Release Notes - Ekata
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Release Notes

November 2021

APIs

  • Transaction Risk API v2.1 has 6 additional signals that will provide additional predictive value to all customers, but especially PSPs/in low fill rate environments, and regions outside of North America.

October 2021

Identity Engine

  • Data version 43 release: Expanded coverage with new email data additions in Brazil and Australia. Also expanded US business data coverage with new data source addition. Performed data refreshes across all regions.
  • Holiday readiness: To prevent performance issues around holidays load testing is to be conducted beforehand to be able to prepare our environment for volume increases.

September 2021

Identity Engine

  • Data version 42 release: This includes newly added  Italy residential data (phone, email and address)  and also refreshes (consumer + business) across NAM and EMEA.
  • Network Risk Panel 4.0 and Network Score v3, Ekata Identity Risk Score v9 – Customers can now see insights about the name associated with the transaction and benefit from improvements to Ekata’s network score.
  • Additional improvements to international phone data coverage.

APIs

Pro Insight

  • Pro Insight Identity Review now has a learning mode available to customers. This is a guided tour of Pro Insight geared towards helping new users quickly learn about the Pro Insight interface and how it surfaces risk signals to make faster decisions on a global scale.

August 2021

Identity Engine

  • Identity Risk Score released with performance and distribution improvements for NA, EMEA, and APAC customers.

Pro Insight

  • Ekata Pro Insight – Shopify integration. Learn more.

July 2021

APIs

  • Launched Phone Intelligence 4.0 – added network features to our Phone Intelligence API (first seen days, last seen days, phone popularity, velocity and volatility).

June 2021

Identity Engine

  • Released DV41: this update to our underlying data engine includes: regular data refreshes (consumer and business) across all regions – APAC, EMEA, NAM and LATAM.

APIs

  • Phone line validation improvements: we improved line type and carrier qualifications and coverage.

Pro Insight

  • Released Deep Link Builder Code Refresh & Merchant Review Support: the newest version of the Deep Link Builder comes with an enhanced design, SSO login support (in addition to username/password option) and support for Microsoft Edge users (in addition to Chrome).

May 2021

Identity Engine

  • Released DV40.

APIs

  • Released Address validation improvements, focused on countries in APAC.
    Updated API documentation for Address Risk API v4.1.

April 2021

Identity Engine

  • Released phone validation improvements for UK phone numbers.

APIs

  • Released Ekata’s new Merchant Onboarding API.
    Released Address Risk API v4.1 with new Address Risk Score.

Pro Insight

  • Released the new ‘Merchant Review’ experience in Pro Insight.

March 2021

Identity Engine

  • Released DV39
  • Improved our internal name matching logic, to increase match rates on certain attributes

APIs

  • Released phone-to-name match improvements for Account Opening API.
  • Deployed Phone Intelligence API to our Singapore and Frankfurt data centers.

February 2021

Identity Engine

  • Released DV38
  • Improved our internal name matching logic, to increase match rates on certain attributes

APIs

  • Released V2 of Network Score
  • Deployed Account Opening API to our Singapore and Frankfurt data centers.

Pro Insight

  • Released V2 of Network Score
  • Released V3 of the Network Risk Panel
  • Released minor improvements to Groups feature

January 2021

Identity Engine

  • Completed migration to the new model for all customers
  • Completed testing of the new network score v2 infrastructure in preparation of Network Score v2 release in Q1, 2021

APIs

  • Released Point in time testing support for Network score V2 and IDC

Pro Insight

  • Released Groups feature for all the customers
  • Completed internal management features

December 2020

Identity Engine

  • Started to test the new Network Score V2 infrastructure
  • Reduced latencies for Network Score calculations

APIs

  • Improved name matching algorithms for APAC names

Pro Insight

  • Released Beta version of Groups feature
  • Fixed bugs with Groups feature

NOVEMBER 2020

Identity Engine

  • Completed initial infrastructure for Network Score v2
  • Released DV37

APIs

  • Minor enhancements to Account Opening API
  • Improved name matching algorithms for APAC names

Pro Insight

  • Completed development work on Groups feature

OCTOBER 2020

Data Center

  • Released new data center in Singapore with Transaction Risk and Address Risk products

Identity Engine

  • Renamed confidence score to identity score across products
  • Updated address validation for US/CA
  • Initial infrastructure for network score v2

APIs

  • Bug fixes to Address Risk and Transaction Risk 2.0
  • Documentation updates

Pro Insight

  • Enabled international click throughs on Address Search pages
  • Initial infrastructure for groups feature

