Unqork released four major updates to its Codeless-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform in Q3 and Q4, 2022. All four new features, which take advantage of Unqork’s pioneering work in codeless architecture, significantly increase the productivity and agility of developers (we call them creators) in three key areas:
- Multi-region availability & reliability: Access to environments across multiple regions and zones for increased availability and resiliency.
- Analytics: Streamlined data management and security for analytics and reporting.
- Security and compliance: Workspace access control and permissioning for increased collaboration while minimizing security risks.
- Workflow management: Workflow version history for increased agility, transparency, and security.
Multi-Region Highly Available Environments
Unqork has introduced Multi-Region Highly Available Environments to deliver next-level reliability and improve overall customer performance. Before, customer environments were available across multiple zones in one region. With the new multi-region environments, customers have access to environments that span multiple regions and multiple zones. This provides additional redundancy for local failures and regional service procedure outages. Unqork will route creators and end-users depending on latency to the best region, allowing them to optimize performance and improve resiliency. The new multi-region configurations are supported in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific.
Benefits:
- Improved availability & SLAs: Uptime is critical for any application and business, and a multi-region approach allows you to give better availability SLAs and improve platform uptime availability even further.
- Lower recovery times: Our rigorous security measures start with availability of the Unqork platform, and applications built on it, across multiple regions to satisfy enterprise business continuity.
- Improved performance through the use of optimization: We have added geo-targeting so that creators and end-users can be routed to the best cluster in case of a disaster.
Analytics ETL Service for Snowflake
Access to readily available and high-quality data for analysis is critical for today’s enterprises. However, traditional data warehouses are often inefficient for modern technology requirements and rely on BI connectors to make data analytics-ready.
The problem is, BI connectors are not a sustainable solution in today’s rapidly evolving environments. They are hard to set up and maintain. They introduce an added layer of security risk to manage. And each new query or view requires time-consuming backend configuration.
In response to these challenges, Unqork has launched a series of ETL-based solutions that eliminate these roadblocks, the first of which is Analytics ETL Service for Snowflake.
Now, you can seamlessly and securely consolidate application data from disparate sources within Snowflake’s extremely flexible, performant environment. The easy-to-use solution enables you to extract data from any system and move it to a Snowflake environment daily (or more often if required). Benefits include:
- More effective data governance: Eliminate rigid data structures, gain flexible controls, and support data self-service.
- Streamlined configurations: Optimize query performance with easier, more flexible configurability.
- Scalability and extensibility: Quickly accommodate new data sources and new and/or changing data models.
- Increased security and transparency: Eliminate the security risk of BI connectors, and increase visibility and monitoring.
Watch Analytics ETL Service for Snowflake in action
Workspaces Role Based Access Control (WSRBAC)
As the digital footprints of organizations expand, controlling access to sensitive data is critically important. However, traditional methods for safeguarding data and limiting access to authorized users are tedious, time-consuming, and resource-intensive.
In response, Unqork has launched Workspaces Role Based Access Control (WSRBAC), which helps developers control and manage access across their entire organization based on individual roles or groups. Now, teams can work independently within a single Unqork environment without gaining unauthorized access to the work of other teams.
WSBRAC establishes two levels of hierarchy for access to Unqork. Environment roles provide access across all workspaces. Workspace roles provide access to the contents of individual workspaces, per request.
In addition to establishing these hierarchies, WSRBAC increases the productivity of creators by enabling them to:
- Define and control user roles from a central location, with only a few clicks
- Admins can provision users in Unqork, or they can set up single sign-on (SSO) to map workspace role configurations to various groups.
- Creators control who can access or share application elements across multiple workspaces. For example, only Workspace Managers and Admins can control where and when an app element is shared.
- Easily scale enterprise operations by adding more teams to the Unqork platform
- Speed up your processes and gain higher flexibility with predefined roles, while separating tiers of access by Manager, Editor, and Viewer.
- Add as many members of your organization as required into a single Unqork environment, and easily collaborate with permissions that are in line with all security requirements.
- Increase enterprise data security and reduce risks
- Take advantage of Unqork’s security-first approach to application creation, which restricts role and user management to Administrators and IAM (Identity Access Managers) only.
NOTE: WSRBAC is being released to Staging and UAT environments gradually. You’ll receive an in-product announcement when this feature is available in your environment.
For more information please see our documentation page.
Watch an introduction to Unqork WSRBAC
Workflow Version History
Optimizing workflows is critical in today’s hypercompetitive market, yet developers typically lack the ability to preview or audit them—or roll them back to a previous version should the need arise. Questions naturally arise as developers are trying to update or optimize workflows. Who created the workflow, and what was their logic?
Similarly, there are security issues at stake when it comes to workflow versioning. For example, did the developer who has made a change have the proper credentials? Without version history, it can be hard, even impossible, to answer these critical questions.
Finally, the inability to preview or roll back workflows is a drag on productivity, agility, and innovation. On one hand, developers lack the confidence to test out multiple scenarios or try creative new solutions. On the other hand, they may hesitate to implement a new innovation, because they cannot revert to a previous version, should a problem arise.
To address these challenges, Unqork has launched Workflow Version History. By allowing creators to preview, audit, and restore previous versions of a workflow, Workflow Version History enables organizations to:
- Improve team collaboration & project management
- Track who makes changes, when, and why
- Create a log of all changes to track revisions
- Easily find and access information by adding titles/descriptions to each version
- Accelerate the performance of your applications
- Test out new processes with confidence, knowing you can easily revert to the previous version
- Ensure security and lower business risks
- Leverage autosave to ensure no data is lost
- Enhance the quality of business processes
- Preview workflows without having to save them to ensure you have selected the correct one to restore
- Find and fix errors by restoring to older versions or releases and comparing the changes
Creators can preview a workflow to ensure the proper workflow is restored
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