Welcome to Quantexa 2.4 | 2.4.0 Release Announcement
We are pleased to announce the release of Quantexa 2.4, your fourth major update to Quantexa 2. Highlights In this release, you will find: Simplified deployment of best-in-class Entity Resolution with ER Accelerate; Powerful new features including Entity Explorer and Entity Quality Score; More matching tools and improvements to Attributes in our Entity Store. ER Accelerate now available in the Early Access Program (EAP) Combine the components of our existing Entity Resolution capability in a much simpler package to deploy, configure, and use. ER Accelerate will also provide a faster, more user-friendly way to ingest data into the platform and create Entities. The low-code and UI-driven approach, including a new interface for Data Fusion, reduces the time and skillsets needed to resolve Entities, and Entity Explorer brings aggregations to help understand the quality of those Entities. Currently ER Accelerate is only available through the Early Access Program (EAP). During this phase Quantexa will work closely with participating customers to gather feedback on its features and capabilities. To register interest in participating in the program, please reach out to your account team or submit the 'Register Your Interest in the EAP' form on the ER Accelerate site. Entity Quality Scoring (EQS) and Managed Source Documents Entity Quality Scoring (EQS) is the mechanism by which Entities are assessed to help understand their quality. This initial release introduces a machine learning model to assign Entities a score based on how likely it is that they are overlinked, which is an important indicator of Entity health. Managed Source Documents support Entity Management use cases where Data Stewards are looking to force an Entity Merge, Split, or Attribute Override. This is typically part of a workflow to correct the underlying data within a source system. User Interface for User Management A new User Management interface is now available that enables a System Administrator user to list all users, their level of access, and view/edit role assignment. Other highlights Assess Template Generation, a plugin that enables you to generate Assess code, previously known as Assess Accelerate, has new capabilities, including generation for multi-hit Network Scores, the ability to define more types of pipelines, and adding a new Step for ingesting Scores written outside of Assess, such as QPython. Spark 3.3 is now supported across the platform. For more information, see the official Spark Release 3.3.0 documentation. You will find the full set of Release Notes on the Quantexa Documentation site. You can also find out more about project documentation to support you in upgrading Quantexa. If you are unable to access them, you will need to get a user with access to submit a Documentation site access request through the Quantexa Support Portal.
ER Accelerate – a low-code and UI-driven approach to Quantexa’s Entity resolution
Following Jamie Hutton’s (CTO, Quantexa) announcement at Quancon last Tuesday, we are excited to spill the beans on ER Accelerate and Quantexa’s journey to simplification so far. Here is a quick Q&A with @Jamie Q: What is ER Accelerate all about? A: Simply put, ER Accelerate is all about enabling our customers to unlock the power of our best-in-class Entity Resolution capability in a much easier and quicker way. We’ve been investing heavily in simplifying the process of deploying, onboarding data, and configuring our platform and ER Accelerate marks a major milestone in our efforts to increase and speed up the adoption of Quantexa. And you’ll be seeing this simplification across the other key areas of our platform in the near future as well. Q: What is new in ER Accelerate? A: The most exciting difference with ER Accelerate is that a user will be able to deploy the solution, configure their data model and entity resolution, execute a batch ER run, and view the results – all without having to write any code! This will enable our customers to get up and running and start delivering value from our product much more quickly. To do this, we’ve bundled new or existing platform components that simplify the process of data ingest (Data Fusion UI) and Entity Resolution (Resolver) into one package and paired that with the ability to view and explore entities (Entity Explorer powered by Entity Store) and assess their quality (Quality Scoring). Q: You mentioned that ER Accelerate is going to be released via an Early Access Program (EAP) for now. What does that mean to our customers and partners? A: The reason we are going through an EAP is that we want to put our users’ needs to the forefront. During the EAP, which will take about 3 to 4 months, participants will be trying out the product with our guidance and we will be collecting feedback for inclusion in the product development process. This means when we bring ER Accelerate to general availability, it will be well tested in real-life use cases and enriched with functionality that our users need. Find out more about ER Accelerate here.
