Release Notes - AO Easy Answers
Release Notes - AO Easy Answers
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Release Notes - 4.5 - AO Easy Answers

Intended audience: all users

AO Easy Answers: 4.5


Release Date

  • March 2026


Overview

  • Release 4.5 builds on previous 4.x releases of the AO Easy Answers solution.

  • The 4.5 release continues to focus heavily on improving the overall user experience, usability, and functionality in the AO Easy Answers solution.

  • This topic includes a high-level introduction to the new and enhanced features made during this release.


New in Release for AO Easy Answers

Easy Answers Agent

  • A new Easy Answers Agent UI is now available, replacing the previous Easy Answers Chatbot functionality. The Easy Answers Agent makes use of a new Agentic AI framework, which is many times more powerful, flexible, and future-proof compared to the Chatbot in previous releases.

    • The Agent provides both textual answers as well as visualizations (tables, charts, and infographics).

    • Some visualizations can be changed to alternative visualizations from a simple dropdown.

    • LLM Interpretation Modes provide users with more control and flexibility over how questions are interpreted and validated against the ontology - especially related to resolving ambiguities and unknown words. Power users with granted permissions can change LLM Interpretation at runtime.

    • View the Agent Plan for resolving questions.

    • Context provided for each question in the conversation.

    • A branching option allows the user to start a new conversation from any previous question.

    • Drilldown on Agent response by generating a detailed dynamic dashboard.

  • See Easy Answers - Agent Page.

Easy Answers for Mobile

Easy Answers

  • LLM Interpretation Modes provide users with more control and flexibility over how questions are interpreted and validated against the ontology - especially related to resolving ambiguities and unknown words. Power users with granted permissions can change LLM Interpretation at runtime. See Easy Answers - Processing a Question.

  • Suggested Next Questions are now shown after an answer to a previous question. See Easy Answers - Asking a Question.

  • In the Easy Answers Options menu

    • When downloading data for Easy Answers questions, new options include the selection of MSO Query and Underlying DB SQL. See Viewing All History.

    • New options to view Easy Answers Agent History, showing details about all questions, grouped by Conversations. See Viewing All Agent History.

Dashboards

  • Ability to refresh one or more App configurations in case Micro Apps, Trait Apps, and/or Custom Apps are reconfigured in Ontology and App Composers. See Refresh App Configurations.

  • Ability to include Custom Apps in the Configure Filters list of Apps. The prerequisite is that Custom Apps have to be enabled in the App Composer. See Configure Filters.

  • Ability to Auto-Refresh Dashboard every [x] minutes. See Create and Edit a Dashboard.

Insights Feed Page and Quick Insights

  • Enhancements to Generalized Regression Quick Insight - support for both linear and non-linear (new) regression models. See Quick Insights for Generalized Regression.

  • Enhancements to Generalized Correlation Quick Insight - support for new binary, categorical, and continuous data types and combinations of the same. Secondly, Correlations can now be performed for All Correlation fields (shown as a Correlation Matrix) or By Pair (shown as a Forest Plot). Thirdly, a number of UI elements have been updated for added clarity. See Quick Insights for Generalized Correlation.

  • Enhancements to Causal Inference Quick Insight - support for new Continuous Treatments data type (in addition to existing binary and categorical). Continuous Treatments will generate a Line-based Treatment-Response Curve and a Baseline ATE Curve. Secondly, Causal Inference will also support non-linear modeling. Thirdly, a few configuration properties have been removed to improve usability. See Quick Insights for Causal Inference.

  • Enhancements to Geospatial Correlation Quick Insight - support for new scalable methods to handle large datasets.

  • Enhancements to Time-Series (Single) Quick Insight - a number of model optimizations that result in narrower bounds for the 95% confidence, variable screening, and test for relevant data, none of which require new configurations. See Quick Insights for Single Time-Series Data.

  • Enhancements to T-Test Quick Insight - New Pooling Mode for: Independent Groups or Related/Dependent Groups. Test for Means - Two Sample T-Test / AB Test.

Notifications

  • Ability to suppress Desktop Notifications from other users of the same Role association as the current user. See User Settings.

Terminology Update

  • A new term, Semantic SQL, has replaced the previous Ontology/MSO Query terminology in various user screens, downloads, and reports.


Documentation

  • Updated the Open Source Library list included with AO Platform and AO Easy Answers as of March 2026.

  • The product documentation can be accessed from both within the software (from the Documentation section in the User Menu), from the App Orchid website (Resources section), or directly from the following URLs:

  • Product documentation now includes a new AI Search feature that will provide a summarization response to the user’s search term(s) based on the App Orchid documentation.

  • The ChatGPT-based AO Knowledge Assistant has been updated. The combined AO Platform and Easy Answers documentation has been used to create a GPT that can generate summarized responses to practically any question about the functionality and use of the AO Platform and Easy Answers solutions. A ChatGPT account is required to use the AO Knowledge Assistant.


Deprecations/Removals

  • None


System Requirements





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