• Better performance. The old pivot view would often take a long time to calculate and update, particularly when working with large data-sets. You should find the new pivot view much quicker to work with.
  
• You can now select multiple measures. The old pivot view only allowed you to select a single measure.
  
• You can now select any field in the X and Y axis. In the old pivot view you were limited to selecting a single field.
  
• The new Pivot view allows you to tile by one or more fields. Each tile will show a separate Pivot table.
  
• There is now much more flexibility for configuring the look and feel of the pivot view. For example, on the view toolbar you can click the "Preset" button and choose to show the data as a grid or a table. More advanced options that allow you to configure options such as the pane height, label positions etc. are available in the "Layout" and "Style" view toolbar menus.
  
• The new pivot view includes more colouring options. You can now colour by the measure value, the measure name (useful when more than one measures are selected), by a single field or by a fixed colour.
  

• Import bookmarks. This option allows you to import all the bookmarks saved in a bookmarks XML file. This file can be located on your own computer, on a network location or somewhere in the cloud. Any bookmarks that you import will be embedded in your local bookmark file, so any edits you make will be made locally and will not edit the bookmarks XML file.
  
• Link to bookmarks.This option allows you to link to a bookmark XML file. You can link to a file on your own computer, a file on a network or a file somewhere in the cloud. Linked bookmarks cannot be edited, and are updated every time you open DataManager. You can trigger a manual refresh by selecting the linked bookmark and clicking the "Refresh" button in the bookmarks toolbar. If the linked bookmarks file is deleted they will no longer appear in your bookmarks the next time the list is updated. Linking to bookmarks allows you or your company to create a central bookmarks file that can be managed by an administrator and linked-to by multiple Omniscope users. If, for example, a database password changes, only a single update is required to propagate that change to all users.
  
• Export all bookmarks/Export folder. These options allow you to export all your bookmarks or a selected folder to a bookmarks XML file. After exporting, other Omniscope users can either import or link to the bookmarks. You can choose to export bookmarks to your local computer, a network location or somewhere on the cloud. Any passwords defined in any of the sources or outputs that you export will be encrypted.
  

Tag view

• Style options including number of tags, tag size range, tag font, tag orientation and tag margin.
• Single field selection.
• Size/colour/fade.
• Colour keys.

• Row/column layout.
• The ability to select more than one field.
• Tiling/Paning.

Tile view

• The ability to show images as well as regular tiles. Image options including Grid/Mosaic layout, title, title colour.
• Multiple group levels. Omniscope Desktop supports only 2 levels, however we have built the mobile tag view to support any number.
• Size/Sort/Colour/Value.

• Image zooming.
• Image effects (shadow/glow).
• Image mouse-over.
• Image surrounding colour.

• Multiple lines column header (can be hidden if lines are set to 0)
• Multiple lines table cells
• Automatic column width calculation (also takes multi line column header into account)
• Better general and grouped tables performance

• Main toolbar can now be hidden (respects IOK settings, can also be toggled with a menu item added to the main menu)
• Barometer can show selections in filtered out and all data views
• Added basic support for frozen devices

• Multiple measures (e.g. lines on bars)
  
• Independent scales
  
• Paning (horizontal and vertical)
  
• Tiling
  
• 100% bars
  

• Table grouping (multiple levels)
  
• Full support for cell colouring
  
• Colour keys
  

• Support for "Paper Report" style preset
  
• Basic support for branding: logo and favicon customisation (per server, not per file)
  

• Report type. You can select either "Campaign" or "Catgeory".
• Campaign/Category selection. Choose on or more campaings or categories (depending on which report type you have selected.
• Aggregation type. Choose from "Hourly" or "Daily". "Weekly" and "Monthly" types will be made available shortly.
• Date range. Select the start/end date for the report.
• Columns. Select which columns you want to appear in your report.

