Usage Engine Private Edition™

The Configuration Diff feature in Desktop Online allows Usage Engine Private Edition users to easily compare configurations and visually identify differences. The intuitive interface enables seamless selection of configurations for comparison, with clear visual indicators highlighting variations in settings, values, and parameters.

The feature also supports encrypted configurations after verification. By reducing manual effort, minimizing errors, and providing a clearer understanding of configuration changes, this feature enhances troubleshooting, auditing, and overall system reliability.

Previously available in the Desktop Client, Configuration Diff is now also available in Desktop Online, bringing the same intuitive comparison experience and accuracy to the web-based environment.

The Configuration Tracer feature in Desktop Online provides Usage Engine Private Edition users with a powerful tool to track and manage configuration changes with ease. It enables users to view both active configurations and historical versions, including those that have been deleted, ensuring full visibility into configuration history.

With the ability to restore deleted configurations, users can quickly recover important settings and maintain system integrity. The feature provides detailed metadata, including ownership, access permissions, version history, and references to related configurations, offering a comprehensive audit trail for enhanced traceability.

By providing complete visibility into configuration changes, enabling rapid recovery of deleted configurations, and offering structured insights into dependencies and permissions, Configuration Tracer enhances troubleshooting, compliance, change management, and operational efficiency for users.

The DevKit Support feature enables efficient management and configuration of DevKit agents. Users can create a customized front-end for their DevKit agents by specifying the necessary fields and field types, ensuring a flexible and user-friendly experience.

Configuration details are dynamically displayed in the workflow editor based on the provided specifications, allowing for streamlined integration. Help text defined in configuration files is easily accessible from the UI, enhancing clarity and usability.

Additionally, the UI supports DevKit notifier plugins, providing a centralized interface for managing notifications. By improving configurability and usability, DevKit Support in Desktop Online helps users work more efficiently and effectively.

Previously available in the Desktop Client, DevKit Support is now also available in Desktop Online. This brings the same efficient management and configuration capabilities to the web-based environment, ensuring a flexible and user-friendly experience for configuring DevKit agents.

The ECS Statistics feature in Desktop Online provides users with a clear and comprehensive view of error code distributions, helping them quickly identify patterns and troubleshoot issues more effectively. Pie charts display error codes, providing clear visibility into the most frequent and impactful issues. Numerical values within the chart further enhance clarity, making it easier to interpret data at a glance.

The feature supports both new and reprocessed error codes, ensuring accurate and up-to-date statistical tracking. By improving error visibility and tracking, this enhancement strengthens error analysis, system monitoring, and operational efficiency.

Previously available in the Desktop Client, ECS Statistics is now also available in Desktop Online, ensuring the same detailed error analysis and visualization in the web-based environment.

Scalable Batch Workflows build on our robust approach to batch processing by introducing dynamic scaling capabilities that preserve the same transactional guarantees users rely on—processing data exactly once, maintaining order, and avoiding duplicates or missed records.

Traditionally, batch workflows were limited to single-threaded execution, requiring custom, static solutions for scaling. This new feature in Usage Engine Private Edition 4.3 eliminates that complexity by enabling dynamic scaling through a partition profile. For example, users can define that records be partitioned by customer ID, ensuring parallel processing of independent data while maintaining sequential processing where needed.

Backed by Kafka for data persistence, scalable Inter Workflow collectors dynamically distribute, rebalance, and process data, adapting to planned and unplanned processing peaks. By enabling systems to scale up during high-demand periods and scale down during low-demand periods, this feature minimizes overprovisioning, significantly reducing costs associated with maintaining idle resources.

With intuitive setup and enhanced performance for large batches, Scalable Batch Workflows empower users to achieve high adaptability, cost efficiency, and throughput with minimal effort.

This feature will be initially released to a selected group of customers before being made available for general release. If you have a specific need for this feature, please contact your account representative.

The System Statistics feature in Desktop Online enhances system monitoring and management by transitioning key functionalities from the Desktop Client.

Users can intuitively view and analyze system statistics, with capabilities to group and filter data, consolidating relevant historical information for specific Execution Contexts (ECs) and display only currently active picos.

