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.


Copyright © 2025, OvalEdge LLC, Peachtree Corners, GA, USA.

Last updated

Was this helpful?