Q3 2024
New features and improvements introduced from July to September 2024
Enforcing SSO for all users within an organization
October 4th, 2024
New Accounts
We've introduced a new toggle in the settings that allows Admins to enforce SSO within their organization. When enabled, every single user in that organization will have to authenticate using Single Sign-On, regaldless of their role. Users that try to authenticate with other mechanisms, such as User/Password and Google Account will not be allowed to log in.
For more details, check out our section on SSO.
New Export Feature and Enhanced Security for Workflows
September 26th, 2024
New Workflows
We’re pleased to introduce several updates to Workflows designed to improve both functionality and security:
Export Data from Any Node
A new Export button is now available on the Data tab for every executed node in your workflow canvas, allowing you to export data directly. This asynchronous export process can be tracked via the Activity Panel, similar to how exports are managed in Builder.
Enhanced Security for Enterprise-Ready Components
In line with our ongoing platform-wide security initiative, we've implemented the following updates:
Send by Email now works without requiring attached data, offering more flexibility in workflow automation.
You can now specify a custom bucket location when using the Send by Email component, giving you control over where your data is sent.
Export to Bucket no longer uses public buckets. Users are now required to specify their own bucket locations, ensuring more secure data management.
These updates make Workflows an even more powerful tool for enterprise users while maintaining a focus on security and ease of use.
Require Viewer Credentials for Snowflake OAuth connections
September 11th, 2024
New Workspace
Users can now require viewer credentials for their Snowflake OAuth connections. When this option is enabled, anyone accessing data through the connection — whether they're consuming maps, running workflows, or using the data explorer — will need to authenticate with their own credentials.
This ensures that security policies set in the database, such as Row-Level Security, are enforced. For more details, visit our section on Sharing connections.
Monitor what's happening in your CARTO organization with the new Activity Data
August 30th, 2024
New Workspace
As organizations roll out CARTO to different teams and larger groups of users, it becomes increasingly important for administrators to understand and monitor how their organization is using CARTO, and this is now easy, powerful and flexible thanks to the new CARTO Activity Data feature
Administrator can now easily export (manually or programmatically via API) a comprehensive data collection of everything that happened within their CARTO organization.
The new Activity Data can be then analyzed to deeply understand things like:
Basic engagement indicators: weekly active users, workflows run per week...
Most used features: most used workflow components...
Quota consumption: who is consuming more quota and why
And many more insights about your CARTO organization
Want to get started? Head over to the CARTO Activity Data documentation. Make sure to also check the full Activity Data Reference, as well as the Examples where we share practical guides and SQL queries on how to analyze this data.
Improved asset ownership transfer
31st July, 2024
Improvement Workspace
We've introduced an improved flow for transferring user assets (maps, workflows, connections, etc) when deleting a user or when downgrading an Editor/Admin to Viewer. From now on, Admins will be able to select the specific user that will receive the assets.
For more information, check our documentation on Deleting users and Managing user roles.
Dynamic aggregation of point layer into H3 cells
31st July, 2024
New Builder
We've introduced a new functionality in Builder to dynamically visualize your point data as H3 aggregations, helping you gain deeper insights and uncover trends more effectively.
By aggregating point data, you can:
Simplify Complex Data: Aggregate large volumes of point data into meaningful patterns and trends, making it easier to interpret and analyze.
Enhance Performance: Improve rendering times and performance, especially with large datasets, by reducing the number of individual points displayed.
Identify Hotspots: Quickly identify areas of high density or activity, helping you make data-driven decisions.
Visual Clarity: Reduce visual clutter by grouping nearby points, providing a clearer and more informative map visualization.
Simply select this new visualization type and enjoy the benefits of aggregated data visualization, all with exceptional performance thanks to CARTO's native support for spatial indexes.
Enhanced layer panel and spatial source definition in Builder
29th July, 2024
New Builder
We are excited to introduce an improved layer panel in Builder for configuring your layers. This update significantly enhances the UI and UX of this panel, making the experience of creating visualizations in Builder even more enjoyable and efficient.
The redesigned panel features a cleaner layout and includes a new 'Data' section at the top. In this new section, you can define the spatial definition of the source linked to your layer. This is especially useful if your source contains multiple spatial columns or if Builder cannot recognize the spatial column by default.
Learn more about the spatial definition of your sources here. Also, explore our updated documentation section for layers to get the most out of this update.
Workflows Templates now available directly from Workspace
29th July, 2024
New Workflows
We are pleased to announce the integration of our collection of Workflow templates directly within the CARTO Workspace. This feature aims to streamline your workflow creation process, making it faster and more efficient to access and utilize pre-built templates.
Integrated Collection: Access a wide range of workflow templates hosted on the CARTO Academy website, now readily available in the CARTO Workspace.
Simplified Process: Users no longer need to visit the Academy site to download and import templates. The new feature allows you to easily recreate templates by selecting ‘New Workflow > From template’ within the Workspace.
Enhanced Usability: This integration ensures that all available templates can be accessed with just a few clicks, promoting best practices and facilitating quicker setup of workflows.
This feature is designed to ease the learning curve by providing immediate access to valuable workflow templates that illustrate both building blocks for common geospatial analytics and more complex use cases, like industry-specific analysis for Telco, Insurance, Retail and CPG, Out of Home advertising, etc
Zoom to layer extent in Builder maps
19th July, 2024
New Builder
We are excited to introduce the zoom to layer functionality in Builder, which allows you to easily zoom to the layer extent, providing an immediate view of your dataset. When layers are filtered by widgets or parameters, the zoom focuses on the filtered data, ensuring you see exactly what's relevant.
Additionally, we have incorporated a "Show only this/Show all layers" feature, allowing you to quickly toggle all layers on and off with a single action, especially useful for maps including multiple layers.
Whether you're exploring vast datasets or gathering insights on geospatially distributed features, these new features will ensure a better exploration experience!
Learn more about this feature in our documentation.
New Workflows Components for Creating Tilesets
15th July, 2024
New Workflows
We are excited to introduce a powerful new set of components in Workflows that significantly enhance your geospatial data processing capabilities. These components are designed to facilitate the creation of various types of tilesets, allowing for efficient visualization and analysis of large spatial datasets. Here are the key features:
Create Vector Tileset
Generate vector tilesets from point, line, or polygon tables, enabling smooth and interactive map experiences.
Create Point Aggregation Tileset
Aggregate point data along with their properties into tilesets, ideal for visualizing dense point data on maps.
Create Quadbin Aggregation Tileset
Generate tilesets by aggregating quadbin indices, providing a fast and scalable way to manage spatial hierarchies and visualize large datasets.
Create H3 Aggregation Tileset
Utilize H3 hexagonal indexing to create aggregated tilesets, perfect for detailed spatial analysis and representation.
These new components enable you to transform your spatial data into highly efficient and scalable tilesets, which can be seamlessly integrated into your mapping applications. For more detailed information on how to use these components, visit our documentation.
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