The feature includes automatically updating charts and tables that display critical metrics such as Pico Heap Memory Usage, Pico Process CPU Usage, System Log errors, aborted workflows, unreachable picos, and pico response times. Users can refine their analysis by selecting time scales (minute, hour, day), applying formulas (average, maximum, minimum), and by using zooming capabilities on the charts.

Additionally, users can customize chart instances by adding or removing measurement types, tailoring the data view to their needs. Hover over functionality and direct links to tools like Pico Management and Execution Manager further enhance usability, providing real-time insights, efficient troubleshooting, and comprehensive system statistics.

Web IDE provides enhanced developer experience in Usage Engine Private Edition with an IDE-style interface, aimed at simplifying configuration management and improving workflow efficiency. This feature enables developers to work in a familiar environment by providing an interface akin to IDE tools they are accustomed to.

With the ability to open multiple configurations in tabs and utilize a split-screen view for concurrent work on two configurations, developers can streamline their processes and enhance productivity.

This feature reflects our commitment to empowering developers with intuitive tools and interfaces, ultimately facilitating smoother configuration management and optimizing the development lifecycle.

Beta release only. Contact your account manager for details.

This enhancement consolidates all Pico management functionalities previously spread across various screens in the Legacy Desktop into a single, unified interface within Desktop Online. Now, users can efficiently perform tasks such as viewing, editing, starting, and stopping Picos from one centralized location—the Pico Manager.

This update simplifies the user experience, eliminating the need to navigate multiple screens for Pico management tasks.

Introducing dedicated publisher and subscriber agents within Usage Engine Private Edition, specifically engineered to seamlessly integrate with Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), enhancing compatibility with AWS cloud services for customers operating in hybrid environments.

These specialized agents facilitate bidirectional communication between Usage Engine Private Edition and Amazon SQS, ensuring smooth messaging and data exchange within the AWS ecosystem.

The new agents provide users with enhanced control and flexibility in managing message queues, enabling efficient data processing and seamless integration with AWS services. By utilizing these agents, users can optimize their workflows, improve operational efficiency, and ensure reliable data transfer in AWS cloud environments.

The introduction of Amazon S3 Agents for real-time workflows in Usage Engine Private Edition provides a versatile and efficient solution for managing data.

This feature enables the real-time ingestion, transformation, and enrichment of data, supporting critical use cases such as immediate data processing, disaster recovery, and data backup. It also facilitates scalable data storage and seamless integration with analytics and machine learning platforms

Previously available only for batch workflows, the inclusion of Amazon S3 agents for both batch and real-time workflows mirrors the capabilities of existing SFTP/SCP/FTP/Disk agents, ensuring comprehensive and flexible data management across different environments.

This unified approach not only optimizes costs but also provides businesses with the ability to handle large volumes of data, enabling quick access to actionable insights and supporting robust data operations.

This comprehensive revamp of Kafka integration in Usage Engine Private Edition is aimed at increasing flexibility and simplifying management. The update includes a complete refactoring of Kafka integration, featuring new collector and forwarder components, support for subscribing to multiple topics, and wildcard functionality.

Additionally, improved support for batch processes enhances efficiency in handling large volumes of data. The update also brings scale-out capabilities with automatic rebalancing, ensuring that multiple workflows can efficiently manage and process data in parallel.

The new revision brings significant improvements in configuration, management, and operation, making these aspects more user-friendly and efficient. These enhancements empower users to seamlessly integrate Kafka with Usage Engine Private Edition for optimized data processing and management.

This enhanced feature enables users to query and edit reference data stored in SAP HANA databases directly from the Usage Engine Private Edition interface.

By providing access to managed reference data within SAP HANA, organizations benefit from enhanced efficiency in data manipulation and decision-making processes.

This integration simplifies operations by centralizing reference data management activities, ensuring compatibility with existing SAP HANA infrastructure, and facilitating real-time data access and editing capabilities

Global search in a web application revolutionises how users access information by providing a single search interface that retrieves data from all parts of the platform. It aggregates results from configurations, applications, and tools, enhancing workflows and user experience.

This feature ensures quick, comprehensive, and accurate results, making it an essential tool for boosting efficiency and productivity in any web-based environment.

