Change Management
OvalEdge Release7.2 introduces major upgrades across the OvalEdge platform, emphasizing usability, governance, and security.
Login & Home
Home: Customizable My Desk views, flexible widgets, and better Data Story controls.
Browser Extension: Basic Authentication removed for SaaS; token-based authentication added.
My Resources: Support for SMTP, AWS SES, and Azure Graph API; finer change detection thresholds.
Global Search: Synonym configuration restored; clear guidance on date filters.
Metadata Governance
Data Catalog: Smarter profiling, easier lineage search, Parent Report visibility, longer descriptions, standard date formats, and consistent user displays.
Virtual Objects: Bulk create, edit, or delete using templates.
Business Glossary: Improved role scoring, full hierarchy view, role updates for all terms, and cleanup of invalid references.
Tags: Stronger governance with Master Tags, security modes, and simpler tag creation.
Governance Catalog: More accurate AI recommendations and clearer certification messages.
Governed Data Query (GDQ): Notifications on completion, role-based permissions, support for more roles, more conditions, and easier results filtering.
User’s List: Better navigation from Users & Roles to user desks.
Data Quality: Metadata fields (value, criticality, message, action) can be set independently.
Query Sheet: Shows only the latest query with a clear reset option.
Jobs: Clearer job actions; unused options removed.
Collaboration
Data Stories: Content for Story Zones, multilingual support, richer formatting, and stable display.
Service Desk: Draft editing for templates, longer descriptions, image and rich text support, request tracking, better workflows, and Snowflake masking updates.
Question Wall: Default assignee is now configurable.
Advanced Tools
Impact Analysis is limited to proper roles.
API group support in Lineage Maintenance.
Schema crawl scheduling via API.
Simplified schema comparison with history and multiple runs.
Safer LMDF uploads and controlled downloads.
Connectors
Metadata enrichment and regex profiling fixes.
New authentication options (Azure Entra, Managed Identity, AWS role-based).
Accurate licensing and Snowflake job stability.
SharePoint and MySQL enhancements.
Bridge Client system monitoring and proxy support.
Administration
Azure Synapse access reporting.
Encrypted RDAM sync with Azure SQL.
Improved SSO role handling.
Updated labels and viewer access defaults.
Better custom fields and system settings.
Session timeout and login control improvements.
Audit Trails with a new “Others” tab for all audit events.
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