Pega Platform 8.1 Release Features

This release of Pega Platform™ furthers Pega’s mission of building for change, automating from end to end, and engaging without limits. Highlights include a contextual authoring environment with Studios, the ability to collaborate across applications with Spaces, management of data integrations in a single place, an Intelligent Virtual Assistant that can now decipher emails with file attachments, and quicker deployments with improved DevOps and automated testing.

The target audience for this course is anyone who is building a Pega 8.x application and has 3-6 months experience working in a Pega 7.x environment.

This course covers new features in the Pega Platform 8.1 Release including the new App Studio, Dev Studio, Prediction Studio, and Admin Studio, Case Management social enhancements, DevOps Deployment Manager, Conversational Channels Email Portal, Decisioning and Natural Language Processing (NLP) enhancements, and the Integration Designer. This course is most valuable for those who have had at least 3 months working in a Pega 7.x environment.

Course Outline

1. Release Themes

   • Themes of the Pega Platform 8.1 Release

2. Studios

   • Purpose and usage of the four Pega Platform Studios
   • How to navigate the Pega Platform

3. Case Management

   • Case Management enhancements - Pega Platform 8.1

4. Data and Integration

   • Data and Integration enhancements - Pega Platform 8.1
   • How to visualize data with the Integration Designer
   • How to create an externally sourced data type

5. User Experience

   • UI enhancements - Pega Platform 8.1

6. Decision Management

   • Decision Management enhancements - Pega Platform 8.1

7. Conversational Channels/IVA

   • Conversational Channels enhancements - Pega Platform 8.1

8. DevOps

   • DevOps enhancements - Pega Platform 8.1

9. Engine

   • Engine enhancements - Pega Platform 8.1

10. Check your Knowledge

    • Pega Platform 8.1 Release - Knowledge Check