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FICO® Xpress Insight 5.7 – Jul 2023

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3 years ago
Xpress Insight 5is the technology component of Xpress Optimization that allows you to rapidly configure business applications to operationalize your analytic and optimization models. It provides a Compute capability that enables remote execution of Xpress Solver and Xpress Mosel. It is built on an industry-standard architecture that is scalable, secure and resilient.

This release brings enhancement to VDL, the new Datagrid, Tree Grid and Pivot Tables along with some more general VDL Layout and UI updates. It further allows the Insight Web UI to be customized w.r.t. background, color and text of login page, home page and masthead. The community version of Insight 5 is now available to allow community users to pick up the latest features such as custom progress reporting.

UI updates:
  • New VDL Actions that target the Insight Web Client and a method to trigger VDL Actions at view startup
  • Styling changes for tables in VDL and Insight to match the updated FICO styleguide
  • Custom data editing and formatting in the new Datagrid based tables
  • Custom header sorting for Pivot Tables to sort range-based headings

Corporate rebranding
  • Administrators can rebrand Insight’s login page, home page, and masthead. Customization is done by specifying images or colors for backgrounds, favicon and logo, as well as text for messages and titles

Community version of Xpress Insight 5
  • A community version of Xpress Insight 5 is now available. It is time-restricted and limits usage to a single execution worker and a single user.

Xpressinsight.py enhancements
  • The methods put_scen_attach and get_scen_attach now allow attachments to be downloaded and uploaded to and from files that have different names than the attachment itself.
  • Method get_attachs_by_tag now allows tagged attachments to be downloaded to a custom directory other than the local work directory via absolute or relative path.

Features available only on FICO Platform
  • An app can define their custom Python environment via an environment.yml (Python runtime and packages from conda) or requirements.txt (for PyPI packages). With this release, a custom R and Java environment from Anaconda channels can be specified.
  • The solution database can be queried conveniently from models written in Python or Xpress Mosel.
  • Xpress Insight 5 now supports Mosel modules for interaction with DMP endpoints, S3 and Xpress Executor. ‘dmpinitmanager’ can now be passed an optional string indicating the lifecycle environment.

We recommend reading the Insight 5 release notes for more details and several other enhancements.
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