Empower Data Platform Version 1.8

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Minor Improvements and User Sync

Version 1.8 includes a number of minor improvement designed to improve reliability and prepare for the broad release of the Empower UX capability.

Data Engineering Improvements

1. Simplified JDBC driver licensing when extracting data via Spark.
2. Added Spark functions to parse XML extracted from Workday.
3. Improved efficiency of object ingestion pipelines by scoping database queries to the object.
4. Introduced logic to fail object ingestion if an object has a file in the Processing or Failed state.
5. Added support to dynamically query the source schema during MySQL metadata extraction

Readiness for Empower UX - User Sync and Photos

1. This API service supports user authentication and management functionalities within the Empower platform using SSO:
   1. This service allows for:
      1. Sign in using SSO
      2. Assigning roles to users and groups
      3. Unassigning roles from users and groups
      4. Lookup users and groups in associated Identity Providers
      5. Provide user information (profile image etc.)
      6. Manage user settings

Config Promotion v 0.1

1. Prior to 1.8, promotion from dev to stage and prod was a manual process. 1.8 brings version 0.1 of Config Promotion which will allow the Hitachi implementation engineers to automatically promote their work to higher environments. This feature will be available to customer-side engineers in future versions.
   1. In this release we are supporting entities processing-steps, data-model-configs, object-models for promotion
   2. This feature supports both GitHub and Azure DevOps repository, depending on the client's setup.