October 19, 2023
We are excited to announce the release of B2Win Suite Version 5.2. This update is packed with new features, enhancements and optimizations that will empower you to streamline your data processes and maximize productivity. Here’s a detailed overview of what’s new:
Infor M3 Data Dictionary support:
B2Win Suite now provides seamless integration with Infor M3 data dictionaries, enhancing your work with data across multiple ERP systems.
Support for large files and large volumes of data using Apache Parquet:
After rigorous testing since October 2022, B2Win Suite officially supports the Parquet format, which enables B2Win Suite to support large files and large volumes of data, ensuring scalability to accommodate growing data needs, faster data analysis and significant savings by optimizing storage and processing resources.
About Parquet: The Parquet format allows fast queries fetching specific column values without reading the full row of data. Parquet has many benefits, such as storing and analyzing large volumes of data, highly efficient column-wise compression, nested data structures support, schema evolution support, high compatibility with OLAP, and various data processing frameworks.
Multithreading support:
B2Win Suite now provides multithreading support for managing large volumes of data, large files, and API calls. This enhancement significantly reduces load, processing, writing, and delivery times.
Support for new databases:
- Snowflake
- Databricks
“B2Win Suite Backup” now includes B2Data:
We’re pleased to announce the inclusion of B2Data in B2Win Suite’s Backup Management to provide more data protection, simplify administration, and accelerate disaster recovery.
Bug fixes, usability and performance improvements
Ongoing B2Output modules upgrade:
As part of our commitment to delivering the best user experience and maintaining up-to-date technology, several critical modules within B2Win Suite have been upgraded from Angular 1.x to the latest Angular version. This upgrade brings improved performance and enhanced security.
List of modules upgraded in this release:
- Business Partners
- Email Group
- Contacts
- Address Books
- Logos
- Backgrounds
- Messages Template
Bug fixes, usability and performance improvements
Multithreading and large file support have been added to the following nodes:
- Visual Query
- Joiner
- DataPrep
- DB Push
- Query In-Memory
- CSV Reader
VisualQuery (Data Source) and DBPush (Data Delivery) now support the following new databases:
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- SAP Hanna
Properties management has been added with improved performance:
Properties went through a significant architecture and usability change. Properties can now be managed from a centralized place, making working with tens or even hundreds of properties easier and without losing track.
New “CSV Writer” node:
A new CSV Writer node has been added under the Data Delivery category.
New “Windows Shared File Reader” node:
A new Windows Shared File Reader -Server” node has been added under Data Delivery category (Experimental), which allows you to read files from a shared (windows) network path.
New “Windows Shared File Copy” node:
A new Windows Shared File Copy node has been added under Data Delivery category (Experimental). It allows you to copy files to a shared (windows) network path.
New “Parquet File Reader”’ node:
A new Parquet Reader node has been added under Data Source category (Experimental). It allows you to read the advanced .parquet file format.
New “Order By” node:
A new Order By node has been added under Transformation category. It allows you to easily apply an SQL “Order by” to any node with dataframe output using drag and drop.
Optimized Storage Usage:
We optimized the storage by using compression and by reducing the usage with automatic cleaning of historical data based on user automatically with our new auto-cleanup feature in Configurations.
Introducing Labels:
Now, you can easily tag or label workflows, making it easy to organize and filter them in development and production.
Holistic view for Messages:
All system messages, e.g., information, warnings or errors, are now collected under one Messages tab. Clicking messages elsewhere now takes you back to the centralized view for easier tracing.
We understand the importance of minimizing disruptions during this transition, and our development and quality assurance teams have worked diligently to ensure a smooth and seamless upgrade process. While we have thoroughly tested these upgraded modules, if you encounter any unexpected issues or have questions about the changes, please don’t hesitate to contact our support team at support@nazdaq-it.com. Your feedback is invaluable as we continually strive to improve the B2Win Suite.
