- Enhanced Self-Service Data Preparation (aka Web Data Provisioning for Business Users)
- Make it easier for line-of-business users to access and model the external data they need
- Provide connectivity to mainstream relational databases
- Enable the creation of Data Objects exposing parameters and custom drill up/down hierarchies
- Richer and Better Visualizations
- Provide new visualization types such as Word Cloud
- Improve visualizations’ responsiveness and expressiveness
- Future-Proof Analytics Platform
- Upgrade iHub to 100% 64-bit architecture
- Certify iHub’s interoperability with Amazon’s 64-bit Elastic File System
- Lay the foundation for major new iHub features planned for post-16.4:
▪ Support Big Data volumes by offloading the processing to Apache Spark
▪ Extend iHub with full-fledged ETL capabilities