14 Apr Omniscope 2025.1 Rock Build

The time has come for the new Rock curtain rise – and we think you’re going to love what’s behind it.

After six months of development, the 2025.1 Rock Build is ready — delivering major enhancements across smart AI reporting, workflow resilience, visualisation, automation, and custom app development. Whether you’re exploring data, scaling multi-client reports, or deploying AI-powered dashboards, this release gives you the tools to go faster and build smarter.

Let’s lift the curtain.

🧠 Report Ninja – LLM-Powered Smart Data Exploration

Say hello to Report Ninja — a smarter way to explore, understand, and share your data.

Simply drag-and-drop your data and let the Report Ninja deliver answers in the form of fully built dashboards and charts — all guided by natural language.

Key Features:

• Instant Dashboards – Use the Instant Dashboard block to generate complete dashboards in seconds
• Data Q&A – Ask questions and receive answers as meaningful charts
• Conversational AI Assistance – Guide your exploration with natural language via buttons or a chat interface
• Flexible Model Support – Choose between:
  • Commercial solutions like OpenAI’s GPT-4o, o3-mini, or Azure OpenAI
  • Open source local models such as DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B running on llama.cpp for full privacy and control

💡 The Report Ninja and other LLM-powered features operate under a BYOL (Bring Your Own Licence) model. You bring your own API key and configure your preferred AI provider.

🔄 Ongoing improvements: As new AI models emerge, Report Ninja is designed to evolve — continuously improving as the underlying models get smarter.

📘 How to enable AI in Omniscope
📘 Using local AI models

⚙️ AI Integration in the Workflow

The AI Block has been updated to support OpenAI’s o3-mini reasoning model — enabling deeper, context-aware AI analysis inside data workflows.

This unlocks advanced capabilities when building white-labelled, AI-powered data apps, allowing seamless integration between your data pipeline and conversational AI.

📊 Visualisations & Reporting Enhancements

The 2025.1 Rock Build includes extensive improvements to the visual and user experience — making it easier to build polished, interactive dashboards.

New Views and Setup Tools:

• Quick Setup Wizards – A new, guided experience for setting up:
  • KPI View (now with Change Over Time mode) — Automatically visualise absolute or % changes over custom time periods (e.g., YoY, MoM)
  • Map and Region Fill Maps — Configure metrics, sources and styles step-by-step
• Spark Charts in Aggregated Table View – Add inline sparklines or bar charts inside cells, with options for layout and hiding values.
  📘Spark charts in tables
• Comparison Bar View – A new view type that lays out multiple bar charts side-by-side on a shared split axis, simplifying comparisons across metrics

🔍 Data Exploration, Interactivity & Chart Options

• Drill-down in Views – Available in Tile, Bar and Pie views. Click into elements (e.g., bars, slices) to explore underlying hierarchical data, then view/export results via table.
  📘 Drill-down guide
• Interaction Modes – New options to choose between single or multi-selection behaviours in visual elements.
  📘Interaction settings
• Improved Zoom & Pan – Smoother pinch-zoom and navigation, e.g. in Sunburst View.
  📘Zoom & layout
• Dynamic Chart Titles – Now support embedded formulas, variables, and field values for responsive titles.
  📘Dynamic chart titles
• Advanced Tooltips – Now with searchable, scrollable content, and editable titles, subtitles, and footers.
  📘Tooltips & interaction
• New Colouring and Label Options – Colour by split/stack across multiple chart types; customise label abbreviations, brushed-out colours, and border radii

🧱 Data Workflow & Field Management

We’ve made workflows more resilient and field handling more intelligent — reducing breakages from schema changes and improving reusability.

• Field Organiser Block (Redesigned) – Now includes:
  • A freeze mode to lock output schema
  • Warnings or errors when inputs change unexpectedly
    Read more about the 📘 Field organiser update
• Rule-Based Field Selection – Available in blocks like Search Replace, Aggregate and Pivot — now with improved UI and logic to target multiple fields at once.
  📘Rule  based field pickers guide
• New Formula Functions – Includes SAFEDIV, ROUND, FORMATDURATION for safer and clearer computations
• Project Paths Scanner Block – A new block that scans and maps all referenced files (e.g., IODs, CSVs) across a workflow, ideal for restructuring/migrating files
• File Block Preview Option – Ability to disable preview generation (handy when calling external APIs where preview data isn’t needed)

🗄️ Database & API Enhancements

• ClickHouse Support – Input/output block compatibility for large-scale, high-speed analytics
• Dynamic SQL Parameters – Use parameterised inputs for flexible queries, including table names and schema changes
• OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials Flow – Added support for server-to-server authentication across File Block, Batch API, File Output and Scheduler Tasks

🖥️ UI & Usability Enhancements

• Modernised Home Page – Better project navigation and template organisation, with support for custom branding colours and featured templates
• Cross-Project Copy/Paste – Blocks (including AI Blocks → Custom Blocks) can now be copied and reused across projects
• Performance Optimisations – Snappier project list, faster Aggregated Tables, smoother printing layouts, and better responsiveness in Tile Views with large data sets

⏱️ Automation & Scheduler

• Improved Scheduling – Enhancements include:
  • Auto-creation of target directories
  • Support for SSH keys in sequences
  • More robust delayed recurrence handling
• Disk Space Protection – Now possible to exclude key projects or folders from automatic cleanup
• Better Logging – Improved visibility and error handling during table rebuilds and scheduler runs

🧩 Blocks Library & Custom Block Protection

• Default Values in Library Blocks – Custom blocks can now come pre-initialised
• Custom Block Conversion – Convert any custom block into a reusable, protected library block
• Block Library Protection – Lock down your library to prevent editing or source code viewing.
  📘Blocks library guide

🚀 Platform for White-Label Data Applications

Omniscope now gives you everything you need to create, automate, and scale powerful custom data apps — branded, interactive, and intelligent.

Combine these building blocks:

🧠 Report Ninja – Auto-generate dashboards with AI, refine them in natural language

🧩 Parameterised Templates – Grouped parameters, optional/required/default param values. Read more on how to📘Create your Templates

📋 Form-Based Interfaces – End users can upload data, set parameters, and run processes — no technical knowledge required

👥 Multi-Tenant Reports – Serve many users from one model, each seeing only what’s relevant

🎨 Full Custom Branding – Logos, colours, layout and styles adapted to your or your clients’ brand

⏱️ Scheduled Delivery – Automate parameterised report generation with the Scheduler app

💬 Embedded AI Assistant – Build an in-app AI helper using OpenAI Assistant API and your own knowledge base

With these tools, you can deliver tailored, scalable, AI-powered data apps to clients or teams — all from a single platform.

🐞 Stability, Fixes & Security

• Bug Fixes – Addressed issues across map views, scroll behaviour, special characters, and more
• Security Improvements – Session termination upon permission changes, config file backup during upgrades, enhanced reverse proxy support
• Usability Enhancements – Cleaner escape key handling, better error dialogues, smoother interactions

In Summary

This release lifts the curtain on a stronger, smarter Omniscope. From intelligent dashboards to multi-tenant delivery, schema-hardened workflows to custom branded apps — Omniscope Evo 2025.1 Rock Build is built for teams who want more control, better speed, and smarter outcomes.

Now it’s over to you. Try Omniscope on our cloud server, and share your thoughts!