FACAH Enhancement Process and Release Notes
Activity Hubs are always growing to meet the every changing needs of Activity Hub users. To support ongoing customer needs BIA uses a monthly release cycle.
- Customer submits an enhancement request to busintel@ucsd.edu.
- In progress and future releases can be found on FACAH Bugs and Enhancements In Progress (coming soom)
- BIA and the Facilities Data Steward schedules which enhancements to include in the monthly release based on priority and level of effort, grouped by view.
- BIA makes the enhancements to the FACAH views, Tableau and Cognos.
- BIA releases the enhancements into UAT on the 1st Thursday of the month for one week of customer testing.
- FACAH Report Developers test the enhancements in Tableau or Cognos DEV.
- Finding no issues, BIA releases the enhancements to Production on the 2nd Thursday of the month, starting at 3pm.
- View enhancements are moved to Hana Prod, this will disrupt Production reports using these views.
- Tableau enhancements published to Tableau Prod > ITS Governed Data Sources.
- Cognos enhancements migrated to Cognos QA and Cognos Prod.
- Release notes are emailed to the FACAH mail list (coming soon) and ITS-DataIntergrationServices@ucsd.edu and posted to Collab.
- UAT data sources and packages are deleted at 3pm on the 2nd Friday of the month.
Keep up with current bugs and enhancements underway and schedule for future releases: FACAH Bugs and Enhancements In Progress (coming soon)
Review details of past enhancement and those in user acceptance testing: