KNIME AP / Business Hub backwards compatibility

Hello

I’ve been working with KNIME for a while now and keeping tabs on the new updates.

We’re porting a lot of reports (some pretty extensive) from Hyperion to KNIME.

We’re extracting and manipulating a lot of data from our ERP for our daily business, so working reports and exports are crucial.

Does anyone have any experience on backwards compatibility with KNIME?

The IT person responsible for KNIME backtracked from his plan to update the AP and Business Hub regularly, now he either updates it when something breaks or “he feels like it”.

Now I’m a bit concerned that when we actually decide or have to update our workflows will break.

We’re currently still on 5.2.4 and while I can understand that updating can break things too I feel we’re missing out on a lot of new features (eg. the new Expression node, Row Filter with multiple criteria etc.).

Our IT also won’t help us with broken workflows so if they decide to “break things” by updating we’re going to be stuck with 100+ workflows not running.

Thanks