What's New in BackOffice Associates® Solutions 6.5.3

Version 6.5.3 contains various fixes to existing features, including:

 

Fiori

Display and visualize the key activities in a Data Migration given a single pane of glass view into the status of the migration by deploying the Fiori add-on into your SAP HANA Cloud Platform (HCP) account. Using the Fiori user interface, the key metrics of the migration are extracted from the DSP® and displayed using Fiori. These metrics and details can be viewed on a mobile device as well as a workstation and have complete drill-through capabilities directly into dspMigrate™.

Map

A user can profile a source data source on the Vertical View of the Target Sources page or an Update Row source data source on the Vertical View of the Target Sources (Update Row) page. Once the profile has run, the user can view the profile results such as record counts, unique values, or field data types.

Target Design

A new Visibility column has been added for both Natural and Utility fields. Setting the visibility determines whether a field is available to be mapped on the source or target pages. Refer to Set Visibility for Mapping of Target and Source Fields and Set Visibility for Appended Utility Columns for more information.

Transform

Transform provides measurable advantages in the Data Preparation phase of a data migration project. The tool cleans, manipulates and reports on data, and exports the data so that it can be loaded into a target ERP system using a load tool.

Use Transform to register target rules, target remediation rules, and target reports. Transform also creates Target Source rules and Target Source reports. A user can audit updates to target data as a result of rule processing, debug rules and reports, and view dashboards that display a count of active source rules, source reports, target rules and target reports by Wave and Process Area; the number of processes running for reports broken out by report type; and the count of changes to all object types in the Wave and Process Area.

Access to report data can be controlled at the report level by restricting access to reports, or through user filters assigned to a report.

Refer to Transform for more information.

dspCompose™

A user can access the black dspCompose Requests tab on the Quick Panel to navigate among active requests for which the logged in user has access. Refer to Use the dspCompose Requests tab for Quick Access to Request Details for more information.

Data Stewardship Platform (DSP)®

Common

Profiling

Profiling is a quick and easy method to perform an assessment of data contained within a database. The goal of data profiling is to save hours of research effort by listing all database information in one location. It is important to note that data profiling does not replace viewing and analyzing data, but is considered a value-added activity for reporting to the client and can provide useful information at the beginning of a Data Migration project.

The following elements are available for all profiled databases:

  • A list of all tables in the database
  • A list of all columns within each table with defined Data Type, Length and Table Order
  • A frequency distribution of values for each column
  • A minimum and maximum value for each column
  • A number of blank, null or empty values for each column
  • Indication of unused tables and fields

Duplicate Detection

The duplicate detection feature provides an easy method to identify and resolve duplicate data. After the user creates and register the objects (tables and views) that contain the data to be analyzed for duplication, the process finds potential duplicate data and displays it on a results page. The user can configure this results page as needed. The user reviews the results and identifies duplicate records to decide if the record is a true duplicate, if the record must be reset, or if the record is not a duplicate.

Integrate

  • A user can configure After Post rules that run after the process template executes successfully and before the next process template begins processing (if posting with a multi-template process)After a process template that has an After Post rule registered posts successfully, the data is passed to the next dependent process template as an input parameter. Refer to Register After Post Rules to a Process Template for more information.
  • The SAP Data Services Job  template type has been added to Integrate. It uses a Data Services Job (consisting of a Data Services Repository and a job name) when posting request data to a target system. Refer to Post Data Using an SAP Data Services Job for more information.
  • A user can add a Custom template in Integrate for posting to any application. Refer to Post Data Using a Custom Template for more information.

Resolved Issues

Target Design and Map

An issue occurred when syncing a target between Target Design and Map. After an initial sync, if the sync process was run again, the process took longer than expected to complete. Updates were made to correct the issue, and the second time a sync process runs, it now completes in an acceptable amount of time. [DSP-7309]

Data Stewardship Platform (DSP)®

  • An issue occurred when the Validation icon was clicked and the pop-up window contained no errors. With this fix, the pop-up window displays with any and all validation errors. [DCR-579]

 

WARNING: Customizations made to any component of thedelivered BackOffice Associates® Solutions will be overwritten in the next upgrade. To preserve customizations, make a copy of the customizations prior to applying any upgrade.

A customization is a change to the underlying source code, which differs from configuration – normal setup of the software, such as setting up workflows and defining parameters via the configuration pages.

Previous VersionsPrevious Versions

NOTE: A 6.4 version of BackOffice Associates® Solutions was not released. The immediately prior release to 6.5 was version 6.3.1.