A wide variety of Product Master Data Management (PMDM), Customer Master Data Management , Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and platform enhancements were implemented with the 9.3 release.
Some functionality is controlled via component activation, which may include licenses and/or component installations, and may not be available on a particular system. Questions should be directed to your Stibo Systems account manager or partner manager.
Product Master Data Management (PMDM)
- New machine learning-powered functionality enables automatic classification of products. A machine-learning algorithm can be trained on existing classification assignments and subsequently integrated into existing onboarding workflows to automatically classify products, which is beneficial in regards to product onboarding efficiency and fast time to market.
- The first business module for Stibo Systems' PIM for Retail offering (formerly Product MDM / PMDM for Retail), Product Content Management, is now available. PIM for Retail is a ready-to-use, customizable starter pack that allows organizations to acquire, manage, and share product data from a variety of internal and external systems with their customers and value chain partners.
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
- Support for conditional mandatory attributes on references is now available. This helps suppliers provide complete responses to product requirements and quality testing thresholds.
- PLM to PMDM launch supports the transformation of the distributed model for handling product specifications, supplier responses to a final recipe library, and sellable items in PMDM, so that enrichment for selling the items can begin. This solution includes a sample Web UI that allows PMDM users to view detailed information that was collected during the product specification process.
- Suppliers can now get a record of their specification response that they submit to the customer when they respond to a bid for a private label product.
Customer Master Data Management
- Enhanced data modeling, privileges, processes, integration, and usability to better support centralized MDM scenarios with a particular focus on B2B Customer MDM use cases, including:
- New and improved data container editor to promote centralized MDM with applicability across product lines to support line-of-business specific relations and improve user experience. Additionally, data container display settings can be configured globally and propagated where needed, making data container configuration easier, faster, and reusable.
- Advanced capabilities for the identification and consolidation of data across disparate data sources, enabling the delivery of a single view of customer master data through enhanced intelligent survivorship rules.
Also, multidomain functionality includes these changes to the platform:
- A new visual integration with Microsoft Power BI has been added to Stibo Systems' array of analytics offerings. This integration allows users to view and interact with Power BI reports, dashboards, and tiles in the Web UI, providing a new option to analyze and take action on data from both STEP (the MDM platform) and external systems in a seamless interface.
- Open platform improvements include the addition of REST API V2 resource operations for workflows and data container references, the extension and updates to the STEPXML XSDs, and functionality enhancements for ImportChangeInfo.
- Various product enhancements and user experience improvements include image watermarking capabilities upon export, new metric types for improved data sufficiency, UI improvements (e.g., 'what you see is what you get' export capabilities for tables), and improved workflow rules supporting workflow mandatory references.
This document is intended for use by active platform users and partners and describes the above and other new functionality and improvements in greater detail. It does not serve as a replacement for the Online Help, which includes additional information on previously existing and new system functionality, as well as more detailed explanations and step-by-step instructions for use, when appropriate.
- New Visual Integration with Power BI
- New Auto Classification via Machine Learning
- New PIM for Retail Product Content Management Business Module
- PDS Integration Enhancements
- Customer MDM Enhancements
- New Features for PLM
- New Conditional Capabilities in Multi-Reference Editor for PLM
- Data Profiling Enhancements
- Data Exchange Enhancements and Changes
- Web UI Enhancements
- Additional Enhancements and Changes
- Enhancement Requests
- API Enhancements and Updates
- Platform and Software Support Changes
- Miscellaneous Bugfixes
In addition to the individual release notes, upgrading customers should read the 9.3 Upgrade Guide here.
If / when applicable at the time of your installation, read the maintenance patch notes for 9.3 to understand the full scope of changes for the 9.3 release.
Installation Recipe
The baseline can be installed using this command:
spot --upgrade=step:9.3
See the SPOT Program documentation for help doing the STEP upgrade and installing add-on components here.
Contact your Stibo Systems account manager or your partner manager for additional information on upgrading or installing the 9.3 release.