced existing harvesters with improved support for Microsoft SQL views and Hive Kerberos.

Administrators can now configure identity providers (Microsoft, Google, and OpenID Connect) to handle single sign-on (SSO). Users can be managed using groups to facilitate control of access to the platform’s modules. Groups are synchronized between the platform modules and can be used for specific privileges with the module’s features. User management is also enhanced with new features, for example to deactivate users or invalidate all sessions for a given user.