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HiQube, a developer of business intelligence (BI) software, has announced the release of HiQube 5.0, a new version of the company’s flagship BI platform.

 

This latest version comes with “increased international language support and enhanced security features,” according to the company.

 

Equipped with features to support Unicode, HiQube 5.0 now supports numerous additional languages, including multiple Asian languages such as Japanese and Chinese dialects. Unicode is the industry standard for allowing technologies to “represent and manipulate text consistently” for most of the world’s languages.

 

Company’s officials said that by implementing the Unicode standard, the HiQube 5.0 user interface can be rendered in multiple languages. Moreover, information such as user comments can be translated into other languages to support global collaboration.

 

The upgraded version also features improved access list management, which officials said, increases the platform’s security and protects the underlying data model.

 

Officials pointed out that since the BI platform transcends the IT department and is deployed throughout organizations, customers need to limit the number of users that can edit the data model to protect the important data.

 

Previous versions, according to officials, could protect the data model from end-user manipulation, but the desktop application was able to make changes to it. The improved access list management enables customers to roll out full-featured desktop versions of the software to power users, and only those users on the access list can edit the data model.

 

In addition, HiQube 5.0 also includes scalability enhancements. Officials said that unlike “in memory” BI platforms that analyze static, cached data, HiQube performs queries “on the fly” against ever-changing data to provide real time information to business analysts.

 

 “The internationalization of the BI platform is the real headliner for this release,” said Robert Lewis, vice president of global sales at HiQube. “Many of our customers are large international organizations, many with numerous offices throughout the world.”

 

He also said that it is important to be able to share information and mine it regardless of the language in which data was input into systems. He added: “With the release of HiQube 5.0, businesses can have a better picture of their global operations.”