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✨ Introducing Secoda AI personas (v.7.27.13)
We’re also thrilled to announce AI personas, our latest enhancement to Secoda’s AI capabilities. This new feature allows you to tailor AI interactions to specific roles within your organization for enhanced productivity and efficiency. Set up your AI Personas in your Secoda AI settings or learn more in our documentation.
🔄 Role-specific configurations: Assign each Persona specific resources, ensuring they access only what’s relevant.
🎨 Personalization: Customize Personas with unique names, icons, and specific instructions to align with your team’s identity and goals.
🔒 Controlled access: Restrict access to Personas by teams and users, ensuring the right tools are available to the right people.
💬 Integrated support: Secoda AI Personas provide contextually relevant assistance within the Secoda app and communication tools like Slack.
Continuing reading to see what else we've been up to!
New
- Collaborate on incidents with comments on the incident page.
- Share Secoda AI threads with teammates.
Improved
- Ability to sort search results by either external or internal popularity.
- Improved breadcrumbs for easier navigation.
- Fivetran lineage between sources and destinations.
🍂 Autumn is just around the corner, and Secoda's product team is gearing up for an exciting season!
Get ready for new and improved features like AI Personas, Slack workflows, and more. We can't wait to share them with you soon! 👀
In the meantime, check out what we've been up to this past week below.
New
- Easily access information from Secoda's Docs right within Secoda AI.
- Set up automations to add filtered resources to All Teams.
Improved
- Dashboard Previews for Thoughtspot are now supported.
- Enjoy a smoother experience in the Query editor, now with logs showing the steps taken when a Query is run.
✨ Enhanced control over property management
We’ve enhanced your control over how Tags, Owners, and Descriptions are managed during syncs. With our new settings, you can easily choose where these properties are maintained:
Maintain in Secoda:
Properties set in Secoda are locked and won’t be overwritten by future syncs.Maintain in Source:
Properties will be read-only in Secoda, ensuring that any changes made in the integration are reflected in the next sync.No matter which option you choose, all properties will be imported the first time a resource is synced with Secoda. Learn more here.
Read more about what's been released below 🔧
New
- Chrome Extension is now compatible with Lightdash and Hex
- Tableau setting added to exclude Personal folders from syncs.
- Monitoring now extended to Microsoft SQL Server
Improved
- Enhanced UI to clearly indicate when an Automation is in progress
- Ability to assign User Groups as Owners through an Automation
Data Quality Score is here!
We’re excited to introduce the Data Quality Score (DQS), a powerful new feature designed to help you monitor and improve the quality of your data with ease.
Here’s what DQS brings to the table:
📈 Automated Scoring: Automatically evaluate data quality across key dimensions like completeness, accuracy, and consistency at the column and table levels.
💡 Actionable Insights: Secoda provides real-time, actionable next steps to help you improve your Data Quality Score, ensuring your data remains reliable and trustworthy.
🚀 Customizable Settings: Tailor your scoring thresholds to fit your organization’s needs, ensuring that the DQS aligns perfectly with your data quality standards.
🔗 Seamless Integration: DQS integrates seamlessly with your existing data workflows, including your dbt Tests, providing actionable insights directly within Secoda.
Check out what else we've been cooking up below! 🍳
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- Hex integration
- A single API endpoint to upload both a manifest.jsonandrun_results.jsonfile for dbt Core integrations (learn more here)
- Ability to create a new tag directly from the tag selector
- Filters are now saved in the URL, allowing you to share your exact view simply by copying and pasting the page URL
Improved
- Multi-level lists now supported in documentation
- Numbers now formatted for metrics
- Improved breadcrumbs for easier navigation
Improved integration setup!
We’ve revamped our UI to make setting up your integrations even easier, more intuitive, and customizable. Here’s what’s new:
👥 Invite a teammate: Don't have the right credentials? Invite a team member to help set up the integration.
🛠️ Choose your schema/group sync preferences: You can now decide whether you want new schemas or groups to be extracted on the first sync, giving you more control over your data.
⏸️ Pause and disable integrations: Need a break? You can now pause your integrations or disable them from running with a simple click, providing you with greater flexibility.
🔎 Resource filtering: Filter out resources by title to focus on the data that matters most to you.
Learn about the integration settings here. Keep reading for more new and improved!
