LAE 4.6 New Feature Overview
What’s new in LAE 4.6?
 New product offerings
 External viewer integration
 Drag-and-drop file acquisition
 Help system enhancements
 Node Editor enhancements
 Excel node enhancements
 Extended environment support
 License administration enhancements
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Lavastorm Analytics Engine 4.6 Overview
Ease of Use
&
Visualization
Big Data
Analytics
Continued focus on
improving user
experience and enabling
customers to be
productive and selfsufficient
Lavastorm
Analytic
Platform
Portable
Computing
Replace monolithic
products with tiered
functionality and
pricing to lower
adoption barriers
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LAE 4.6
• New product SKUs
• License administration
enhancements
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LAE 4.6
External viewer integration (QlikView, Excel CSV)
Extended help improvements
User interface enhancements
Excel node improvements
Cloud
Computing &
Virtualization
LAE 4.6
• Virtual Machine
Support
Interoperability
Marketplace
Model
QlikView and Excel data
viewer integration
allows a powerful
combination of LAE
analytics with desktop
visualization tools
Automation of license
activation, plus
simplification of server
connection license
administration
Begin providing
support for popular,
IT-friendly VM
deployment scheme
New product offerings
Desktop Editions
LAE Public Edition
• 100,000 record limit
• Limited Core Library
• No database
access
• No Advanced
Analytics
• Forum Support Only
LAE Professional
Edition
• 1m record limit
• Extended Core
Library
• DBMS Access
• Advanced
Analytics
• Extended Support
• Forum & Email
Server Editions
LAE Professional
Plus Edition
• 10m record limit
• Extended Core
Library
• DBMS Access
• Advanced
Analytics
• Development
interfaces
• Advanced
Collaboration
• Extended Support
• Forum & Email
LAE Workgroup
Edition
• Medium-Scale Needs
• 6 concurrent users
• Single 4-core machine
limit
• Standalone server
• Full Automation
LAE Enterprise
Edition
• Large-Scale Needs
• Variable concurrency
• 4-core “base” + N-core
cluster
• Farming / Cluster
enabled
• Full Automation
Scale at the pace of your data & analytic needs
 Lavastorm expands product offerings to provide a more gradual price/performance
curve from free to enterprise level
 New feature licensing model necessary to release new SKUs without simply
discounting existing offerings
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 License scheme enables new distribution mechanisms such as node pack or singlenode releases
External viewer integration
 Default data viewer can be supplemented with QlikView or MS
Excel, allowing users to view node output data in their chosen
tool.
 Future releases may provide integration with additional tools,
including user-defined ones
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Drag-and-drop file acquisition
 Files may now be dragged from Windows Explorer directly onto
the BRE canvas
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File Extension
Node Created
Notes
*.brd
BRD File
Configured to read the input file
*.csv
CSV File
Configured to read the input file
*.xls, *.xlsx
Excel File
Configured to read the input file
*.txt
Delimited File
Configured to read the input file, using a single “Data”
column for the header. If a field delimiter is specified, this
“Data” value should be cleared from the optional
FieldNames parameter in order to properly parse the data.
*.sql
DB Query
Configures SqlQuery parameter with the source SQL script
*.brn
<Node>
Adds the node to the current graph, as in previous versions
<Directory>
Directory List
Configured to read the input directory, with file pattern
“*.*”
Help system enhancements
 Unification
– All help topics now use the same top-level menu for accessing each of the major
help components (e.g. BRE, BRAINscript).
 Multimedia tutorials
– New tutorials for several activities have been added. These tutorials include tech
notes, graphs, data, and video content.
 HTML rendering improvements
– Help uses a new style sheet which makes help easier to read and to navigate.
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Node Editor enhancements
 Node parameter groups now have logical names (e.g. “General”,
“Optional”, not just “Parameters 1”, “Parameters 2”) which may
be user-configured
 Node parameters now provide visual cues when they are not
satisfied by valid input values
 Node execution status is displayed in main window
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Excel node enhancements
 Excel File (acquisition) node now supports large XLSX inputs
without memory issues, and Output Excel (publishing) node can
now output to XLSX format in addition to XLS
 Excel Output node can update existing sheets, allowing users to
configure complex pivots, charts, or other views and have them
refreshed by new LAE output data sets
 New Append Excel node can add new data to an existing sheet,
add new sheets to an existing workbook
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Extended environment support
 VMWare/Linux deployment configuration is now officially
supported
 Red Hat Linux 6 is now a supported operating system
 Java 1.7 is supported for Linux/Solaris server installations
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License administration enhancements
 Server connection license allocation has been simplified. Server
administrators may allocate seats simply by moving users into
licensed groups, removing the need for individual users to obtain
and activate their own licenses.
 License activation has been automated, removing the need for
users to visit the License Activation Center website and download
license files when they wish to install/renew software.
 The server software now verifies that the core count on the
hosting machine matches the L-CPU allocation in the license.
Customers can now be certain that their deployments comply
with their contracted computing capacity. Virtualization may be
used to apportion the appropriate capacity from host machines.
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Thank you
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