Securing sensitive information, such as passwords, certificates, and keys, is a fundamental requirement in today’s digital landscape.

The integration with Google Secret Manager in Usage Engine Private Edition 4.2 provides centralized secret management, allowing users to securely store and retrieve secrets while associating them with specific environments.

This granular level of control ensures that only authorized individuals and systems can access the necessary credentials, offering a robust enhancement to overall security measures.

The Logging Enhancements in Usage Engine Private Edition 4.2 introduce a new 'Log Filter' screen, providing users with the flexibility to adjust logging settings in real-time for individual or groups of picos. This feature enables users to swiftly modify logging levels and apply filters to specific packages as needed. When special logging configurations are no longer necessary, picos can be easily reset to their default settings.

Additionally, Usage Engine Private Edition 4.2 enhances the platform's quality and usability by ensuring comprehensive and accurate logging across all agents and components. This update includes a meticulous review and cleanup of existing logs to ensure consistency throughout the system.

Introducing Support for SAP HANA as a Backend Data Store for the Data Veracity function in Usage Engine Private Edition, supporting organizations to enhance data accuracy and reliability for informed decision-making and compliance.

This integration enables efficient management of erroneous data within database tables, facilitating prompt identification and resolution of inconsistencies.

Whether managing large datasets or requiring real-time insights, this feature offers flexibility and efficiency, supporting users to elevate their data quality management practices and drive confident, compliant operations.

This feature is designed to simplify access to logs across all Picos, supporting users with intuitive graphical access to critical debugging information.

With this update, users can access debug logs via a user-friendly GUI interface within Desktop Online. The interface allows users to filter and search log files effortlessly, enabling quick navigation and pinpointing of relevant information. Additionally, users have the option to preview log files directly within the GUI or download them for further analysis.

This enhanced feature enables the ability to configure and utilize duplicate UDR detection without any reliance on the underlying disk storage.

Now, users can harness database storage for all data related to the detection and handling of duplicate UDRs. Backup and restore processes are simplified as all data resides within databases, ensuring data integrity and facilitating seamless recovery in case of system failures.

This feature allows a single 5G network function (NF) deployment to interface with multiple 5G core networks, simplifying management and reducing system resources requirements. Previously, each 5G core network required a dedicated 5G network function (NF) deployment, leading to increased complexity and resource usage.

This new approach streamlines network management and minimizes system resource requirements by allowing a single 5G NF to serve multiple core networks. In addition, a single 5G NF can now improve service continuity by having redundancy and failover capability across multiple 5G core networks.

Integrate EWSD systems seamlessly with Usage Engine Private Edition using FTP for efficient file transfer. By leveraging FTP for file transfer, users benefit from reliable and secure data exchange, ensuring the integrity of telecommunications data.

With centralized data management, users gain improved visibility and control over network performance, customer behavior, and usage patterns. Automation of data transfer processes streamlines operations, reducing manual intervention and enhancing operational efficiency.

Additionally, the scalability and flexibility of this feature allow users to adapt to evolving business needs and regulatory requirements effectively.

This feature is an enhancement to our existing capabilities. Building upon the previous setup, which involved passing schema registries into Ultra, this enhancement introduces a more streamlined approach.

Users now have the flexibility to reference external schema registries within a single workflow, such as distinct ones for the Decoder, Encoder, and APL functions. This enhancement not only facilitates efficient data serialization using the Avro format but also ensures schema consistency across distributed systems.

Leveraging Avro's compact binary format for encoding and decoding data, users can achieve heightened efficiency in data transmission and storage.

With seamless integration with a centralized schema registry, compatibility issues are mitigated, promoting seamless interoperability and reliability in distributed systems.

Usage Engine Private Edition now incorporates robust support for Mutual Transport Level Security (mTLS) within its framework. This feature enhances the security of communication channels utilized by web services within Usage Engine Private Edition. With mTLS, both the client and server authenticate each other's identities, ensuring a high level of security during data transmission.

This security mechanism is seamlessly integrated into the architecture of Usage Engine Private Edition, allowing for secure interaction between various software components, or "agents," involved in web service transactions.

Moreover, the flexibility of this feature enables administrators to configure different security profiles tailored to specific use cases or organizational requirements, ensuring optimal security without compromising efficiency.

