Decision Analytics portal replaces Predictive Analytics Director portal
Valid from Pega Version 7.3
The Decision Analytics portal replaces the Predictive Analytics Director (PAD) portal, the Text Analytics landing page, and the Adaptive Models Reporting landing page. In this new work area for predictive analytics and text analytics, the business scientist can control the full model life cycle by building predictive models, importing PMML models, building sentiment analysis and text classification models, creating and monitoring adaptive models, and updating any existing models.
For more information, see Overview of the Decision Analytics work area.
Event type browsing on the Customer Movie landing page
Valid from Pega Version 7.3
Event Browser is a new option on the Customer Movie landing page that provides insight into the history of customer interactions. You can retrieve data from the Event Store data set for a particular customer or a group of customers, display the events in a timeline, and browse a list of event types.
For more information, see Browsing events for a customer or a group of customers.
Select multiple nodes for the Adaptive Decision Manager service
Valid from Pega Version 7.3
You can select multiple Pega Platform nodes and assign them to the Adaptive Decision Manager (ADM) service as worker nodes. Adaptive learning is no longer restricted to a single server, which provides resilience and scalability. You can add or remove nodes from the ADM service while the system processes customer responses.
For more information, see Changes to Adaptive Decision Manager.
Performance enhancements to the Visual Business Director data set
Valid from Pega Version 7.3
When you create instances of the Visual Business Director data set, you can specify the granularity of data aggregations and select dimension levels to reduce the Visual Business Director memory footprint and query time. In addition, the Actuals Visual Business Director data set on the Data-pxStrategyResult class has been replaced with a regular Decision Data Store instance. You can now quickly update or synchronize records in the Actuals data set with the Interaction History data set.
For more information, see Data Set rule form - Completing Data Sets and Aggregation on the Visual Business Director data set.
Visual Business Director service renamed to Real Time Data Grid service
Valid from Pega Version 7.3
To avoid confusion in the Pega Marketing application, the Visual Business Director service has been renamed to Real Time Data Grid service.
For more information, see Real Time Data Grid service.
Improved adaptive model configuration and management
Valid from Pega Version 7.3
The usability of the Adaptive Model rule form has been improved by changes to the tabs and settings. Performance monitoring of Adaptive Model rules is now done through the new Decision Analytics workspace for business scientists. The Adaptive Models Management landing page has adapted to the new multinode architecture and displays the values for the number of outstanding responses and the time of the last update. Additionally, you can manually initiate updates from the Adaptive Models Management landing page.
For more information, see Changes to Adaptive Decision Manager.
Today widget for iOS custom mobile apps
Valid from Pega Version 7.3
The Pega Mobile Client has been extended to support a Today widget in custom mobile apps for iOS. By default, the Today widget displays the current user's list of work objects. This functionality is available only for offline-enabled custom mobile apps and requires that your certificate set include a widget provisioning file.
For more information, see Configuring a Today widget on iOS.
Validate rule support in offline-enabled applications
Valid from Pega Version 7.3
To enhance the user experience of your offline-enabled application, you can now use validate rules that are referenced by a flow action. You can also explicitly add other types of validate rules as offline-supported. The offline validation API provides two methods that you can use in your custom code to run from a Run script action or a custom JavaScript function. Several JavaScript utility functions, the equivalent of built-in Java functions for Pega® Platform, are now also available.
For more information, see Validate rule support in offline mode and Function rule support in offline mode.
Changes to Pega alerts that are related to Decision Data Store
Valid from Pega Version 7.3
The PEGA0085 alert informs users about insufficient disk space allocated for the Cassandra database. The PEGA0074 alert has been deprecated, and the PEGA0075 alert has been renamed and modified to include settings from the PEGA0074 alert.
For more information, see PEGA0074 alert, PEGA0075 alert, and PEGA0085 alert.
Improved diagnostics and logging for Decision Data Store nodes
Valid from Pega Version 7.3
On the Decision Data Store tab, you can view additional metrics from the Decision Data Store nodes that help with diagnosing Cassandra database problems. You can also set the logging level to control interactions from and to Decision Data Store nodes.
For more information, see Decision Data Service node status information and Configuring the Decision Data Store service.