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In case you missed it we have recently released Synopsis 2.0 for Android.  If you don’t have this app you need it!  It is a must have on the fly analytic app for all your data and analytic needs!

https://www.oracle.com/solutions/business-analytics/synopsis.html

These new features are available for Android today and coming soon for iOS.

Import Google Fit Data

Directly import fitness data giving you the power of Synopsis with a users analytic fitness history. 

Great to use as a sample project that contains Analytics the user can truly understand. 

Import Oracle Analytic Cloud Data Sets

Connects to the Oracle Analytics Cloud instance and allows a user to select any dataset they have created. 

Greatly expands Synopsis support for data sources as any Source in OAC is now supported for import on the users phone! 

Simple XLS and CSV always welcome! 

Chart Improvements and Additions

User can now start charts across multiple text elements like month and year. Just add more than one text element to a bar chart and tap the color by icon. 

Support for word clouds. 

Chart and Project Insights

Get basic insights on any chart with a simple tap of the info icon now shown on all charts. 

Perform device based Machine Learning on any project by tapping the processor icon in the project toolbar. 

Project insights appear with no user intervention and can be spoken the user. 

Calculated Numbers

Create calculated numbers on the fly! 

Calculations can be added and removed with easy and work just like any other number in a project. 

Hyper-fast creation with a custom calculator surface purpose built for the task. 

Import Data with Your Camera

Users can scan printed tables with the device camera and instantly create a project. 

Seeing a visualization in Augmented Reality allows a user to spot trends on printed data. 

Users can scan nutrition label and store and analyze nutrition data for your favorite foods, better informing daily health decisions. 

Project Merging

Allows user to combine projects with a simple drag and drop.  This is a really quick way to expand the data set in a project. 

Allows user to add data across time periods or regions and then merge the result into a single project. 

Simplicity, as always, is the key! Just drag the projects and we will tell the user if the merge is possible. 

Other New Features

Chart merging allows the user to combine charts with a simple drag and drop. This is a really quick way to analyze multiple data and text columns in one chart. 

Just drag and drop any chart in a feed on to another to create a new combined version of that chart. 

Back up and restore all of your projects.  This can be accessed is the application settings and works with the tap of a button. 

When helping customers with issue logs are key, and until recently getting logs from an iOS device has not been easy.  It required cords and a mac!  Well we have made this much easier and here is how it is done.

Using and iPad, open iOS Setting (note not our app settings, iOS settings)

Scroll to our app named Oracle BI HD and tap on it.  

There you can enable logging for our app.  We recommend leaving this setting turned off most of the time as it can impact performance.

Once enabled make sure our app is not running in the background by force quitting the app.  Here are instructions for this but iOS users typically know how it is done.

iOS 10 - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201330

iOS 11 - https://help.apple.com/ipad/11/#/iPad619935ea

Open our app and run through the scenario being tested and be sure to duplicate the issue that is being worked on.

Then goto our app settings and tap About.  At the bottom you should see a Share Logs option. 

Here you will be able to share logs to iCloud or other 3rd party storage along with email.  

In the Android version of Oracle Synopsis you can leverage a great ‘newish’ Android feature called App Shortcuts to access your most important projects quickly.

Just long press on the Synopsis app icon for about a second and menu will appear along with a quick vibration.  Release, and simply tap any of the menu options to quickly access a current project or import a new file.

You can also tap and hold on any of the menu ‘handles’ (lines on the right side of the menu item) and drag that specific action anywhere on your launcher.

Notice the Excel looking icon that I am dragging on my launcher in the image above.

Now I can just tap the new icon and open a specific Synopsis project directly!

We all have data and we all want to analyze that data, but most of us are not data scientists.  So we are working on a mobile app that allows any user, consumer or enterprise to analyze data.  The goal is simple; import data without bugging the user about layouts and formats, and present the user with the best visualizations based on the data.  

The app will be called Synopsis and internally it is code named Project Lens.

It is all about quickly and easily summarizing raw data in meaningful visualizations that a user can easily manipulate and share.  We are working hard on getting the product out, but I though share some screenshots.

Coming Soon!

Oh yea one more thing…

If you have not noticed our apps work just fine with both the major OS’s recently launched.  Yes our app works fine on iOS 10 and Android 7 (Nougat)!  The reason I am posting this is because we get a lot of support questions on this topic and I thought I would clarify how we look and new OS launches and how we release in preparation for them. 

We watch the news and rumors just like you do and as a lunch of a major OS becomes real we get engaged with the betas and try our app out.  Our first goal is to see if we are going to have any issue and if we need an update before launch.  If we do we try to make those changes needed early and get them out with a normal “bug fix” patch.  We also look at new features and work any new cool features or design changes into our next major release.  This usually comes after the OS update and can even be weeks or months later.

So if you were looking for an app update that calls out iOS 10 or Android 7 support you will not find that, but you will find that the apps work great on those  OS and, most of all, we support them.

If you want to check out our app you can download them on the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store.

We are working on a big iOS release and it is just about ready to launch.  You will have to wait to try it, but I wanted to share some of the key new features.  All I can say about release date is; coming soon...

Full iPhone Redesign 

This update brings our app up to date with iOS standards and is awesome on your phone!  We are sure you will love it and using it will feel natural and in line with iOS standards.

Updated Immersive Mode on the iPhone

Spotlight Search Support for BI Content

Leverage iOS Spotlight Search to quickly find and open BI content in our app.  Once you have opened a report or dashboard one time it will be available in Spotlight Search.

Native iOS Sharing on iPad and iPhone

Now you can share like you do in any other app.  As always select links or images, but not you can share to other apps on your device not just email.  text, photo editing, AirDrop and more.

There are also a ton of bug fixes and stability improvements.  We truly hope you love it when it drops. 

Coming Soon! 

Oh yea one more thing...

We are playing a bit with our apps iOS immersive mode on the phone and I thought I would share.  Remember this is not out and may never be out, but we are pretty happy so far.

Keep in mind that standard stuff with this post...

So we just launched our latest Android update and has some great new features that are all about sharing content.  

Share Nearby

Share nearby allows nearby users to easily share content with each other.  This works exactly the same as our sharing via URL or by using NFC tap to share but this is even easier!  Receiving users simply have to have the app open and accept the incoming share request.

Presentation Mode

With presentation mode you can ‘cast’ your screen to any supported cast device including Google Chromecast.  Just open any report and app will detect any nearby cast devices and show the cast icon.  Just tap the icon to put the BI content on the screen.

Share as an Image

In our previous version you could share our content as a URL and now you can also share as a image.  This way you can leverage other apps on the device, and even markup the image before you share it with others.

In addition to these great sharing features we also introduced support for BI alerts and displaying those alerts as native device notifications.