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- SSH support added for SSRS integration
- Use drag and drop to easily re-order elements of documents
- Github integration is now available to all customers
- Alphabetical sorting implemented in the side tree navigation for Dictionary, Metrics, and Documents
💬 Updated features for Queries
For every query synced to Secoda, you can now see a query summary page, which gives you the following insights:
🧠 Full code display of the query, with a convenient copy button to make it easy to share or reuse code in different contexts.
🕐 History of query execution, including run times. Optimize your queries for better performance and efficiency, and easily spot patterns and issue.
📚 An organized table view of any related resources associated with the query, providing a comprehensive overview in one place, and easier management of your data assets.
But there's more!
Secoda now offers the ability to see an aggregate view of all the queries in your workspace across all integrations! You can now do this through the Queries page, which is accessible via the shortcut menu (by clicking CMD + K).See what else is new and improved below!
New
- Preview support for BigQuery views
- Set owners on Custom SQL monitor creation
- Customize column widths when adding tables to documentation
Improved
- Bulk update for resource owners
- Group selection for Looker Studio syncs
- Enhanced navigation throughout the application, including an easier to find help button
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Metadata marvels and more! 👀
Integration with Google Cloud Storage:
Automatically extract and catalog metadata from Google Cloud Storage, including Buckets, Directories, Files and Fields. Learn more here!New
- Remove from Collection action added to command pallet
- Find and Replace functionality in Documents
- Templates for Documentation tab of Tables, Dashboards and other synced resources
- Use Secoda monitors with MotherDuck
- API filter generator (see it in action here)
Improved
- Exit warning when editing Documents
- Navigation updates (Settings can now be found in the top left, when clicking in the Workspace Name)
- Improved sidesheet views to indicate the source of the metadata
AI Filters
: Speed up the search process by using our new AI filters. Simply add in your keyword, and the Secoda AI filter will build the filter for you!New
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- Improved autocomplete on Query Blocks
- SCIM Group syncing
- New metadata available on API keys created for a workspace (IP address, number of times used, last date of use)
- Admin's can now set the resource owneras the recipient of any automated Emails or Slack messages through Automations
- Setting an owner is now a required part of the monitor creation flow
- Jira Issues can be filtered via Jira Query Language (JQL)
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🎵 Push it, push it 🎵 Back to the source! (v7.23.6)
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Push metadata to dbt:
Now you can push metadata from Secoda back to your dbt models. Push updates for column and table descriptions, owner details, and tags directly to your dbt code in GitHub.🔖
Sync BigQuery policy tags:
Enhance your data governance and management capabilities by pushing policy tags from Secoda back to BigQuery.Keep reading to see the other changes from the week!
New
- Infinite Scroll on Resource List
- OAuth Support for Big Query
Improved
- Continued improvements to Secoda filters and resource lists, including auto selection of the first result in a filter.
Fixed
- Folder structure for one off resources in Teams
- Refreshing of PowerBI Groups in Integration settings
- Pending Slack AI repsonse
- Table comments on Trino resources
- Trino monitors failing
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Revamped resources list (7.22.7)
We're making it easier to navigate Secoda by improving the list view of resources. We're focused on making your experience more intuitive, efficient and responsive to your needs.
What has improved?
- Improved user interface: Enjoy a cleaner, more intuitive layout that simplifies data navigation.
- Enhanced search and filtering: Our upgraded search and filter system ensures you can access the data you need with speed.
- Powerful bulk editing: Streamline your workflow with powerful new bulk editing tools. Use the new Commands menu to set tags, owners, and more across multiple resources.
Improvements
- Added additional columns in Questions overview
- Added query metadata
- Added descriptors to API keys
- Added previews for Mixpanel resources
- Updated and consolidated Tooltip component
- Fixed incorrect join workspace selector width
- Added integration sync cron schedule
- Added top teams and groups widget
- Fixed misleading question tooltip
- Aligned the lint-staged with the lint check
- Ratcheted the eslint max warnings down
- Added extra fields in ES for search and filtering
- Placed questions widget above resources widget
- Fixed spinner & skeleton redundancy
- Improved Tests UI
- Added top users searching widget
- Allowed expansion of custom instructions box
- Added support for Oracle Monitors
- Made copy changes for Metadata/Properties
- Removed max height from comment reply input
- Added header to AI Governance settings
- Scaled viewer onboarding educational screen properly
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