BOARD 8.1 specifically provides enhancements to following areas:
• Scalability: With significant improvements to the session handling and caching, BOARD 8.1 can now handle thousands of concurrent without performance loss.
• Security: Today’s world require high levels of security. BOARD 8.1 delivers robust security through improved user profile management and the creation of customized security rules and alerts.
• Localization: Successful global deployments demand full localization capability. With BOARD 8.1, any part of BOARD that is visible to the end user, whether it being the text on a button, of the application menu can be localized to any language.
• System administration: Monitoring large, international or global BI and CPM applications can become time consuming and complex. With BOARD 8.1, expanded system logging enables system administrators to monitor nearly any type of event and rapidly build dashboard and alerts to pre-empt issues and adhere to corporate compliance rules.
In addition, BOARD 8.1 offers several usability enhancements to its BI and CPM solution that ultimately will increase decision making effectiveness, such at the “Data Spreading Modeller” which improves any type of planning activity by quickly allowing end users to apply and allocate data according to configurable models.
BOARD 8.1 also extends its usage to mobile users with the new BOARD 8 Mobile product line. Designed and developed for a high performance, gesture based usage, BOARD Mobile offers users access to their familiar desktop application and browser based BI & CPM applications on Windows Mobile and iOS based devices. Users can also access their data in off-line mode, thus making it possible to work without connection to a network. BOARD Mobile uses the same programming free toolkit as for the desktop and browser based applications, thus making is possible to deploy nearly any type of screen to a mobile devices in a matter of minutes.
Calendar: a new object in the toolkit for a intuitive selection of days and weeks;
Reverse Rules: writeback rules for a DataEntry of multiple rows with a single input
DataEntry Simulation: a screen property that allows to calculate the rules before committing your DataEntry input;
Split and Splat based on cube: allows to allocate high level DataEntries using another cube as driver;
Unbalanced Hierarchies: this DataView property allows to visualize unbalanced hierarchies;
Dynamic GoToScreen: allows to use a text cube filled with screen names to navigate a capsule;
Capsule Localization: this instrument allows to translate capsules in various languages
Enhanced logs: more actions are tracked inside logs, moreover it's possible to administrator to enable and disable logs with no need of restarting the service;
Block selection: this procedure step allows to inject a selection to a single block in a layout;
Password Management: enabling this server setting, passwords must meet some security requirements in order to be valid;
Concurrency: very enhanced concurrency between different actions such as DataEntry, DataRead, DataFlow;
Mobile: 2 new apps for iPad and Windows8 for mobile application;
Securities: enterprise users have the possibility to enable advanced security modules;
DataView: it's now possible to define column width in pixel inside header options;
DataView: added the possibility to link 2 or more DataViews to the same ScrollBar, using the graphic option Link Dataview;
It's now possible to export rule into a text file and import them back;
When saving the rule an alert will appear in case any error is found inside the rules;
@Selections in block headers will show block references;
Transporter Tool: a new tool that allows to easily migrate changes on your production database from you test or development environment.
Web: Row templates behavior has been aligned to the client one;
Advanced data entry is now possible even if downtotal is not flagged;
Web: Drill down on total with 3 or more entities by row led to wrong drill, this malfunction has been fixed;
DataEntry on grand total with 3 or more entities by row was calculating the wrong values, issue fixed;
"Break" button in task manager is now available only for administrators
Cut and paste on DataViews has been improved;
It's now possible to select a default element for a pager;
Scroll bars could have different behaviors on different machines in some cases, this problem has been resolved.
If a layout refresh in a procedure was failing, the procedure hanged on making impossible to close the client, this problem has been resolved.
Web: Picture algorithms are now available;
Web: Subtotals were shown in flatten DataVews on web client but not on standard client, web has been aligned to client;
Save button in ATO panel was not working if the DataView was not directly inside the container, but inside another container, issue solved;
Web: It was possible to allow DataEntry on read only cubes, issue solved;
Web: an issue regarding cube lock has been fixed;
Removed exclude in security panel filter selection;
In some cases pager were ignored when exporting to excel, problem solved;
Web: Disappearing master layout icon when selecting, this issue has been fixed;
Web: it's now possible to disable drill down on web layouts
Web: It was possible to input grand total line in reverse algorithm via web and not via client, this possibility has been removed from the web client since it was leading to wrong calculations;
DataEntry with locked totals led to rounding issues, issue solved;
In some cases alert by in DataViews was throwing errors, issue fixed;
Web: print as single object was not printing objects inside panels, fixed;
An error occurring when executing Dataflow layout in a breakpoint has been fixed;
In some cases sorting a DataView made totals disappear, this issue has been fixed;
Web: Menus with images did not work correctly on the web, fixed;
Database list update when adding new databases does not need a service restart;
DataEntry on date type ROLAP cube on some SQL databases was not keeping the correct date, this issue has been fixed;
DataFlow on ROLAP cubes with Delete/Insert option from 2 or more MOLAP cubes was not keeping the correct value in some cases, issue fixed;
Improved Clear/Update ROLAP cubes: clear cube is now possible;
Added the possibility to perform if/then/else procedure step on ROLAP cubes;
A malfunction in export to excel in flattening mode from PinBoard has been fixed;
Board Client can now run both in 32 and 64 bit mode;
Web Client does not fully support new features, check this paragraph for further details;