Product update

❄️ Late Winter 2026: A More Connected, More Intuitive Platform

Shared by Quin • March 11, 2026

Hi there,

This is an interim Late Winter release, with our full End of Winter release planned for March 20th. This update delivers a substantial set of improvements worth getting into your hands now: a suite of UI enhancements that make building pipelines, workflows, and transformations faster and more intuitive, major expansions to Connector Copilot that push the boundaries of what you can connect to and how confidently you can do it, and significantly expanded Anaplan data source support. New transformation types and workflow automation via API round out a release built to remove roadblocks and expand possibilities.

🏗️ A More Intuitive Platform Experience

This release brings a focused set of improvements to the core platform UI, driven directly by user feedback. Each change targets a friction point in the everyday build experience.

Pipeline Builder: Insert Transformations Anywhere

Building and refining pipelines is now significantly faster. A new transformation panel with dedicated insertion controls lets you add steps between existing transformations, not just at the end. "+" buttons appear between each step in both desktop and mobile views, giving you a consistent, unified way to insert logic at any point in your pipeline.

Workflow Builder: Streamlined Setup and Navigation

The Workflow Builder has been redesigned to reduce unnecessary tab-switching and surface the information you need faster.

Setup and Datasets are now combined into a single streamlined page, eliminating unnecessary navigation
Pipelines, Schedules, and Outputs have been redesigned with a cleaner card-style table layout for a more organized and polished experience
Supporting pipelines now default to hidden with a clean enable/disable toggle, reducing visual noise until you need them
Call-to-action components have been added to each workflow section (Schedules, Executions, etc.) to guide progression and reduce the "now what?" moment for new users

Formula Editor: Column Tokens for Calculated Fields

The calculated column formula editor now supports interactive column tokens. Type $ in any formula field to trigger a searchable dropdown of available columns. Selecting a column inserts it as a styled token directly inline in your formula, making it easy to build expressions like Revenue / Headcount without worrying about exact column name syntax or spacing.

🔌 Connector Copilot: Built for Every API

This release expands significantly what Connector Copilot can handle, with new capabilities that address real-world API complexity, from edge cases in OAuth flows to non-tabular data formats to confidence in what you're actually pulling before you commit to a dataset.

Advanced Configuration Access

Power users and those with API-level knowledge of their source systems can now access the advanced configuration settings directly within the Connector Copilot Dataset Builder. This provides full visibility into how Copilot is extracting data from an external system, including how nested objects are flattened. Intelligent defaults handle the vast majority of cases, but edge cases that require adjustments are now fully accessible without abandoning the Copilot experience.

Intelligent Data Detection and Interactive Preview

Connector Copilot now automatically detects when an API response returns non-tabular data and surfaces guided resolution options, so users aren't left debugging raw API payloads on their own. Before finalizing any dataset, an interactive preview shows a live sample of the records being pulled. Use natural language to refine the request in real time, and Copilot updates the configuration and re-previews the output instantly.

Custom OAuth Parameters via Key-Value Pairs

OAuth configurations in Connector Copilot now support custom key-value authorization parameters, unlocking connectivity with APIs that require additional query parameters beyond the standard OAuth fields.

A clear example is Google BigQuery, which requires access_type=offline and prompt=consent in the authorization request in order to return a refresh token. Without these, a connection authenticates successfully on first use but silently breaks after 60 minutes when the access token expires, with no mechanism for the platform to refresh it.

The Connector Copilot UI now provides a dedicated key-value pair interface in addition to the existing fields for Authorization URL, Token URL, Client ID, Client Secret, and Scopes. Any API that requires custom parameters in the authorization request can now be configured accurately, enabling persistent, self-refreshing connections.

📅 New Transformation: Parse Date

Nexadata now includes a dedicated Parse Date transformation that converts raw date strings and numeric timestamps into clean, timezone-aware date fields.

