Month: January 2020

We hope everyone is having a fantastic start to 2020 (and that your end-of-year work is going smoothly!). If one of your new year’s resolutions is to save some time, then we have some updates that just might help!

Check out these features and fixes we’ve rolled out to the SLOPE platform in January! We hope you enjoy them, stay tuned for more soon.

NEW

• Introducing the Option Price Formula! This formula allows users to perform option pricing using the Black-Scholes model and is available under the Utility Functions menu within the Formula Builder.

IMPROVEMENTS

• Compute Environments have been simplified to a dropdown representing the number of CPU cores for each scenario. This should make things easier to understand and directly correlates with how run times are tracked in “core-hours”.

• When duplicating a projection, the default option is now to delete the old results, helping keep the Execution and Results areas of the application clean of old, unneeded results. This option can simply be unchecked to allow retention of the old results.

• Performance has been improved when selecting worksheets within larger excel files.
• Empty strings are now considered valid when importing a model point file.
• An informational icon now explains the purpose of the ‘Number of Points’ input on the Rolling Value calculation.
• Snapshots, Model Copies, and Imports now show the Created By user as the user who performed the action, instead of the original creator of the model.

FIXES

• We fixed some quirks in the interface that sometimes made things hard to click or resulted in an unintuitive state.
• Fixed a navigation bug in Internet Explorer

OPERATIONS

• We’ve made large architectural changes to the underlying data storage components in the reporting module, allowing for better performance, scalability, stability, and security.

New year; new features! This is the last release with features from 2019. We’re looking forward to continuing to roll out great features for our users during 2020. Going forward, we’ll start only sending out these updates monthly to reduce the number of emails you get!

NEW

• Introducing file-only data tables! This feature allows users to add tables beyond the 100,000-row limit by creating a table that reads from a file during calculation engine runtime. The records are only loaded into memory during execution of the projection.

IMPROVEMENTS

• Column read methods are now maintained when importing from a file over top of an existing data table.

FIXES

• Fixed an intermittent error during loading of larger data tables during calculation engine execution.
• Files with a ‘.xlsm’ extension now allow for worksheet selection within the excel workbook.
• Fixed an issue where changes appeared in Change Management for scenario tables between models that had not actually been changed.
• Fixed an intermittent error that occurred when using the Goal Seek function on larger machine sizes.