1. Register an account at http://aws.amazon.com/ it will ask for email address, contact address and credit card details
   
   
2. Got to http://aws.amazon.com/ and select My Account/Console -> AWS Management Console and click "EC2"
   
   
3. Click the "Launch Instance" button
   
   
4. Select "Ubuntu Server 12.04.2 LTS" (or whatever is the latest LTS release) 64 bit version
   
   
5. Select at least an m1.large instance type(Memory optimized image highly recommended)
   
   
6. Under "Configure Security Group" ensure that SSH and HTTP are added, if not present please add them.
   
   
7. After everything is configured properly click "Launch" and select "Create a new key pair", give it a name and click "Download Key Pair" (usage: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-key-pairs.html)
   
   Secure the ".pem" file, because that will be required for logging into the server and click "Launch Instances"
   
   
8. The Instance should be available under the menu "Instances" in the "EC2 Dashboard"
   
   
9. Click on the instance click the "Connect" button from the top, it will show the full ssh command to connect to the machine (ssh -i yourkey.pem ubuntu@yourpublicdns). A Java SSH client is also available from Amazon that can be used directly from the browser. We also recommend Putty for Windows.
   
   
10. Install Omniscope server:
    After logging in with SSH, you can manually install Omniscope, see http://www.visokio.com/kb/linux-installs
    
    
11. Deploy some IOK files to the HTML5 browser version “sharing folder” (webroot) typically at [home]/omniscope-server/mobile/
    
    To access the file system of the server under Windows you can use WinSCP, see: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/putty.html#Transfer_WinSCP
    
    We also recommend using Beyond Compare for Windows which natively supports SCP URLs such as scp://ubuntu@yourpublicdns/
    
    
12. Configuration changes must be made manually in the XML, typically by configuring a separate Windows installation (you’ll need another test key for Omniscope Server) and deploying “C:/Users/username/omniscope-server/config.xml” to the Linux server.
    
    For example, you can configure usernames and passwords, and can enable web-based “file management” (upload, delete etc.).
    
    You can additionally create “folder.xml” files within different sub-folders of the “sharing folder” for folder-specific users and permissions. See “folder.xml.default” automatically created on first start in the sharing folder.
    
    

• Logs management: where users can visualise and download server logs
  
• Health monitoring: where users can monitor the health status of the server, download the error reports and delete them.

What’s Omniscope Mobile?

Installing and activating Omniscope

“Desktop Sharing”, "New interface mode" and “Server”

Desktop Sharing

1. Open an IOK file in the desktop Omniscope app.
   
2. Click Settings menu > Web sharing > Viewing link (If you have a slightly older version of 2.9, Main toolbar > Mobile > Viewing link)
   
3. This will open a Mobile version of your file in a browser.
   
4. Use Settings menu > Web sharing to enable sharing with another device on your network or the internet.
   

New interface mode

1. Open an IOK file in the desktop Omniscope app.
   
2. Click Settings menu > Interface mode > New (If you have a slightly older version of 2.9, Main toolbar > Mobile > Slide from Desktop to Mobile)
   
3. Omniscope will change to the new mode, supporting navigating tabs, selecting and filtering and changing data titles such as "Split" and "Pane".
   
4. Use File menu > Save to make the file open like this when opened by your target audience (providing they've upgraded to 2.9).
   

Server

1. Launch the Omniscope Server shortcut.
   
2. In the server app UI, you’ll see an additional “Omniscope Web Server” service in addition to “Scheduler”. In this section...
   
3. If not running, click “Config” and tick “Enable server”, then click “Start”.
   
4. Click the “Sharing folder” link, and drop some IOK files here.
   
5. Click the “Serving at” link and explore Mobile versions of your IOK files.
   
6. Use the “Config” button to configure permissions, users, web-based uploads, bind address/port, etc.
   
7. Create “folder.xml” files (a default is provided) to customise permissions per folder. Edit these using Settings > Server > Edit folder.xml configuration (Desktop app) or Settings > Edit folder.xml configuration (Server app).
   