How It Works

When configuring a Parse Date step, you can:

Select from common date format patterns, or specify a custom format string
Convert Unix epoch timestamps, with support for both seconds and milliseconds precision
Set a target timezone using a searchable timezone selector, ensuring dates are correctly localized for downstream use

This transformation is especially useful when working with API data that returns dates as integers, inconsistent string formats, or UTC values that need to be shifted to a local time zone before loading.

📄 View full documentation →

🚀 Execute and Monitor Workflows via the API

Workflows can now be triggered and monitored programmatically via the Nexadata REST API.

New Endpoints

POST /api/v1/workflows/:id/execute — Initiates an async workflow execution and returns a confirmation that the job has been queued
GET /api/v1/workflows/:id/executions/:executionId — Polls the status of a running or completed execution

Authorization is enforced at the organization level. Only users belonging to the workflow's associated org can trigger or monitor its executions. This enables Nexadata to be embedded in broader automation pipelines, triggered by upstream events, or scheduled via external orchestrators.

📄 View full API documentation →

📊 Extended Anaplan Application Data Sources

For organizations using Anaplan for connected planning, maintaining visibility into user activity and platform changes is critical for security and compliance. Until now, extracting and formatting Anaplan audit data into a reportable format required custom scripting and significant manual effort. Nexadata eliminates that complexity.

The Anaplan connector now supports a significantly expanded set of data sources, accessible directly from the Dataset Builder, purpose-built to surface audit and administrative data in a clean, human-readable format. User identification, activity timestamps, event types, and action descriptions are captured in a consistent, structured dataset that is immediately ready for filtering, sorting, and analysis.

New Data Source Types

Users can now select an Export Type when configuring an Anaplan dataset:

Events — Audit event data with configurable time intervals and automatic pagination
Users — User records for access visibility and activity reporting
Workspaces — Workspace metadata with full tenant detail
CloudWorks Jobs — Integration job data for monitoring and audit purposes
Models — Available models within a selected workspace
Imports, Exports, Actions, Processes, and Files — Model-level administrative data

📄 View full documentation →

🧱 Platform Fixes

ENG-853 – Bug Fix: The secondary dataset column dropdown in Join transformations now populates correctly.
ENG-857 – Bug Fix: Record order in map previews is now consistent when clicking through results.
ENG-859 – Bug Fix: Pipelines with mismatched mapping group line items now surface a descriptive error instead of a generic internet error.
ENG-863 – Bug Fix: The $ column reference popup and decimal precision controls in calculated fields have both been restored.
ENG-865 – Bug Fix: Entering invalid formula syntax no longer corrupts the pipeline step. It remains editable rather than requiring deletion and recreation.
ENG-866 – Bug Fix: The division operator (/) in Insert Column calculated value formulas no longer throws a syntax error.
ENG-868 – Bug Fix: Renamed columns in supporting pipelines now correctly appear in the join dropdown, rather than showing their pre-rename names.

🔭 What's Next

Some of the capabilities below will look familiar from the Mid-Winter release notes. That's intentional. These aren't items that fell off the roadmap. They are central to the direction Nexadata is heading, and we're committed to shipping them. The End of Winter release on March 20th will continue to advance this work.

Here's what we're building:

Multi-Request API Support in Connector Copilot: Automatically handle APIs that require multiple sequential requests to retrieve a complete dataset, including async job-based extractions where data preparation happens server-side before results are available
Metadata-Aware Dataset Configuration: Connector Copilot will automatically discover and use metadata APIs to populate dropdown options and provide guided field selection during dataset creation, so users see real values and labels rather than raw identifiers like GUIDs
Natural Language Mapping Groups: Create and iteratively edit standalone mapping groups entirely through natural language prompts, bringing full parity with the pipeline natural language workflow
Holistic Pipeline Editing with Artifacts: Refine and revise entire pipelines conversationally with artifact support, enabling broader iterative changes beyond transformation-by-transformation updates
Pipeline Versioning: A snapshot of each pipeline is automatically captured at execution time, enabling better audit tracking and making it easier to understand exactly how a pipeline was configured at any point in time

Thanks for being part of the Nexadata journey.

— The Nexadata Team