This feature implements robust encryption and authentication mechanisms, ensuring secure communication channels within the Kafka ecosystem. With mTLS, both Kafka agents and the Kafka infrastructure authenticate each other using digital certificates, guaranteeing data integrity and confidentiality.

Seamlessly integrate this security measure into your workflows to meet compliance requirements while scaling your operations with confidence.

Strengthen your data security and enhance trust in your Kafka infrastructure's resilience against potential cyber threats.

Introducing the OAuth Provider for REST, a robust authorization server designed to generate access tokens crucial for accessing REST APIs hosted by HTTP/2 server agents. This essential feature comes into play when the OAuth 2.0 Authentication feature is enabled in the HTTP/2 server agents. Operating within a platform environment, the OAuth Provider for REST ensures the seamless provision of access tokens, elevating security measures for HTTP/2 server agents. This feature not only facilitates secure access to REST APIs but also enhances the overall integrity of HTTP/2 server agents, ensuring a reliable and fortified authentication mechanism within the platform environment.

Experience heightened security and streamlined authorization with the OAuth Provider for REST.

Our DROnline replacement marks a strategic shift as we migrate all DROnline functionality into the new Desktop UI. This transition aims to simplify and unify the user experience by consolidating all ECD management functions from DROnline into the Desktop interface.

With the release of the new Desktop, users can access a single interface for all their needs. This move signifies the removal of DROnline from our product, aligning with our commitment to providing a comprehensive and streamlined user interface.

Introducing an enhanced capability within Usage Engine Private Edition: the ability to configure and utilize inter workflow without any reliance on the underlying disk storage. Tailored for cloud deployments, where file system access may be limited and storage prone to loss, this enhancement eliminates any dependency on the file system for inter workflow profiles.

By seamlessly transitioning away from the underlying file system, this feature ensures a more streamlined and robust utilization of inter workflow in cloud environments. Now, users can harness database storage for all data related to inter workflow, enhancing flexibility and resilience in their cloud-based deployments.

Experience a seamless and storage-independent inter workflow with this enhancement.

Introducing Git Import/Export – a feature designed to streamline version control, enhancing configuration management with ease. Responding to the increased demand for convenient and user-friendly version control, this functionality allows users to clone repositories directly from Git, import and export configurations seamlessly between Usage Engine Private Edition and Git, and effortlessly switch between Git branches.

Experience efficient version control with the ability to clone Git repositories, import/export configurations, and change Git branches directly from our platform.

Simplify your workflow and configuration management with Git Import/Export – where convenience meets precision.

KPI Management is designed to empower users in transforming extensive raw data into actionable insights fit for multi-dimensional analytics. This feature helps customers dealing with diverse data sources and needing real-time insights by offering a complete solution.

The Configuration Repository acts as a centralized hub for KPIs and data transformation configurations, simplifying analytics processes and addressing issues related to disparate data sources and inconsistent analysis methods.

Elevate your performance with the Runtime Repository, optimizing data storage and processing to handle large volumes and eliminate traditional analytics system bottlenecks efficiently.

For real-time decision-making capabilities, the Real-time Processing Agent monitors incoming data streams, applying KPIs and transformation rules instantaneously, delivering immediate insights to navigate dynamic market conditions and emerging business events.

Simplify UI creation for tailored use cases with our latest feature designed to streamline the process, resulting in improved data insight sharing and enhanced workflow control.

This advancement brings forth a new processing agent that seamlessly interacts with workflow logic, offering a dynamic solution to expose custom Web UIs based on unique project specifications.

Experience a significant reduction in time and effort, making it faster and easier to deliver project and customer-specific UIs.

Enhance the versatility of your data workflows with this feature, introducing Python agents integrated into Batch, Real-Time, and Task processes. This addition empowers users to leverage Python's ease of use and flexibility and elevate data workflow management.

• The Python Collector allows real-time data collection, ingesting streams effortlessly.
• The Python Processing agent facilitates real-time manipulation, analysis, and transformation, supporting diverse workflow scenarios.
• Expand interoperability with the Python Connector, connecting to external systems seamlessly.
• Achieve automation with the Python Task agent, executing operations with script-driven flexibility.
• The Python Interpreter Profile ensures a standardized environment for execution, enhancing consistency.
• Elevate functionality with the Python Module, offering access to a rich array of Python resources.

