We are excited to announce the release of Decision Optimizer 9. We listened to our customers and this new version includes more efficient reporting and an easier install. This is achieved by being independent of Tableau and an update to the new lightweight version of Xpress Insight 5.
New Functionality and Changes Introduced with Decision Optimizer 9.0
New Features and Changes
Additionally, Action Effect Modeling 2.0 releasefocuses on improved usability and includes key requested features.
New Features and Changes
Note: This release requires users to upgrade to Xpress 9.3 and Xpress Insight 5.9.
New Functionality and Changes Introduced with Decision Optimizer 9.0
New Features and Changes
- The reports have been re-engineered for improved performance, and the dependency on Tableau software has been removed. Other enhancements include:
- Overall enhancement in usability and consistency, with updated styling and compact sizing of tables
- Combined “View parameters” (left panel), with “scenarios/segment/metric groups/metrics” filters (right panel) into one comprehensive set of filters.
- Improved usability and clarity on “Report configuration” and configurations now work across suite of reports.
- Report “Export” for each report is now a true .xlsx format, so the format is persevered and much cleaner and easier to use outside of Decision Optimizer.
- Note: Penetration Report is not supported in Decision Optimizer 9.0.
- Updated Decision Tree Editor:
- Numerous UI display enhancements provide a better user experience and allow easier visual checks of logical consistency
- Copy-n-paste now amongst two trees. Previously this was only allowed within a tree.
- Unique node identifier (NodeID) added to SAS code output.
- Importing from Decision Optimizer 8 is supported as long as you’re importing from Decision Optimizer 8.7 or later and Xpress Insight 4.59.1 or later.
- Please note importing directly from Decision Optimizer 6 is not supported in Decision Optimizer 9. If you need to migrate a Decision Optimizer 6 project, please first import/upgrade in a recent version of Decision Optimizer 8. Then follow the steps to migrate the Decision Optimizer 6 project to Decision Optimizer 9.
- The maximum size of an exported INSIGHT file has been removed in Decision Optimizer 9. Please note it was 600MB in Decision Optimizer 8.
- R component is not supported in Decision Optimizer 9 on the FICO Platform. You can continue to use it in Decision Optimizer 9 on-premises.
Additionally, Action Effect Modeling 2.0 releasefocuses on improved usability and includes key requested features.
New Features and Changes
- Support the application of custom actions bounds
- Display a summary of Target and Actions statistics (average, min, max, and relevant percentiles)
- Empty-bins statistics are displayed by UI when statistically relevant
- Default bounds for binning are “<” and not “<=”
- Fixed the formula expression for Action-Effect shape for shape factor equal to 3. The expression is now consistent with the other shape factor values.
Note: This release requires users to upgrade to Xpress 9.3 and Xpress Insight 5.9.
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