The theme of the Oomnitza Summer 2024 release is the enhanced management of software and reporting.
This is a preliminary list of the main features and feature enhancements that are currently targeted for inclusion in the Summer 2024 release.
Major enhancements to software management
In Oomnitza, you manage the software installed on your employees’ devices.
When Oomnitza syncs with the vendor applications that are used to manage assets, asset and software information is retrieved and displayed in Oomnitza. A list of the software and the version of the software is displayed for assets on the desktop software page for hardware. And the software name, version, and the total number of assets that have installed the software are displayed on the versions page for software.
Now, the features for configuring and managing software have been expanded to align with the features available for all other objects such as surfacing key information in dashboards, sharing information with colleagues, and creating workflows to notify colleagues of changes . Here are just a few of the new capabilities:
Surfacing key data. You can create dashboards and charts and tables to surface software and software version information about the software that is installed on assets.
Reporting. You can use the export feature to share key information about the installed versions of software on devices and of the software and software versions.
Alerting. You can create workflows such as a notification that informs the IT department when a new version of software is installed on an asset.
Gathering key data. You can add fields to the data model for desktop software and for software versions to enrich the information that is collected. For example, you can add an end-of-life date field for assets and any other information that you want to capture about desktop software.
Controlling access to data. You can use the screen builder to create role-specific views of desktop software. Organize information. You can change the layout of the pages and group the information into sections to make it easier for users to see the information that they need more quickly.
Bulk editing. You can select one or more records and use the bulk edit feature to change field values.
Activities feature transformed
The design and usability enhancements to the activities feature provides you with a single access point for monitoring changes made to your instance such as changes that might affect the security of your instance or the integrity of your data.
Using the advanced activities filter, you can detect who logged in and who attempted to log in to your Oomnitza instance. You can detect changes made to records and fields such as who deleted asset records, archived fields, or anonymized user records. And you can open the fields or records that were changed, view the user record of the person who made the change, and review the historical changes that were made to a field or record.
If you detect anomalies and want to share the information with your colleagues, you can use the advanced filter to reduce the noise by homing in on information relevant to your colleagues and then sharing the report with your colleagues.
The chart, depending on the date range and filter criteria that you specify, shows the total number of activities that occurred in the period selected.
Enhanced security feature for roles
When a role is granted permission to add users to Oomnitza, you want to control access to the roles that they select when they add users, share searches with users, and create role-specific dashboards. For example, when a user adds user records, you want to control the user roles that they can select and assign to the records that they add. You don’t want all users to be able to assign an administration or management role to any role.
Let's say you want to grant stockroom managers permissions to add users and assign only stockroom roles to users. All you need do is add a role name filter in the configuration section for the role to control access to the roles that they can assign such as Role name contains stockroom
.
And, when a user with the role of stockroom manager creates dashboards or adds users, the only roles that they have access to are roles that contain the word 'stockroom'.
The same access control is applied to other role-specific features such as creating saved searches, dashboards, customizing screen builder settings, and so on.
Notifications popup
You can show notifications in pop-up mode without having to navigate away from the page you're on. You get the same features that are available in full screen mode. And, any time you want, you can switch back to full-screen mode.
Canceling integrations
An integration running, but not completing and you want time to troubleshoot the issue? Now, you can stop the integrations that are not completing in a timely manner. Just go to the Sync Sessions page and simply cancel the sync session. You can then review the integration settings and check out the help article to ensure that everything is set up properly and then test and try again when your system isn't busy.
This feature is available for extended user and asset extended integrations and for custom extended integrations.
Copying dashboard charts and tables
Managers can create charts and tables, copy them, and then share them with other users.
Performance improvements
Platform
Workflow resilience. The improved handling of API errors eliminates the unnecessary retrying of workflows which has resulted in an improvement in performance.
Dashboards. The reduction in the number of API calls has resulted in an improvement to the loading time of dashboard charts and tables.
Integrations
Data processing when syncing with vendor applications. Records are now processed in batch mode when vendor applications sync with asset, user, and custom extended integrations which has resulted in significant improvements to the processing times for records.
Data queries for EasyBI have been optimized. This has resulted in significant improvements to the processing times for records.
Credential service optimization. Authentication errors are handled more efficiently, and unnecessary logging and redundant API calls have been eliminated which has resulted in a significant improvement to performance.
Integrations
New extended user integrations
- Atlassian. Ingests user data from the Atlassian suite of products such as Trello, BitBucket, Confluence, and Jira.
- Docker.
- NewRelic. NewRelic uses the NerdGraph, a GraphQL API, to ingest user data.
- Qualtrics.
- Revivn.
- Salesforce’s Marketing Cloud Intelligence.
- Samsung Knox.
- Verkada.
New extended asset integrations
- Revivn
- Tenable Security Center
- Samsung Knox
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