Introducing Pega 7.2.1

Decision management
Big data and event strategy management

• Run predictive models directly on an infrastructure of a Hadoop environment using an external data flow.
• Directly access HDFS data sets that store data in the Parquet format.
• Experience the improved look and feel of the Event Strategy canvas.
• Enable splitting event strategies into multiple streams for more control when tracking customer behavior patterns.
• Maintain Event Strategy state without any data loss in batch flow and real-time data flow that might pause for unforeseen reasons.
• Categorize streaming or batch customer data as specific event types in the Event Catalog.

Decision strategy and proposition management

• Import and export data in generic decision data rules.
• Experience better control for defining filters on proposition (action) rules.
• Use default behavior rules if a proposition (action) does not qualify for a filter.
• Define the start and end dates for all types of propositions using the proposition validity settings.

Text analytics and social data feeds

• Define custom entities in entity extraction.
• Retrieve historical data from Twitter data sets using the new playback option.
• Limit the retrieval of posts from Facebook data sets to the posts created within a specific time period.

Visualization and simulation

• Visual Business Director (VBD) now runs on any Pega-supported browser.

Scalability

• Administrators can now configure a standard cluster of DSM (Decision Strategy Manager) nodes.
• Administrators can now monitor data flow runs that are distributed across nodes and partitions.

Application-building experience

• Use design templates to control the layout of fields on forms in Pega Express. See What's New in Pega Express and What's New in User Interface for more information.
• Preview your application on a simulated mobile device. See What's New in Mobility for more information.
• Change the presentation of your dynamic layouts by using the flexbox layout mode.

Mobile experience

• Enhance the look-and-feel of your custom mobile apps by using transition effects on actions that a user can take on a case.
• Enable push notifications to call attention to unresolved assignments in a case.
• Provide greater support to offline users.

Case management

• Enable notifications for your case type to call attention to unresolved cases.
• Use rich text and URL fields in your forms to collect information from users.
• Enable email approval and open the correspondence rule to customize the email template on the approval step.
• Save time by using Keyboard shortcuts in Process Modeler, which has been enhanced to be faster, more responsive, and easier to use.

Project delivery

• View, add, and delete the specifications that are associated with a rule on the new Specifications tab of most rule forms.
• Specify whether to include related built-on application layer assets in application profile documents and application documents, and specify whether to include specifications from the built-on application layer in specification documents.
• View information for application profile documents and application documents generated by the Document Application tool in a more logical order based on how the application was built (for example, by case life-cycle management). These documents also now include all specifications linked with an implementation rule, presented in logical order under the implementation rule.