The Talis Decisions Universes V5 are available from the download area of the Talis Decisions site. These are primarily intended to complement the Alto 5 release. They do also include a number of improvements. These are detailed in the Release notice, but one significant improvement is in the area of rotations. Compare the Stock Rotation class in Universes up to version 4.3 with the Stock Rotation class in Version 5:

Version 4.3	Version 5

These changes should make it easier to write reports which show what items are in which patterns and where they are.

Note also that these Universes are available for Talis Decisions powered by BusinessObjects XI R2 and for Talis Decisions powered by BusinessObjects XI R3.1. They are not available for earlier versions.

As ever, please do let us know how you get on with these new Universes: and if you need assistance (e.g.. in writing a suite of rotation reports), or to arrange an upgrade from 5i so that you can use these new Universes,  please speak to your account manager.