Today we’re launching our biggest update: CostPerform 2025.2, our second major release this year. It introduces the next-generation, fully rebuilt Insights 2.0 with interactive visuals, smarter filters, and built-in analytics to make analysis and reporting easier. Everyday work is faster, and loop calculations finish sooner on a modern, secure foundation.
Overview of Insights 2.0 interactive dashboard
“First responses to the new Insights are very enthusiastic, so we have high hopes of getting our customers to obtain more value from CostPerform.” — Bert-Jan de Gier, CTO of CostPerform
Spotlight: Insights 2.0
Insights has been completely renewed to make analysis and reporting in the CostPerform Portal faster, richer, and more intuitive. You’ll notice:
- A bigger visual toolbox. From classics like bar, line, and combo charts to gauges, financial visuals (OHLC, Candlestick), and maps (Choropleth, Scatter Map for geo-plotted data), you can dashboards to fit the story you need to tell.
- Interactive, connected dashboards. Link visualizations so a selection in one chart can take you straight to a deeper view in another, ideal for guiding stakeholders from overview to detail with a single click.
- Smarter filters. Create page-level filters including date pickers with handy presets like this Month or Year to Date to keep dashboards focused and relevant for every audience.
- Built-in analytics. Apply time-series forecasts, linear regression, and outlier detection directly in Insights to surface trends and anomalies without exporting to third-party tools.
New chart types and statistical filtering options available with Insights 2.0
Coming from our previous release where we introduced major BI capabilities, Insights 2.0 is a big step up in flexibility and speed so you can build Power BI-style dashboards right where your cost and performance data lives.
Other improvements
Performance that keeps up
Modeling teams will notice crisper responsiveness in heavy scenarios. In particular, Loop calculation now runs faster, reducing turnaround time on iterative analyses and complex models.
UX & Quality-of-Life improvements
Small changes, big daily wins:
- Refreshed client UI for a cleaner feel.
- Pivot fields now have a sensible default width (long names no longer take over the screen).
- Search behaves better when multiple layers share the same name.
- Clearer ETL authoring: warnings if you reuse an element name, and a right-click paste action on the ETL canvas.
- No need to download a new Launcher after updating, one less maintenance step.
ETL updates developers will appreciate
To avoid collisions with column names, the ETL variable {date} has been replaced by {date:now}. This ensures models that include a “date” column in a Column Definition keep working as intended.
User management
Admins can now grant other User Spaces access to the Default User Space’s Secured Sandbox right from the client, making governance easier without scripting detours.
What else is new?
This release includes 13 new/improved functions and 39 bug fixes across the platform. For the complete list, check the readme.txt in your installation folder or on the download page. Additionally, we’ve also raised our baseline to Java 21 and updated core components (WildFly 36.0.1, Webswing 25.1.3) for a modern, secure foundation.
Get more from 2025.2:
- Build dashboards on the fly for leadership updates and operational monitoring.
- Visualize cost flows across layers to pinpoint drivers and optimize spend.
- Share securely within your organization, no exporting or context switching required.
Want to learn more?
If you’re on-prem, contact your admin about updating to 2025.2. SaaS environments roll out on our standard cadence, watch your portal notifications for the exact timing. Join our live product webinar – Introducing Insights on Dec 4 to help your team get the most from CostPerform 2025.2.
We can’t wait to see what you build with Insights 2.0!
