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ManageEngine Analytics Plus

ANALYTICS
Velocity0.0

Self-service BI and analytics platform for creating reports, dashboards, and data visualizations.

www.manageengine.com/analytics-plus ↗

A quarterly-paced BI suite closing operational gaps while Zia does the AI talking.

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◆Current state
Analytics Plus ships batched release notes every few weeks, each bundling several enhancements under a single headline that undersells the contents. The most recent covers complete workspace backup and restore — data, reports, formulas, users and settings, with scheduled backups and a 15-day window to undo a restore — plus Amazon DocumentDB import, Live Connect for ClickHouse and MongoDB, hourly incremental fetch intervals, and an API release adding report management, tag and AutoML endpoints. The prior batch added geo map localization, FTP import via Databridge, relative date filters and PDF table extraction.
◆Where it's heading
Two threads run through the releases. Operational maturity for self-managed deployments — backup and restore, incremental fetch scheduling, Databridge sharing — is arriving as ManageEngine pushes the product deeper into on-premise estates. The other thread is connectivity breadth, with each batch adding databases and file formats rather than deepening any one integration. AI shows up as Zia insights and GenAI administration, packaged as an assistant layer over existing reports rather than a rebuild of the analysis model.
◆Prediction
The AutoML API surface is the thread to watch: exposing model creation and deployment programmatically usually precedes putting those operations in the interface. Expect further Live Connect targets in the next batch, following the ClickHouse and MongoDB pattern.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1mo ago

    Workspace backup and restore, DocumentDB import, and AutoML APIs

    The headline is complete workspace backup and restore with scheduled modes and a 15-day undo, but the batch also carries Amazon DocumentDB import, Live Connect for ClickHouse and MongoDB, hourly incremental fetch, and API v2.9.0 with report, tag and AutoML endpoints. Substantial operational catch-up for on-premise deployments rather than a change of direction.

  2. 2mo ago

    Geo map localization, FTP import, relative date filters, and PDF extraction

    Geo maps gain local-language labels for country, state and city, and the batch adds Databridge FTP connections, relative period options in date range filters, and tabular import from PDF files. Connectivity and convenience breadth, consistent with how this product accumulates capability.

  3. 3mo ago

    Custom Background Colors for Comparison Indicators

    Comparison indicators in KPI widgets accept custom background colors so positive, neutral and below-target metrics can be distinguished without reading the numbers. A presentation refinement.

  4. 4mo ago

    Easier Content Discovery with Classified Views

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    Classified Views organize Explorer content automatically by interaction type, but the batch's weight is Zia Insights arriving at the dashboard level — analyzing every report in a dashboard together rather than one at a time. It marks the point where the AI layer started reasoning across a whole workspace object.

  5. 4mo ago

    GenAI Configuration Enhancements

    GenAI settings are reorganized by skill with a dedicated configuration interface and adoption dashboards, Databridges become shareable across an organization, and chart axes sort independently. The GenAI administration work is the operator-facing half of the Zia push.

  6. 6mo ago

    Build Custom Visualization Types

    Custom Visualizations allow charts built from third-party JavaScript libraries or bespoke scripts, alongside a US hex bin map projection and drill-through from dashboard widgets. An extensibility escape hatch for reports the built-in chart types cannot express.