Some of the highlights of the 10.1 release include updates in the following areas:
- Multitenant Software as a Service (SaaS) with full support for all data domains on Cassandra, including Customer Master Data Management and Automotive
- User experience with brand and style makeover, improved error handing, and user-defined messaging
- Syndication experience improvements with tailored views for sales users, support for product families, and side-by-side comparison and quality scores
New commercial licensing options introduced in 10.1 are:
- Data preparation and list processing that leverages data as a strategic asset by exploring, combining, cleansing, deduplicating, and transforming data prior to business process consumption
- Supplier Self-Service onboarding that improves the vetting, onboarding, and management of new and potential suppliers
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SAP-certified DEBMAS / CREMAS connectivity providing a SAP-certified integration approach, which has been pretested ensuring quick and easy integration with SAP
Information regarding the enhancements above and a wide variety of other enhancements and changes are included in this release note set.
- Web UI Enhancements and Changes
- Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Enhancements
- PIM for Retail Enhancements
- General Enhancements and Changes
- Data Integration Enhancements
- Product Data Syndication Enhancements
- Customer MDM Enhancements and Changes
- Product MDM for Automotive 10.1 - 7.0.32
- Data Exchange Enhancements and Changes
- Enhanced Translation Functionality
- API Enhancements and Updates
- Platform and Software Support Changes
- Miscellaneous Bugfixes
Important: Some functionality described within these notes is controlled via 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.
Upgrade Guide and Maintenance Patches
In addition to the individual release notes, upgrading customers should read the 10.1 Upgrade Guide here. This guide provides information that existing customers will need to know prior to upgrading. This includes actions required for deprecated components and unsupported functionality.
If / when applicable at the time of your installation, read the maintenance patch notes for 10.1 to understand the full scope of changes for the 10.1 release and subsequent patches.
Enhancement Requests
Customer satisfaction is top priority for Stibo Systems. Many of the changes available in 10.1 are implemented as solutions to enhancement requests that customers have submitted. These projects represent nearly 100 enhancement requests received by Stibo Systems. The updates that were made as part of the enhancement request process are included in the Enhancement Requests release note here.
Academy and Community Resources
Stibo Systems Master Data Management (MDM) Academy offers customer and partner hands-on training options to expand your knowledge on Stibo Systems MDM solutions. Information regarding our certification programs and specific classes can be found on our website: https://www.stibosystems.com/services-support/mdm-academy.
All customers and partners are encouraged to join a Stibo Systems Community to collaborate with other users. These release notes and other release materials, including videos, are also available within each Community.
Customers: https://www.stibosystems.com/online-community
Partners: https://www.stibosystems.com/partners/partner-community
Installation Recipe
The baseline can be installed using this command:
spot --upgrade=step:10.1
For on-premise systems, refer to the SPOT Program documentation for more information, including how to use the SPOT --upgrade command to also find compatible components that can be added at the same time as the baseline patch (--upgrade=all) in the SPOT Program topic of the System Administration Guide found in Downloadable Documentation. For assistance, contact Stibo Systems Technical Services. For SaaS systems, contact your Stibo Systems account manager. For customers that have custom add-on components and/or if Stibo Systems Support is deploying your system upgrades and patches, submit an upgrade request via the Customer Portal (Jira).
This document is intended for use by active Stibo Systems Enterprise Platform (STEP) 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.