IHS Petra - Innovative Geo-Tech...

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IHS Petra®

What’s new in Petra today

and where are we going?

Kayla Ball

Product Manager, Petra


Agenda

What’s new in IHS Petra today

Petra 4.0 and what a new

database means for your

business

Future plans for Petra


Petra 4.0 Release

• Improved overall performance

• Increased information access speeds in large multi-

user networked environments

• Improved database table management

• ElevateDB service manages all data requests

• Reduces likelihood of data corruption/loss

• Manages user roles and permissions

• Manages projects, backups, and repairs

• Minimal changes to the end user workflow operations

while allowing for added workflow efficiency

Provides a new database engine, ElevateDB which delivers:

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Typical Current Petra Network Installation Typical 3.X Petra Network Installation

Project Public Files • DB

• Pub Parms

• Overlays

• Grids

• Rasters

Project Private Files • Pri Parms

• Colors

• WSN List


Petra 4.0 Network Installation

Project Public Files • Overlays • Grids • Rasters

Project Private Files • Colors • WSN List

Petra Project DB

Pub Parms

Pri Parms

Petra 4.0 Network Installation


Easily Migrate Projects to Petra 4.0

• Petra v4 works with projects in a

fundamentally different way than older

versions.

• The migration tool upgrades older

projects to work with the latest version

of Petra.

• All projects should have a good backup

before initiating project migration.

• Performing a full repair, optimize, and

pack on the v3 project will speed up

migration.


Petra Server Admin Tool

Easily create user roles

and control read/write

permissions for projects.


Petra Server Admin Tool

• Project management

window

• Project information

• DB maintenance

• Full project backup

• All in the same intuitive

interface


Recap: What is changing?

• Users and roles

• All users will login to Petra before accessing the

database(s)

• DB administration

• User and role management

• Private parameters

• Moved from client parms into the project database

• Access from anywhere

• Project Management

• No project INI files to manage

• Automatic search of projects on server


How does this affect end users?

• Main objective is to minimize any changes

to the end-user • Better performance

• Log-in • Users must now have an account created for them

on the server

• They will login with these credentials each time

Petra opens

• Private parameters • Now reside within the database

• Access same pri parms from any computer that can

access the DB without copying any files

• Copying projects/ parms • End users do not have access to file structure


How does this affect the IT/Admins?

• Database server

• Service to install and update

• Requires ports to be opened throughout

network

• User management

• Every user must exist in the users table on the

server

• Role (permission) management

• New admin utilities/processes

• Project backup and restore

• Database repair

• ODBC capability

• Current ODBC driver runs against ISAM only

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