The latest version of Prophecy builds on 12 years of continuous development and improvement.
This page features a list of the additional features added for Prophecy 2010, which was released at the beginning of November 2010. They add to a comprehensive existing feature set whilst retaining and improving on Prophecy's existing ease of use and flexibility combined with powerful capabilities which you can explore elsewhere on our site.
New Interface!
Prophecy 2010 features the new Office 2007/2010 style 'ribbon' interface, bringing it into line with Microsoft's current 'look and feel':
Note that Prophecy still fully supports the 'traditional' menus and toolbars interface of Office 2003 and earlier. The first time you run the new version you will be prompted to choose your interface:
You can cause this dialog box to appear any time you start Prophecy by holding down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and then launching Prophecy. Alternatively you can switch interface via the menu system as explained in the new help file.
Performance Enhancements!
This release is built using Microsoft's latest development environment and libraries, Visual Studio 2010. This has allowed a number of targeted processes within Prophecy to be speeded up by running them in parallel over the various processor cores in most modern cpus. Prophecy uses the new Microsoft parallel libraries and parallel processing manager to deliver parallelism and performance improvements in Prophecy cooperatively with other parallel applications running at the same time.
For example, our test report now replays 25% faster than in the previous version of Prophecy. (Source: internal test, running Windows 7 32 bit and Prophecy 2010 versus Prophecy 2009, replaying same report in each version, with numerous iterations on each environment .)
New 'Time Profiler' Tool
The new 'Time Profiler' tool allows you to create and apply time profiles to groups of cells. For example, you can save a seasonal pattern to a time profile and then apply that profile to any group(s) of cells over and over again.
'Colour Rules' Enhancements
The existing 'Colour Rules' feature, which allowed rows and columns to be conditionally shaded based on their label contents has been enhanced to allow:
- The matching rows and columns to be hidden instead of shaded.
- A 'match' can relate to the contents of more than one label cell - i.e. you can match on the nested combination of (for example) 'Budget' in the facts dimension and '2009' in the years dimension.
Here is a self-running demo which illustrates the enhancements:
Attribute Selector 'Find as You Type' Added
You can now search for attributes in the Attribute Selector by typing in a search clue. The attribute tree will be expanded and the matching attribute automatically selected in the tree, as you type.
Fact Selector
The Fact Selector now appropriately displays short or long labels depending on the chosen label length on the label radio buttons on the dialog.
Toggle 'Copy Cells' / 'Copy Labels and Cells' Setting
You can now double-click the light blue indicator on the status bar at the bottom right of the Prophecy Client to toggle the copy to clipboard setting between cells and labels and cells.
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