3 New Features and Enhancements in this Release
- Scenario Management
- Linked Configuration and Scenario Definitions – Bidirectional referencing is now supported, allowing scenario definitions to reference configurations and vice versa.
- Variable Frequencies in Scenario Execution – Users can define multi-frequency scenarios over a time horizon, for example: quarterly in Year 1, annually in Years 2–5.
- Support for Long-Horizon Scenarios – Stress tests can now be defined with up to 30-year horizons, grouped into 5-year buckets, enabling climate risk stress testing.
- Execution Controls – Flexibility to run scenarios in either parallel or sequential execution mode.
- Scenario Infographics – Enhanced visualization capabilities extended to granular variables.
- Document Management – Users can attach and manage documents at the scenario level.
- Enhanced Temporal Controls – Projects now capture additional key dates: Base Reference Date, Current Value Date, Scenario Start Date, and Direct Forecast Date.
- Retrospective and Future Scenario Simulation – Ability to run with today’s base date but analyze historical data, or use a historical base date with injected future assumptions.
- Heterogeneous Scenario Variable Support – A single project can now support scenarios with different variable sets, improving flexibility.
- Scenario Reuse – Historical scenarios can be copied, updated with current values/dates, and regenerated with updated pathways.
- Reporting and Metrics
- One-Click Metric Reporting – Report all metrics across underlying models in a project with a single action.
- Model-Driven Metric Onboarding – Automatic onboarding of metrics based on metadata (MD) dependencies, reducing manual effort.
- Variables and Metadata
- Auto Population of Variables – Variables are auto-populated based on metadata relationships during project definitions, reducing manual effort and improving consistency.
- Market Standardization for MEVs – Support for standardized and perturbed market economic variables (MEVs), with the ability to update downstream tables.
- Catalogs and Views
- Model & Process Catalog View – A detailed catalog is now available to inspect models, calculators, their input variables, metrics, and scope.
- Scope-Based Filtering – During project definition, models and processing engines are filtered automatically based on portfolio scope, with manual override available for privileged users.
- Data Catalog Upgrade – Integrated with the latest version of Data Catalog.
- Execution and Controls
- Run Abortion – Users can now abort in-progress runs to recover faster from bad inputs or misconfigurations.
- Results Framework – All scenario output dimensions are now level-based.
- Platform Upgrades
- MMG Upgrade – STSA Release 8.1.2.4.0 is aligned with MMG Release version 8.1.3.2.0.
- Upgrade Path – Seamless upgrade support from STSA version 8.1.2.0.0 to STSA version 8.1.2.4.0.