Release Notes 2.8

New features and functionalities

• Parallel data processing in the backend which significantly improves refresh performance.
• Configure scenarios in CCH Tagetik to process in full instead of per period to improve refresh times even more.
• Amounts and journals (adjustments) combined in a single partition in Power BI to guarantee data integrity.
• Currency conversion on the fly for any of your CCH Tagetik configured currencies.
• Travel back and forth in time using the new Time span functionality. Select a range of periods and analyze your financial data over time with the click of a button.
• Non-Scalable feature: have all your KPIs that should not be scaled (such as FTEs) displayed correctly without scaling.
• Lock individual comments in the commenting app as an individual user.
• Lock a group of comments in the commenting app as an administrator.

Enhancements

• Start Logging step in ADF before starting Databricks cluster to give instant feedback after initiating refresh.
• Functionality to display comments without considering the FST Schema filter
• Functionality to display comments without considering the FST Schema and Screen Name filters
• Added by default parameter fields:
  • Periods
  • Periods Rolling
  • Periods Time Span
  • Dimensions
  • Scenario References + delta’s + delta %
• “related-to” elements in entity segments moved to ‘other/cons’ buckets
• “related-to” elements in dimension 2 segments moved to ‘other/cons’ buckets

Bug fixes

• “Empty” FST Accounts Account parent items populated with dummy record instead of its own fst account code.
• Inconsequent logging in Azure Data Factory to real-time refresh logging dataset fixed
• Time Intelligence bug on “Previous Period” fixed
• Time Intelligence bug Last 12 Months fixed
• Local Currencies were not transposed correctly, this has been fixed.
• Parent-child hierarchy for Accounts was not transposed correctly, this has been fixed

Release Notes 2.7

New features and functionalities

• Out of the box Analytical Information Hub module
• Administration dashboard
  • Get refresh times per scenario-period
  • Get refresh times per dimension
  • See the volume of every scenario-period combination in the dataset
  • See how you’ve configured your scenario references logic
• Comments stored in CCH Tagetik available in cpmVision modelSet screen definitions via commenting app

Enhancements

• Added functionalities to Power app
  • Remove data from dataset
  • Configure pre-calculated currencies
  • Configure pre-calculated constant currencies
  • Analytical Information Hub interface
• Improved FST formula parser to support more FST items by default
• Rolling commenting
• Other stock accounts in YTD

Release Notes 2.6

New features and functionalities

• Single table refresh functionality in the refresh app
• Full year and periodic selection in the refresh app
• Advanced FST as selectable item (which can lead to drastic performance increase for non-Advanced FSTs)
• Amounts Intercompany derived from CCH Tagetik and part of cpmVision datamodel
• Exchange Rates derived from CCH Tagetik and part of cpmVision datamodel
• Improved Time Intelligence based on CCH Tagetik logic and functionality
• Weeks are now fully supported in the cpmVision datamodel

Enhancements

• Improved sorting in FST Accounts dimension
• Attributes from Tagetik carried over for Dimension 1 to 5, Entities and Scenarios
• Origin from fact tables carried over for data analysis
• Improved deployment tooling (Bicep, DevOps library)
• Improved technical documentation
• Better streamlined metadata and configuration approach in Azure
• Scenario Previous as a separate table to select

Bug fixes

• Naming conventions on Entity Counterparts fixed
• Naming conventions on Dimension 2 Counterparts fixed
• Naming conventions on Dimension 2 Segments fixed

Release Notes 2.5

New features and functionalities

• FX Rates
• Local Currencies
• Microsoft Bicep deployment
• OAuth2.0 authentication by default
• Full deployment from Azure Devops
• Scenario References
• FST Accounts in Python
• Principal of least privilege on service principals
• Managed identities in Azure for authentication where possible
• cpmVision dashboard starter kit
  • Commenting solution
  • Visual Definitions and Screen Definitions input
• Dimension 2 Segments
• Orchestration in Azure Data Factory is now fully metadata driven
• Deployment of Databricks notebooks from Azure ETL Builder
• cpmVision ETL Admin PowerApp is now able to refresh just the FSTs.

Enhancements

• Financial transformation: 1 notebook per final table instead of 3 for adjustments, amounts, adjustments consolidated, amounts consolidated
• Currency table showing only those currencies present in the datamodel
• Databricks cluster wake-up notebook to prevent cluster deletion after period of inactivity

Bug fixes

• ADF - Scenario Periodo PREP and Process Scenario Extract mapping create the same table
• Entity Segments Sorting was not correct
• Fixed incorrect Dimension 2 Code Counterpart naming and relationships in datamodel
• Wrong authentication methods on ADF deployment
• Importing tables in Databricks could cause a table to go in broken state. This has been adjusted.