What's New - August 2025

Distributed simulations can now run with memory-efficient paging. Previously available only for single runs, this enhancement improves scalability for large datasets while optimizing compute credit consumption.

Unified Dashboard Access

All outputs, including charts, maps, and reports, are now presented in a consolidated dashboard view. This change shortens review cycles and promotes cross-functional alignment by giving every stakeholder a consistent lens to view results.

Integration and Automation

This release improves reliability across cloud workflows by adding validation messages for infrastructure-related failures during cloning, changeset creation, and study creation. These messages provide clear, actionable feedback to help users identify issues early and reduce sync failures across collaborative modeling tasks.

Analytics

This release brings enhancements for analytics users. Users can now visualize better with new map layering functionality on the solutions page, thus allowing users to reorder data cards, bar charts, and heat maps for clearer spatial analysis. Add nodal analysis layouts to dashboards for deeper congestion insights by combining congestion data with other simulation outputs in a unified view. Improve readability with conditional exponential formatting in nodal analysis, which automatically converts large or highly precise numeric values to scientific notation. These updates enhance how users view, interpret, and communicate results across congestion and scenario analysis workflows.

Simulation

The simulation page now displays changeset version, average memory, and CPU usage for each run. Users can access full simulation records directly from solution cards using the view simulation button. CLI download performance has also been improved for pre- and post-processing tasks, enabling faster, more reliable automation.

Study Management and Storage

Users can now access Datahub directly from the PLEXOS® Cloud interface, eliminating the need for external links. Changeset version numbers and details are also shown upfront in the study dropdown, making it easier to track version history and ensure model accuracy.

PLEXOS® Cloud Excel Add-in

Enter multiple date from/date to entries for time-varying properties, with each treated as a unique input. One-to-one membership fields now feature dropdowns for faster, error-free selection. Validation checks have been added to the datafile query config table to flag issues early. When switching studies, users can now choose whether to clear or retain loaded sheets, supporting better comparison workflows and reducing the risk of accidental data loss.

Central License Manager

A new “Standard User” license is now available for users who need access to the platform but do not run simulations, consolidating non-simulation roles into a single license type. Contract expiry notifications are now shown in-platform and via email to alert administrators ahead of renewal deadlines. Nodal data sets are now synchronized at the account level, ensuring consistent access across all permitted users in the tenant without manual user-level assignment.

DataHub

DataHub is the cloud-native storage and access layer for the platform. It centralizes input data, simulation results, metadata, and study artifacts in a structured, governed space that is tightly integrated with PLEXOS® workflows and tagging via the Data Catalog.

With DataHub, users can use the CLI to upload, download, delete, search, and organize reusable assets, then prepare inputs for simulations. This improves repeatability and collaboration, giving teams shorter time to results, clear lineage on every file, and a reliable backbone for daily Marketplace updates.