Besides increased performance, what’s new in Palo 3.1?

Palo suite 3.1

We are proud about yesterday’s release of the new version Palo 3.1 , which brought a strong progression in performance. Users already called it “a much much (!) increase in speed” and “a dramatic increase in speed.”  The release included Palo for Excel 3.1 (including Palo OLAP 3.1), Palo Suite 3.1.(including Palo OLAP 3.1 , Palo ETL 3.1 and  Palo Web 3.1). Also part of the release was the first ramp up of Palo OLAP GPU. I have already written periodically about the incredible gain in speed by using GPU in Business Intelligence, so today I would like to focus on Palo 3.1 and pick a few highlights from the more than 50 new features Palo 3.1 is offering:

• New Styles for Palo for Excel. We refreshed the look and feel of the Paste View Style sheet. Take your style (The new styles are also available at the MyPalo community)
• Palo Spreadsheet Auto-save and recovery. Like in Microsoft Office changed reports will be saved automatically and can be recovered from a previous saved version, e.g. if a connection to a Palo Spreadsheet gets lost during editing.
• Enhanced User Management of Palo Web. New roles can be defined and used to setup security for Palo Web components and reports. For example: IT is supposed only to monitor and maintain the Palo ETL processes, so just assign the Palo ETL manager access to a group defined as IT, and all other Palo Web components will not be visible to them.
• MyPalo Community integration. Palo Web and Palo for Excel are now able to store your MyPalo Community account. By this, while working in Palo, you can access advanced information through our MyPalo website.

There loads of other features to make working with Palo more comfortable – Palo fully supports now Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, contains a new homepage button to get back to homepage with on click , offers extended chart configuration for Meter charts, or German and French interfaces for Palo Pivot, or automatic calendar generation for time dimensions, etc.

All new features are listed in the “What’s new in Palo 3.1” – guide, which is available under http://www.jedox.com/en/community/mypalo/my-palo-installation-first-steps.html.