Fall 2018 Release Includes Git Integration to Enhance Data Management Workflows

Periscope Data, the world’s leading analytics platform for data professionals, introduced the fall 2018 release of its analytics platform, including an expanded integration with Git to help analysts better manage their data models and code and a new user management API.

Periscope Data’s Git Integration will provide data professionals with complete control over their analytics environment, offering a sophisticated version control system, release management workflows and file-level access to user-generated content that can be synced, edited, created and deleted through Git. The new User Management API is a standard RESTful API for Create, Read, Update, and Deprovision operations, making it easy to automate provisioning and permissions for your users. User Management API is the first in a series of updates set to be released in 2018 focused on enhancing and extending role-based access control (RBAC) functionality.

“Data teams are expanding and becoming more mature in businesses of all sizes,” said Harry Glaser, CEO and Co-Founder of Periscope Data. “With our latest release, we’ve developed a number of features aimed at helping these data professionals more easily navigate the complexities of making data insights accessible to an entire, data-driven business. With our new Git integration and other innovations, we’re providing the flexibility to ensure their workflow never slows down.”

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In the latest version of Periscope Data, customers looking to further develop their dashboards and data models will have far more options for external development of Periscope Data content.

The Git integration, expanded from its previously limited release, allows data professionals to sync all user-generated content, including dashboards, charts, snippets, views, filters, and alerts. This will work with any Git repository, including GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket or your own internal Git server – which means that no matter how your team creates, reviews and deploys code, Periscope Data’s Git integration can supercharge your analytics workflow.

“With so many people contributing to our dashboards, we need version control, so if there are any discrepancies in the data, we’ll know exactly when they happened, and who changed the models,” said John Doran, Director of Engineering at Phorest. “Periscope Data’s Git integration will enable us to peer review our queries and have transparency on the whole process – that’s really important for us.”

With the Git integration, users will have a sophisticated, externalized version control system with code review to let them experiment and iterate to answer tough questions. Working with Git directly in Periscope Data enables them to easily review and audit changes made by team members, rolling back changes as needed with just a few clicks. With file level access to user-generated content, the integration also provides for batch processing of data such as automated content creation, search and replace across multiple files, and cross-space cloning.

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Finally, the integration will enable reliable release management that gives organizations a stable, high-quality single source of truth for data analytics. Users can make and preview changes on a branch before pushing them to the production environment, review code before merging it into the main branch through a pull request, and work on multiple files simultaneously before merging changes into a common version.

In addition to the new Git integration, the latest release of Periscope Data includes:

• Auto Archive. Keep your Periscope sites clean, accurate and easy to navigate by letting Periscope Data automatically archive your unused dashboards, views, datasets and CSVs that haven’t been used in the past week or month.
• Quality Check SQL Alerts. Tie SQL alerts to dashboards to ensure that data is fresh before an emailed report is sent out.
• Enhanced AutoSuggest in SQL Editor. Analysts will now see better results suggested for common SQL functions, including arguments, documentation snippets and usage examples.
• Refresh API for Embedding Dashboards. Allow external users to refresh data from their embedded dashboards or charts with the click of a button, or have embedded dashboards automatically fresh on a set schedule.

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With more than 1,000 companies using the platform for 20+ hours each week, Periscope Data has become the No. 1 BI platform for data analysts everywhere. The company was recently recognized by the SaaS Awards as the “Best SaaS Product for Business Intelligence or Analytics” for 2018. Periscope Data has become a trusted single source of truth for data professionals and their teams – enabling both complex analysis with SQL, Python and R together on one platform, and intuitive data access for business users with Data Discovery for Business.

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