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ABACUS Update: Fresh Dashboard Design & User Interface
20 July 2020
Design visually pleasing dashboards with these user interface improvements:
- The default color scheme for charts in portlets features a visually appealing green to blue scale. The selected portion of the portlet retains its color when a filter is applied.
- Dashboard design, colors in charts and visualizations and shapes in diagrams all continue to be customizable
- The toolbar is colored in blue to distinguish it from the dashboard contents
- A gray dashboard background is distinct from white portlets. Portlets now have rounded edges
- Portlet icons are hidden except when hovering over the portlet, allowing for more space for the portlet title
- Updated shapes and icons are available for diagrams (eg. Server, Network Element, Database, etc.)
- Simplified and refreshed user login page
Performance Improvements
Performance improvement enable diagrams to load significantly faster in ABACUS Enterprise. The improvements are particularly significant for large diagrams and diagrams with many annotations.
Download Targeted Catalogs
Users accessing pre-filtered dashboards or applying global filters can download the catalog to Excel with the filters applied.
Mappable IDs for ServiceNow Database Views
Users can map IDs for ServiceNow Database Views, improving their ability to sync reporting views from ServiceNow.
View Assigned ABACUS Enterprise Editors and Administrators
Accessing a summary of assigned ABACUS Enterprise Editors and Administrators makes it easier to keep track of user allocations. (information is available in both ABACUS Studio and ABACUS Enterprise)
Where to get the latest version?
Visit the community for upgrade instructions and to download the latest version of ABACUS.
ABACUS 7.1.1 is available to all users with a current ABACUS subscription and for users who purchased a license and have a current support and maintenance agreement.
ABACUS is available as either a cloud-based web-app or for on-premise deployment.
ABACUS Updates: Enhanced Filtering, PESTLE Framework for Strategic Analysis
09 May 2020
Filter by Selecting Data in Visualizations
Empower your stakeholders with intuitive hierarchical filtering. Drilling through the model in treemaps, partition maps, and sunburst charts will filter related views.
TODAY Operator
Dynamic date-based filtering is enabled by the “TODAY” operator available in catalog filters. Use the TODAY operator with other operators to find the technologies extending past support dates in 100 days (TODAY+100) or the components modified in the last week (TODAY-7). This filter can be used in ABACUS Studio or ABACUS Enterprise.
Filter by Attachment
Dynamically filter based on modeled relationships. Filtering components by name will filter views of attached components. For example, filtering a (non-aggregated) chart showing capability costs will also filter a Bubble chart and catalog of associated applications, revealing to stakeholders which applications contribute to high-cost capabilities.
Quick Impact Analysis with Drill-Down Diagrams
Impact analysis in ABACUS is now even more accessible; Users can create drill-down diagrams quickly and easily directly from the explorer tree.
Updates to Frameworks & Notations
The PESTLE framework allows teams to identify and monitor external factors that can have an impact on the enterprise. Used in ABACUS, it can be easily incorporated into your existing metamodel to add strategic market analysis of Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Logical, and Environmental factors.
Where to get the latest version?
Visit the community for upgrade instructions and to download the latest version of ABACUS.
ABACUS 7.1 is available to all users with a current ABACUS subscription and for users who purchased a license and have a current support and maintenance agreement.
ABACUS is available as either a cloud-based web-app or for on-premise deployment.
ABACUS Enterprise Update Available: Model Enterprise Relationships with Graph View + More
03 February 2020
Graph Views enable consumers to dynamically understand impacts by drilling into diagram-style views. These views automatically stay up to date with the repository and respond to dashboard filters. Graph views are created by simply selecting a viewpoint and a starting node, making it easy to keep your stakeholders informed with dynamic views.
Interactive Gantt Charts for Enterprise Architecture Roadmaps
Quickly and easily visualize roadmaps and track timelines or key dates for projects, technology, risks, and more. Users can drill into elements on Gantt charts to understand what impacts. Gantt charts automatically stay up to date with the repository and respond to dashboard filters.
Gantt charts are created by selecting elements, relationships, date pairs, and colors in the Gantt Chart visualization wizard, making it easy to provide this insightful view to your stakeholders.
Machine Learning Autocomplete Enhancement
Machine learning intelligence finds patterns in your data and proposes values for text, list, date, and numeric properties and attached components. Confidence scores guide the user when choosing to accept or clear the proposed values.
Additional features in this update:
- Improved Collaboration
- Enterprise Catalog Features and Fixes
- Administrator Updates
- UI/UX Enhancements
Where to get the latest version?
Visit the community for upgrade instructions and to download the latest version of ABACUS.
ABACUS 7 is available to all users with a current ABACUS subscription and for users who purchased a license and have a current support and maintenance agreement.
ABACUS is available as either a cloud-based web-app or for on-premise deployment.
ABACUS Studio Update: Color by Timestamp to Advance Approval Processes
03 February 2020
Catalog columns may be colored based on the timestamp of the last change made to the content of the column. This enables approvers to easily understand what properties and attachments have been recently modified.
Additional features in this update:
- Display Connection Properties in Attachment Columns
- Disable Constraint Validation by Architecture for Simple Metamodel Maturation
- Filtering Consistency
- ServiceNow Database Views
- Compliance Enhancement
Where to get the latest version?
Visit the community for upgrade instructions and to download the latest version of ABACUS.
ABACUS 7 is available to all users with a current ABACUS subscription and for users who purchased a license and have a current support and maintenance agreement.
ABACUS is available as either a cloud-based web-app or for on-premise deployment.
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