Announcing the release of version 2.4 of GT portalBase. It's been a while since our last major announcement but there's been lots going on on the development front. The blog www.gtportalbase.com/blog has seen frequent updates over the past six months.
To summarise recent development, the focus has largely been on visualisations to give admins/managers insight on how portalBase is being used as a database agile development environment. Visualisation techniques such as treemaps and sparklines have been employed to display where and how database data is being utilised in an organisation and allow drilldown to detailed statistics. Dashboards show various statistics at operational, tactical and strategic levels. Now that admins can clearly see what information users are finding most useful so that development priorities can be adjusted, the next visualisation work will be on automated data reporting for users, particularly reporting exceptions based on variance and trends. If you have any examples of database visualisations of this type that have been useful to you, or any that would be, whether or not you use portalBase, please let us know via the new www.gtportalbase.com/forum or feel free to post any other comments. Finally following requests, the documentation has been updated with full installation instructions for those needing a local install rather than a hosted service. Regards Oliver Kohll [email protected] / +44(0)845 456 1810 / +44(0)7814 828608 www.gtportalbase.com/blog - for news and announcements
