Roadmap 2021 for TUA Spartacus

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Last updated April 7, 2021 by Deborah Cholmeley-Jones, Solution Owner, TUA Spartacus

This document describes what what is planned for Spartacus for Q2 2021 and later.

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The various documentation links provided point to SAP Commerce Cloud or Accelerator documentation or third-party external links. These links are included for information purposes only and may not reflect exactly what is implemented in Spartacus.

Overview

General Release Information

We typically try to publish new Spartacus libraries every two weeks. Each release may contain bug fixes, improvements, and/or new features.

When new features are available for release, normally we will publish a pre-release “next” version of the libraries with the new features, in order to get feedback. When the final, new, minor version is ready, we usually publish a release candidate (RC), with the final new x.y.0 a few days or weeks later.

Some of the links provided in the following lists point to SAP Commerce Telco and Utilities Accelerator documentation, to give an idea of what the feature is about. These links are for context only. While we strive for feature parity, the Spartacus implementation of features may not work exactly as in Accelerator.

Other Release Documentation

Questions?

If you have technical questions, you can get in touch with us on Stack Overflow.

For non-technical questions and roadmap feedback, you can reach us on our dedicated #help-tua Slack workspace.

Future Outlook / Features Planned for Q2 2021 and Later

The items in this section are on the future roadmap, but not necessarily yet planned for a specific quarter. Some features require new OCC REST APIs, not yet planned and still considered to be done.

B2C Storefront Features Planned

  • Provide the ability for a customer to purchase a fixed Bundled Product Offering.
  • One-Click Order Placement for services.
  • One-click activation/deactivation of services.

Retention Process Flows

Pricing Features

B2C Self-Care Asset Management and Assurance (next generation customer product inventory for customer self-management of assets (that is, subscriptions) with taking contractual terms into consideration)

TM Forum-compliant Customer Product Inventory to support retention-based purchase flows as well as services management:

  • Renew contract (subscription)
  • Tariff Change - upgrade
  • Tariff Change - upsell
  • Tariff Change - cross-sell
  • Tariff Change - downgrade
  • Tariff Change - regrade/move home
  • Prepaid to Postpaid
  • Postpaid to Prepaid
  • Merge Accounts
  • Split Accounts
  • Cancel contract
  • Terminate contract (move out)
  • Place subscription “on hold”
  • Suspend Subscription (via provider)
  • Activate Service
  • Deactivate Service
  • Top-up Account

TUA Business-to-Business Storefront Supporting SMB Customers

  • Telco B2B Product Catalog supporting complex product offerings
  • Organizational Management
  • Enhanced Roles and Permissions Management
  • Support of complex purchase flows (that is, workflow management)
  • B2B Self-Care Asset Management and Assurance to manage corporate assets