Notes

Unavailable functionality

• Custom styling (Only two presets, Analysis and Paper Report supported)
  
• Chart, Devices, Venn, Portal, Radar views
  

Platform support

• Windows - IE9+, Chrome, Firefox, inc. Windows 8 tablets
  
• Mac - Safari, Chrome
  
• iPad - Mobile Safari
  
• Android 4.x+ tablets - Chrome
  

1. Standard radial layout
   
   Classic way of plotting values of each category along a separate axis/spoke laying them out in a radial style.
   
   
2. Parallel coordinates
   
   It lays out parallel axes and plots the data elements across several dimensions.
   Each dimension corresponds to one vertical axis, and the data elements are displayed as series of connected points along the axes.
   
   

• Lines: in radial layout paints polygon lines only
• Lines and Fills: in radial layout paints lines and filled polygons
• Fills: in radial layout paints filled polygons
• Parallel Coordinates: in vertical layout paints lines

1. Vertical Common: A scale will be displayed on the vertical axis, all measures will be proportional to each other.
2. Hidden: Same as Vertical Common but no scale will be displayed
3. Independent: No scale will be displayed. All measures will be normalised independently.

• From the Style drop-down menu:
  
  • Show: Markers, Lines, Fills
  • Line opacity
  • Line thickness
  • Fill opacity
  N.B. these options are also per measure available.
  
  
• From the Spoke drop-down menu:
  
  • Colour spokes
  • Show range label on spokes
  • Pad spokes at center
  • Spokes transparency
  • Spokes thickness
  • Spokes layout
  
  

• Esri (batch). This will geocode locations in batches. Only one result (the best match) will be returned per location. This is useful when you want to geocode a large number of locations.
  
• Esri (multi match). This will return a configurable number of matches per location. You can use the "Max matches" option to specify the maximum number of locations to return per location value.
  

1. It's easier to manage and maintain. To edit a function you need to use a field organiser, locate the formula field and then edit the formula. Typically you will be using both GEOCODELAT and GEOCODELONG so if there are any changes you need to edit both of these. The Geocode operation is much easier to locate and change as necessary.
2. You can obtain more data. The GEOCODELAT and GEOCODELONG functions only return the corresponding lat/long values. With the Geocode operation you can obtain additional data. In the Yahoo geocode service there are around 25 additional fields such as "quality," "city" and "country". You can select which fields you want to include when you retrieve your data.
3. You can obtain multiple matches. The GEOCODELAT and GEOCODELONG functions only returned the lat/long values for the best match. In the Yahoo service you can enter a "Count" parameter. This can be used to specify the maximum number of results to return per location. In the example above we have used a count of "3" and obtain 3 results for "Chelsea".

Current use cases of ILF export/import files

• Shortcut to the original file - for example instructing Omniscope to open a file from a URL written inside the ILF file. This approach is typically used with the domain locking file security settings.
  
  More information: http://www.visokio.com/domain-locking
  
  
• To override the parameters in your Omniscope file.
  
  More information: http://forums.visokio.com/discussion/1402/integration-ilf-link-files-with-parameter-overrides-2.8

New use cases of ILF export/import files

• Branding

  
  Distribute your branding pack to with others in a form of an ILF file which on double-click installs the branding pack on the user’s machine.
  
  Currently you must have the branding pack you wish to distribute as ILF on your local machine
  
  How to create: Settings > (Application-wide) Advanced > Tools > Create distributable branding pack…
  
  More information: http://www.visokio.com/kb/rebranding
  
  

• Style

  
  Distribute individual style with others by simply sending them an ILF which on double-click installs the Style on the user’s machine.
  
  How to create: Style > Application styles > Edit… select the style you wish to distribute and at the top of the dialog click “Export”.
  
  More information: http://www.visokio.com/kb/customising-installations
  
  

• Bookmarks

  
  Distribute your saved bookmarks in DataManager with others in form of an ILF file. On double-clicking the ILF the bookmarks will be installed on the user's machine.
  
  How to create: Settings > (Application-wide) Advanced > Tools > Create distributable bookmarks…
  
  More information: http://www.visokio.com/kb/customising-installations