On behalf of the product team at Semarchy, I am thrilled to share with you the release of xDM version 5.3!Â
As the information landscapes become more complex and hybrid, we need to keep our user experience efficient and simple.
With this in mind, we've added new capabilities to the Semarchy xDM platform to help you in your Intelligent Data Hub journey, simplifying deployment, administration, and integration in the Cloud as well as on-premises.
Feature highlights
Integrated Authentication
Semarchy xDM version 5.3 brings considerable improvements for authenticating and managing users:
- Users and Roles can now be managed into Semarchy xDM, reducing the dependency to the application server and facilitating user administration tasks. These tasks can be performed using the Semarchy xDM Configuration user interface of the administration REST API.
- Built-in Identity Management supports all identity providers and protocols (for example, Microsoft Active Directory, Azure AD, Google, OKTA or Auth0, using OpenID Connect, SAML, LDAP, etc.), facilitating the implementation of Single Sign-On (SSO).
Integrated Datasources
Administrators can now configure in Semarchy xDM the Datasources to connect the databases storing the data hubs, as well as xDM Dashboard and xDM Discovery data.
Secret Management
Secret Management allows administrators to secure the Semarchy xDM platform’s sensitive configuration items such as credentials, API keys, or passwords.
- Secrets may be stored in the repository, encrypted with a choice of methods, using a local key or third-party Key Management Services such as AWS Key Manager Service, Azure Key Vault or Google Cloud Key Management.
- Semarchy xDM can also use secrets stored in third-party Secrets Managers such as AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, or Google Cloud Secret Manager.
Data Notifications
Data Notifications enable designers to easily automate data and change propagation from the data hub to consuming applications.
Data Notifications are delivered - on schedule or data change - to event streaming platforms (such as Apache Kafka) or applications via REST API calls and message services. Their payload is fully customizable, using Semarchy xDM’s named queries, and can contain any data change performed in the hub on golden data, master data, history, etc.
Database Views
Database Views allow designers to design logical views in the model and deploy them in the data hub schema as views, where they can be consumed by external applications or xDM Dashboard charts and dashboards.
Other changes
- New REST API Mass Update action: Update multiple records in a single call.
- Delayed continuous loads: Prevent job contention in the event of long-running certification job instances.
- Enhanced authoring experience: New Markdown form field supports rich text editing, compact Mode is now available in Steppers.
- Enhanced design experience: The properties view of the Collection Columns and Form Fields have been reorganized in the Application Builder and now support multi-selection.
- xDM Dashboard charts now support Drilldown Data Export.
- New Dashboard Designer Privilege.
- … and many others!
The detailed release notes are available on the Semarchy website.
You can download xDM 5.3 from the Semarchy website or run it in the Cloud.