SEPTEMBER 2020

Identity Engine

  • Released Data Version 36 – the latest installment of updated links between names and identity elements
  • Made various platform improvements to machine learning processes

APIs

  • Launched version 4 of Address Risk API (previously known as Address Validation API)

Pro Insight

  • Released an update to ReCAPTCHA logic to improve login security
  • Updated our sign-up form to simplify self-service trials

AUGUST 2020

Identity Engine

  • Released Confidence Score v7 and side-by-side model release capabilities
  • Released Data Version 35 – the latest installment of updated links between names and identity elements

APIs

  • Stabilized Transaction Risk latencies in our European deployment
  • Improved logic for address validity in multiple geographies
  • Make API documentation more responsive for different browser windows

Pro Insight

  • Released Model Management, a module for administrative users to toggle model versions and view score distributions
  • Released updates to the Network Risk panel to include element highlighting and attribute type information, per customer feedback
  • Enabled unit-of-measure (miles-kilometers) toggling in the map panel
  • Enabled the passing of secondary phone inputs from URL to Confidence Score and Network Risk

JULY 2020

Identity Engine

  • Refreshed United States, France, and UK entities and linkages
  • Updated our address validation library for increased accuracy in historical and current global addresses validation
  • Refreshed our Freight Forwarder address list

APIs

  • Improved German & Dutch name matching capabilities

Pro Insight

  • Added Transaction Risk API to query usage reports

Bug Fixes

  • Resolved an issue with duplicate zip+4 codes in Pro Insight
  • Modified explainer text for same-day email first seen measurements

JUNE 2020

Identity Engine

  • Various platform improvements to our machine learning processes

APIs

  • Updated our global phone validation libraries
  • Updated API developer documentation
  • Retired TLS 1.1 and associated ciphers

Pro Insight

  • Launched the new Network Risk panel to all customers
  • Refactored Identity Review and search pages to React.js
  • Removed legacy API products from the API trial dashboard

MAY 2020

Identity Engine

  • Automated some internal processes to improve our ingestion pipeline
  • Ran some data science experiments to investigate enhancements to scores

Pro Insight

  • Iterated on the beta Network Risk panel based on customer feedback

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with email domain validation in Identity Check API, Transaction Risk API, and Pro Insight

APRIL 2020

Identity Engine

  • Released a new IP Risk model to improve the predictive power of your IP Risk flag by 39% while reducing the false positive rate by 29%. The result of this updated model is available in Identity Check API, Transaction Risk API, and Pro Insight.
  • Released global email-to-name coverage improvements across all products.

Pro Insight

  • Released a beta version of the new Network Risk Panel to provide an overall risk indicator, more predictive strength signals, and a better user experience.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with ambiguous US city names and state codes.

MARCH 2020

Other

  • Bug fixes
  • Data updates

FEBRUARY 2020

Other

  • Various bug fixes

JANUARY 2020

Other

  • Various bug fixes
  • Documentation updates

DECEMBER 2019

Pro Insight

  • Added Deep Link builder with support for transaction id

Other

  • Released Network score infrastructure updates for January release in Transaction Risk API
  • Updated API documentation

 

NOVEMBER 2019

Security

  • Various security updates

Network

  • Enabled the ability to add network score to Transaction Risk
  • Ignore incomplete address when calculating network score
  • Enhanced engineering alerting for network

Pro Insight

  • Removed old branding from inconspicuous pages and changed generated reports names to Ekata

Availability

  • Scaled up and tested services for the high load during the holidays

Usage Reports

  • Added date selector calendar in place of month and year dropdown for usage reports. Usage can be generated up to 31 days at a time from the past 90 days

DV31 Release

  • Enhanced and added more residential and business data in the Americas and EMEA

OCTOBER 2019

DV 30 Release

  • Enhanced and added more residential and business data in the Americas and EMEA.

Pro Insight

  • Changed the displayed text for IP Proxy Risk to IP Risk

Bug Fixes

  • Various bug fixes

Address

  • Updated address validation library

SEPTEMBER 2019

Authentication

  • Cross domain sharing so that customer can access the Whitepages Pro site and new Ekata site

SSO

  • Added support for Ekata

Pro Insight Rebrand

  • Rebranded emails, introduced new Ekata site, app.ekata.devel, deep link builder

EU Data Center

  • Service improvements
  • Reduced response time for EU datacenter requests

Infrastructure

  • Increased API rate limit options

Network

  • Enhancements to networks signals

Documentation

  • Updated API URLs used in samples and rebranded logo

Bug Fixes

  • Various Bug Fixes