Release 5.5
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Tellius 5.5 redefines how teams orchestrate data refreshes, track shifting metrics, and analyze live data at scale—with precision and speed. From Smart Refresh Pipelines that coordinate dataset updates intelligently, to Rich KPI Charts that clearly show both current values and how they’re trending over time, 5.5 is built to reduce friction and boost clarity. You’ll see a more polished, intuitive interface, richer Live mode integrations including Redshift Spectrum and custom fiscal calendars, and enhanced export, cloning, and issue resolution. Whether you're analyzing millions of rows or just watching for the next spike, 5.5 gives you more control—with fewer clicks and cleaner context.
Refreshing datasets one by one causes Tellius to repeatedly rebuild the same Business View, leading to unnecessary overlapping refreshes and silent failures.
Smart Refresh Pipelines brings a canvas where you can add multiple Business Views into a single pipeline. Tellius maps all underlying datasets, lets you set one cadence for the entire chain (or skip nodes that you don’t want to refresh). A built-in, customizable scheduler triggers the flow, monitors every node, and pushes real‑time status to the Notifications page; if a dataset fails, you can restart from that node, or run an ad‑hoc refresh instantly.
A single pipeline refreshes shared datasets once, then rebuilds every dependent Business View together, eliminating redundant refreshes.
Detailed logs list every success, failure, and error message, complete with quick links to the dataset, Business View that needs attention. Pipelines can be renamed or deleted, multiple flows can target the same dataset on different cadences, and flat‑file nodes automatically warn you that they won’t refresh.
Fewer duplicate runs, faster fixes, no partial refreshes or stale KPIs. Provides end-to-end visibility and real‑time status.
Now every KPI card can show its own historical trend. With the all-new Rich KPI chart, pick the relevant measure, date field, and choose a cadence—daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly. Tellius automatically:
slices the data at that cadence,
plots a sparkline behind the headline number, and
displays a colour-coded delta (green for up, red for down) versus the previous period.
Because the trendline and delta always use the same cadence, the KPI layout stays consistent as you pivot between time resolutions—no dataset changes required.
Tellius extends the native Redshift connector so you can browse, query, and join S3‑backed external tables exactly as you do native Redshift objects. All interactions run in Live mode and inherit Spectrum’s parallel read performance, keeping most ad‑hoc queries under the five‑second mark. Result sets are off‑loaded to S3, then streamed back to Tellius.
With this, you can create an external table in Amazon Redshift Spectrum that maps to your CSV or Parquet files stored in AWS S3. Once the external table is defined, it can be seamlessly imported and queried within Tellius just like a native Redshift object. This setup allows you to analyze raw S3 data in-place without needing to move or duplicate it. Tellius also supports deduplication on Spectrum data, letting you eliminate duplicate records during analysis for cleaner, more accurate insights.
We’ve re‑designed every listing screen of each module around a single, seamless visual language. Headlines, axis labels, cards, and tooltips use a darker, more legible typography; spacing and alignment have been tightened for cleaner dashboards; and a simplified colour palette keeps your focus on the data. Navigation bars, filters, and menu actions now appear in the same place and follow the same rules throughout the product. A clearer, faster, and more intuitive interface that lets you find answers faster.
Until now you could only copy chart onto the tab you were already on; moving it elsewhere meant rebuilding the chart, re‑applying formatting, and remembering every filter. The new cross‑Vizpad Copy & Paste flow copies any chart—even in view‑only mode—and you can paste (in Edit mode) onto another tab or switch Vizpads. Behind the scenes, Tellius bundles chart‑level filters, conditional formatting, and data context so the pasted chart renders instantly. Each clipboard copy will live as long as your session.
Previously, exporting tables from Vizpads meant stripping away filters, formatting, and metadata that explain what the numbers mean. We’ve added another option in the download menu for tables and detailed tables to export any table with its active filters and column metadata, so it matches exactly with what you see in your Vizpads. One click now pushes any flat or detailed table—faithful to the on‑screen view—straight into a workbook. Choose the specific columns you want and set a row limit. Two extra worksheets ride along: Filters and Metadata (optional), which records each column’s display name, description, synonyms, and feature type.
Under the hood, we preserve what makes the table readable: number formats, text alignment, and conditional highlights. A toast tells you when the export starts and flags any failure. Row‑ or cell‑level comments stay out of scope to keep the process fast and the file lightweight. Export a fully formatted, filter‑aware table to Excel in seconds—no rebuilds, no lost context.
Remember the custom calendars that we released in 5.4? Now it’s more “live-mode ready”. You no longer need write access to the warehouse—or an admin on standby—to use a calendar at query time. A new tab Custom Calendars has been added when connecting to Snowflake or Redshift, BigQuery or Spark SQL: pick a calendar that’s already mapped, let Tellius auto-detect it, or download it as a one-click CSV and point to a table you load yourself. A datasource-level default applies that mapping to every Business View that uses the connection, while individual BVs can still override it. If a link breaks, Tellius falls back to the ISO calendar, explaining why.
The old “First Day of Week” field is gone—week start is inferred automatically. Once you pick a fiscal-year start—say the first Sunday in February—Tellius can unambiguously derive that week 1 begins on that same weekday (Sunday).
Users are now prompted to accept updated Terms & Conditions as soon as they open Kaiya, ensuring full compliance before starting a conversation. A direct link to the terms is included, and you can click on Accept to proceed. Kaiya will remember acceptance for returning users—keeping things compliant without adding friction.
Additionally, admins can configure a custom Terms & Conditions URL directly from Settings → Advanced → Kaiya. This allows organizations to enforce their own legal or compliance policies.
To improve user login consistency and reduce provisioning issues with external identity providers (IdPs), usernames are now case-insensitive by default. This means superUser and superuser are treated as the same user. Previously, usernames were case-sensitive unless manually configured otherwise. Existing deployments can still override this behavior in Settings → Security → Configuration, but new instances will default to case-insensitive username matching.
