Release 97

Business Opportunity

Following validation and a basic data integrity review using the export JSON views, a number of minor corrections and enhancements have been applied to the Business Opportunity view suite.

busopp_meta_codes_NA

  • Improved handling of Won/Lost Reason descriptions to safely support special characters and JSON formatting.
  • This change improves data reliability and reduces the risk of downstream processing issues.

busopp_meta_codes_UKS

  • Added Currency Code attribute to support enhanced currency reporting and analysis.

busopp_meta_dates_UKS

busopp_meta_dates_UKS_archive

  • Reinstated the ENETRED date attribute alongside ENTERED.
  • This change preserves backward compatibility with existing reports while supporting the transition to the corrected ENTERED attribute.
  • ENETRED is now marked for future retirement.

Customer

customer_core_details_UKS

  • Updated customer source logic to use DIM_CUSTOMER_OL.
  • Validation identified that COMPANY_CUSTOMER records are only created following invoicing activity, resulting in approximately 33% of customer names and codes being unavailable.
  • This change improves customer coverage and completeness across reporting.

Archive Views

busopp_core_details_UKS_archive

employee_core_details_UKS_archive

project_core_details_UKS_archive

  • Corrected a JSON formatting issue affecting project code values within archived history records.
  • Improves consistency and reliability of historical data retrieval.

Employee & Person

employee_meta_codes_UKS

person_meta_codes_UKS

  • Introduced the revised Role Name pattern to support ongoing standardisation of role-based attributes across the Common Data Model.

person_core_details_UKS

person_meta_codes_UKS

person_meta_dates_UKS

  • Established PERSON_ID as the initial identifier for the People domain.
  • This provides a practical and consistent foundation based on currently available source data.
  • While PERSON_ID is recognised as not being a fully governed enterprise identifier, it provides sufficient coverage to support initial reporting requirements.
  • Future enhancements remain possible should a more controlled identity model be required.

person_core_details

person_meta_codes

person_meta_dates

  • Published full historical (PCW) collated views following acceptance of the PERSON_ID approach for UKS reporting.

Resource

resource_item_codes_activity

resource_item_values_activity

  • Introduced new Resource Activity collated views.
  • These views standardise Resource and Employee-related activity attributes to support more consistent reporting and analysis across resource-based datasets.

Summary

This release focuses on:

  • Improved customer data completeness.
  • Enhanced currency reporting support.
  • Continued standardisation of role and identity modelling.
  • Improved archive data quality.
  • Introduction of new resource activity reporting views.
  • Backward compatibility support for existing Business Opportunity reporting.

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