©2013 Lavastorm Analytics. All rights reserved.1 Lavastorm Analytics Engine 5.0 New Feature Overview

©2013 Lavastorm Analytics. All rights reserved.2 What’s New in LAE 5.0? Logistics Manager Error Management Improvements Tour Guides Auto-Update Communication Platform Support Updates Minor Enhancements

©2013 Lavastorm Analytics. All rights reserved.3 Lavastorm Analytic Platform Ease of Use & Visualization Cloud Computing & Virtualization Inter- operability Marketplace Model Portable Computing Big Data Analytics Lavastorm Analytics Engine 5.0 Overview LAE 5.0 Tour Guides Error Management Improvements LAE 5.0 Tour Guides Error Management Improvements Continued focus on improving user experience and enabling customers to be productive and self- sufficient LAE 5.0 Logistics management / SOA deployment Auto-Update Communication LAE 5.0 Logistics management / SOA deployment Auto-Update Communication Improved application management functionality and software distribution facilities enable new deployment models and reduce cost of system maintenance

©2013 Lavastorm Analytics. All rights reserved.4 Logistics Manager Replaces existing need for cron + scripting with native graph scheduling and monitoring functionality All functionality exposed via Web Services APIs, allowing invocation from other application management tools (e.g. Control-M) Reference UI implementation included with the release provides a Web-based interface for using functionality 0 7 * * 1-5 /server/project/graph/ExtractGraph.sh >> ExtractGraph.log 2>& * * 1-5 /server/project/graph/AnalysisGraph.sh >> AnalysisGraph.log 2>& * * 6 /server/project/graph/PublishGraph.sh >> PublishGraph.log 2>& * * 7 /server/project/graph/CleanupGraph.sh >> CleanupGraph.log 2>&1.

©2013 Lavastorm Analytics. All rights reserved.5 Error Management Improvements Error messages more concise and provide more context for root cause and resolution Error codes are linked to Lavastorm Community Forums, where all users may contribute resolution techniques as different exception scenarios are encountered

©2013 Lavastorm Analytics. All rights reserved.6 Tour Guides Step-by-step instructions to guide user through complex node operations, simplifying use Users can create their own Tour Guides to facilitate reuse of complex nodes across mixed user profiles

©2013 Lavastorm Analytics. All rights reserved.7 Auto-Update Communication Replaces manual notification of new release availability with automated notification (and optional installation) of new software as it is released –Especially important with rapid-release LAL program (i.e. new nodes) Foundation for other planned communication features for future releases –Auto-submission of product usage patterns, to aid in prioritization of new features –Streamlined submission of error reports to Lavastorm Support, replacing current manual process

©2013 Lavastorm Analytics. All rights reserved.8 Platform Support Updates New client OS support –Microsoft Windows 8 New server OS support –Microsoft Windows Server 2008 –Oracle Solaris 11 Discontinued client OS support –Microsoft Windows Vista Discontinued server OS support –Oracle Solaris 9

©2013 Lavastorm Analytics. All rights reserved.9 Minor Enhancements Tableau as an External Data Viewer (already available as a LAL node) Workgroup Edition now includes Python node, without the need for the optional Developer Node Pack

©2013 Lavastorm Analytics. All rights reserved.10 What’s Planned For LAL 3.0? LAL 3.0 aligned with LAE starting at 5.1, new nodes will only be released via LAL 3.x and will only be compatible with LAE 5.x Current plan has the following nodes slated for 2014 Q2 LAL roadmap intentionally left very flexible, allowing us to react to market conditions or specific customer requirements in an agile fashion InterfaceAnalyticsUtility Output Spotfire Hadoop (HiveQL) Archive extract / compress Send + SharePoint Output Tableau Ex … TERR + … Linear regression k-means clustering Market basket Discover data patterns … Calculate work days Remove null fields Ranged join Input / Output local Substring lookup …

©2013 Lavastorm Analytics. All rights reserved.11 LAE 5.0 Benefit Summary Logistics Manager simplifies deployment and maintenance of automated applications, increments toward cloud enabled platform Error Management Improvements leverage growing Lavastorm user community to build knowledge base and accelerate time to productive use Tour Guides enable new class of users to perform complex analyses which they could not themselves construct, accelerate reuse of sophisticated analytical nodes Auto-Update Installer ensures that new functionality is always in the users’ hands, especially important for frequent LAL release cycle; silent installation simplifies enterprise client administration Platform Support Updates keep pace with adoption of new hosting environments, especially department-level (i.e. Windows server)