March Release: Time Zone Support and Other Goodies

Metamarkets is proud to announce the release of two major new features and a slew of small tweaks and bug fixes.

New Feature #1: Time Zone Support

Time Zone is set at the company level, and can be overridden at the user level. Imagine the case of a company headquartered in New York with offices in San Francisco: employees located in the latter will be able to override the company’s time zone settings to see the data displayed in Pacific Time. Every user can override the company’s time zone settings in their user profile.

New Feature #2: Single Sign On (Beta)

Single Sign On allows seamless integration into any third party system via iFrame. Taking advantage of SSO is easy and requires only a modest amount of development. Currently, the feature is still in beta and is available for testing purposes to customers that require it.
To learn more, please contact your account manager who will provide instructions and support for the integration. Single Sign On is still under active development and we are open to and welcome your feedback and enhancement requests.

The New Feature Requests Forum

As a way to engage you more closely in the creation of new features, we have opened a new Feature Requests Forum in our support portal which is open to all customers. Every idea, whether from the Metamarkets development team or from you, can be voted on and discussed.

Features that graduate from ideas to implementation will be marked as “in development.” This is our commitment to openness and transparency with our customers, and our attempt to involve you more closely in the process of creating a better tool to serve you and your analytics needs.

Other improvements and tweaks

  1. To support the new generation of high resolution screens, the iconography used across the application was upgraded to look just as sharp on old and new displays alike.
  2. To improve responsiveness of the system and manage the load on our backend systems, the query UI now requires a dimension to be selected before returning results. The old behavior is still supported in the Search UI.
  3. For users with administrative privileges, we improved the “on the fly” filter boxes with a clear button; a small detail that makes a big difference for power users!

Scheduled Maintenance Notice

In order to roll out the new version of Metamarkets, our application will be unavailable for approximately 1 hour, from 5pm to 6pm (PST) on Tuesday, March 12.

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