This toolset provides users with flexibility and efficiency, making data management tasks diverse, seamless, and powerful.

The IPDR SP (Internet Protocol Detail Record - Streaming Protocol) agent is a powerful enhancement for real-time workflows. This feature supports users to process Usage Detail Records (UDRs) in real-time using Python scripting capabilities, providing flexibility and agility in data processing.

Organizations require timely access to actionable insights derived from real-time data to make informed decisions and stay competitive. However, traditional data processing methods may introduce delays in data analysis, hindering the ability to respond promptly to changing conditions or emerging opportunities.

This feature addresses the need for real-time data processing and insight generation. The IDPR SP agent not only streamlines real-time UDR processing but also provides a comprehensive solution for data collection and template customization, offering organizations the tools they need to extract actionable insights from their data promptly and efficiently.

Introducing an advanced feature that revolutionizes reference data management within the Usage Engine Private Edition UI. This functionality supports users by providing capabilities to query, edit, import, and export reference data directly from databases, eliminating the need to switch between applications or interfaces.

Particularly beneficial for scenarios where the Usage Engine Private Edition leverages reference data stored in Oracle and PostgreSQL databases, this feature significantly enhances operational efficiency.

By integrating external reference data management into the Usage Engine Private Edition UI, users can now perform tasks more quickly and efficiently, leading to improved productivity and resource utilization.

Data Masking is a critical feature designed to safeguard Personal Identifying Information (PII) during distribution, ensuring compliance with stringent regulations and protecting sensitive customer data. Building on the significance of this functionality, our latest enhancement addresses customer requests to elevate existing Data Masking capabilities.

This update places greater control and flexibility in the hands of users by introducing advanced algorithms for computing masked values. The configuration options now include the standard random algorithm (current algorithm), a random function in base64 encoding, and the UUID Random Version 4 random algorithm.

This enhancement ensures a heightened level of customization, offering users a refined and comprehensive approach to masking sensitive data containing PII in various scenarios.

Usage Engine Private Edition now features an integration that allows MySQL Cluster to serve as a comprehensive data repository for Policy and Charging Control (PCC). This advancement brings a unified approach to data management, simplifying the architecture of PCC and optimizing its performance.

MySQL Cluster's scalability and reliability enhance the system's capabilities, enabling telecom operators to efficiently handle increasing data volumes while ensuring high availability. Administrators can effortlessly configure PCC using MySQL Cluster, providing flexibility in defining and managing policies and charging controls.

This integration not only streamlines data processing but positions PCC as a more adaptable, efficient, and performance-optimized component within telecommunications networks.

In our continuous commitment to enhancing performance and scalability, we are excited to introduce an update to the Couchbase implementation within the Usage Engine Private Edition. Leveraging the more recent Couchbase SDK, this update ensures a modernized and optimized experience for users relying on Couchbase NoSQL database storage for components such as Policy, Routing Control, Usage Management (Metering), Aggregation, and Distributed Storage.

The existing limitation on the number of available buckets (30) has prompted this update, addressing customer needs for increased support, specifically for scopes and collections. By updating the embedded Couchbase SDK Client, we aim to not only modernize the implementation but also to support new server-side features, ensuring a robust and scalable foundation for our users' Couchbase-integrated workflows.

We introduce a new processing agent for real-time workflow configurations, Streaming Telemetry. This new agent is a push-based mechanism designed specifically for collecting network performance data, providing a more responsive and efficient solution compared to traditional polling methods.

Operating through the gRPC protocol over HTTP/2, the Streaming Telemetry agent retrieves crucial router information (OSS data) in real-time, addressing critical needs in network performance monitoring.

By eliminating the inefficiencies associated with polling, this feature ensures a streamlined and accurate approach to collect network performance data, particularly from routers. The introduction of Streaming Telemetry signifies a significant leap forward in ensuring a more responsive and reliable network performance monitoring experience for our users.

