What’s new in Siren Platform 14.5

A record-as-relation is a way of setting up relations between records using a central entity table that represents their links. They’re ideally suited for complex or many-to-many relations to reduce clutter in your data model. For example, participants in a conference call can all be connected together through a call record rather than many relations connecting each participant directly. That call record can also include additional information that a simple relation can’t.

Records-as-relations offers clarity, scalability, and analytical power. They enable complex relationships to be represented with rich metadata, can simplify graph structures, and support advanced analysis. This approach is particularly valuable in situations requiring high volume peer-to-peer relations like phone calls, messaging, bank transactions, and social media sharing.

For more information about creating and using records-as-relations, see Records-as-relations.

Entity resolution streamlines search results by resolving equivalent records into a single search result in Siren Investigate. You can use it independently or alongside Siren ER to dynamically merge the results while simultaneously maintaining data lineage and access control.

You just enable entity resolution at the table level and toggle it on or off directly within your search settings. For a smarter, cleaner way to explore your data, remove the clutter from your search outputs caused by overlapping results for the same entity.

For information about configuring and using entity resolution, see Entity resolution in Siren Search Investigate

To help ensure data integrity and reliability, you can now use field values to identify your records in case their _id values change due to reindexing or reingestion. In the data model, select a combination of primary key fields whose values create a unique combination for each record. You can also select just one field if that field has a unique value for each record.

For more information, see Primary key fields.

To gain a further understanding of how an aggregated link is formed, you can now filter a dashboard with the filter used to create the aggregated link. Just right-click the aggregated link, select Filter to dashboard, and then select a target dashboard. The selected dashboard will open with the filter applied.

For more information, see Controlling graph relations.

The Advanced Settings section now has an improved layout and inline validation to prevent the entry of incorrect values, making it easier to find and update settings.