Product updates

February 28, 2025

February 2025

New functionalities:
  • New Snowflake connector. The Snowflake database continues to grow in popularity with a cloud-based model that combines a robust set of features at a reasonable price. With this update, you can now connect your Snowflake databases to Biuwer and use all available features, such as Reverse Engineering, Dataset Calculated Fields, Views in Biuwer, modeling with all types of relationships, and more. Remember that you can use any valid SQL expression in Views and Calculated Fields, as well as any function available in Snowflake.

Biuwer - New Snowflake Connector


  • Visual References in Charts. We're launching this feature by including the first two types of Visual References: Lines and Areas. Other types of Visual References will soon be included. These can be described as elements added to charts that expand the detail or representation of information. Specifically, Lines allow you to configure reference lines (constant values, maximums, minimums, average values, etc.). Areas allow you to configure colored surfaces to mark, for example, bands between which values should fall. The interesting thing about Visual References is that you can use data fields for their configuration, so the values they take can be dynamic. Below are some examples:

Biuwer - New Line Visual Reference for chart cards


Biuwer - New Area Visual Reference for chart cards


  • Zoom controls in Charts. An interesting feature is the ability to zoom into data within charts. In this update, we've added several options, starting with the ability to include zoom controls on each axis and also across the chart as a whole. Of course, you can configure colors, fonts, sizes, and positions, as is standard throughout the graphical interface.

Biuwer - Configuring zoom controls in charts


Biuwer - Zoom controls in charts


Biuwer - Zoom controls in action



Improvements:
  • Multiple improvements have been made to the filter system, especially in the handling of the "All Values" option, dependent filters, and filtering by URL parameters. We've been working intensively on internal improvements to the filter system to optimize performance with very complex configurations, especially when embedding dashboards in external applications, where URL parameters are often used to apply filters, in addition to configuring multiple hierarchical dependencies between filters (dependent filters), some of which have the "Auto-apply when a single value is received" option selected. Remember that you can use hidden filters to filter the values of other filters. A new "All values" filters with effective values option has also been included, allowing you to modify the default behavior when deemed necessary.

Biuwer - Multiple improvements in the filter system


  • Ultra-fast data insertion into Biuwer Data Warehouse. As you know, every Biuwer account has access to the Biuwer Data Warehouse, a fully managed database where the data managed by Biuwer is stored when you upload CSV, Excel, or JSON files, or when you configure connections such as cloud applications, REST APIs, etc. Since this update, Biuwer has a new ultra-fast data insertion system, which means that data updates take 10 to 20 times less time than before. This is especially important when you configure data refreshes every few minutes in your account, to have up-to-date data through rapid executions.

  • Improved the card separator on pages. Adjustments have been made to the card separator component to allow it to work in all scenarios (different widths, screens, devices).


Biuwer - Improved the card separator on pages


  • Improved data logic ready for interactivity in Charts. We've incorporated improvements to data filtering and sorting in charts to support all the interaction capabilities you'll soon be able to use in Biuwer.

  • **Visual improvements to the left sidebar of icons reflect the current Biuwer section you are currently working on (Spaces, Data Center, Administration, etc.).

  • Improvements to Text Functions in Card Calculated Fields. We've expanded the usability of text functions in calculated fields, primarily to allow the creation of all types of nested expressions.

  • Improvements to the Microsoft Business Central connector. This update includes new data entities that are included in the automatic synchronization of Business Central connectors in Biuwer.

  • Added custom sorting option for card calculated fields in Card visualizations.


Bug fixes:
  • Fixed the limitation of conditional styles in charts, which only worked with one configured condition. Starting with this update, all conditions are applied in a chain to obtain the final style of the chart elements.

  • Fixed the reported issue where numeric values in chart legends were displayed gray, without color.

  • Fixed the reported issue where crosstab data was not displayed in the row corresponding to a dimension with a NULL value.

  • Fixed the reported issue where opening a tab from tables would open multiple tabs instead of one.

  • Fixed an error when importing data from JSON files with date fields in a supported standard format.

  • Other minor fixes.