The Salesforce Streaming API agent is a processing agent for real-time workflow configurations allowing users to subscribe to Salesforce topics and receive messages. This powerful agent establishes real-time connectivity to Salesforce as a client, adept at listening to changes in specific objects using the Salesforce Streaming API.

The real-time sync capability ensures immediate responsiveness, allowing prompt awareness and action on critical updates, including user creations, updates, or deletions within Salesforce. Serving as a dedicated processing agent, this feature seamlessly integrates Usage Engine Private Edition with Salesforce, providing a unified data management solution. The agent's dynamic adaptability enables workflows to promptly respond to real-time requests, facilitating the creation, updating, or deletion of users in response to dynamic changes within Salesforce.

Users can subscribe to specific Salesforce topics, supporting tailored real-time workflow configurations aligned with the precise areas or events within Salesforce that matter most to organizations.

Elevate your real-time workflow capabilities with the Salesforce Streaming API agent, fostering dynamic, granular, and seamless integration with Salesforce.

With this feature, developers utilizing Usage Engine Private Edition have an efficient method to manage logging for any ECD, leveraging the flexibility of Log4J configuration. With standard Log4J options readily available, logging settings can be dynamically adjusted on-demand, eliminating the need for service restarts.

This implementation introduces APL-based logging functions, ensuring simplicity and ease of use for developers. Additionally, Log4J configuration can be seamlessly managed via a Kubernetes ConfigMap, enhancing deployment efficiency and scalability.

Usage Engine Private Edition 3.1 introduces ARM64 compatibility, allowing users to leverage ARM-based CPUs such as AWS's Graviton chip. This significant enhancement brings forth a game-changing opportunity to harness comparable compute performance to x86 equivalents but at a substantially lower cost.

With the rising prominence of ARM-based architectures, especially AWS's Graviton, x86 is no longer the exclusive default CPU architecture for all applications. Instead, ARM64 compatibility positions itself as a viable and cost-effective option for diverse scenarios. As part of this update, ARM64-compatible images of Usage Engine Private Edition are now available, enabling seamless deployment on Graviton and other ARM-based architectures.

This both broadens the scope of CPU options and also focuses on optimizing infrastructure costs.

Introducing Data Hub, a robust feature within Usage Engine Private Edition that empowers users with the capability to store and query substantial volumes of processed data. Designed for versatile applications, Data Hub serves as a pivotal component for various scenarios, including data tracing, temporary archiving, analytics, seamless integration with external systems, and staging data for further processing.

To unlock the full potential of Data Hub, the feature relies on access to Cloudera Impala, ensuring high-performance, low-latency SQL queries on data stored in a Hadoop filesystem (HDFS). The Data Hub agent facilitates the bulk loading of data in CSV files to HDFS, followed by the insertion of this data into a Parquet table in the Impala database.

DataHub provides a comprehensive and versatile solution for effective data storage, retrieval, and processing, ultimately supporting users goals of deriving meaningful insights and optimizing data workflows.

Conditional Trace 2.0 offering users the capability to precisely monitor and troubleshoot specific records, such as individual customers, in real-time deployments. This feature enables efficient issue resolution by allowing users to define filters for capturing relevant data, ensuring a focused approach to monitoring and troubleshooting.

The integration with Jaeger, a state-of-the-art trace logging application, further enhances traceability, providing users with comprehensive and detailed insights into the system's behavior.

Conditional Trace 2.0 delivers a powerful solution for businesses seeking enhanced visibility, streamlined troubleshooting, and enriched trace logging capabilities in data-intensive environments.

Introducing the Desktop Online, our new user interface in this release. Accessible via web browsers like Microsoft Edge, Chrome, or Firefox, it offers the same functionalities as the Desktop Client (Desktop) with exclusive features like Archive Inspector (3.1). Desktop Online boasts a modern look, eliminating the need for local client installation.

Key advantages include enhanced accessibility for users with screen readers or keyboard navigation, aligning with WCAG 2.1 AA standards. Ongoing development promises additional features, while the existing Desktop Client remains available during this transition.

In addition to the above highlighted new features, explore our detailed guide for a clear breakdown of all the latest features and functionality introduced in Usage Engine Private Edition

To stay up-to-date with product updates and roadmap, join our DigitalRoute Product Update webinars. Start exploring now!