Purpose
The Business Opportunity Dates view is designed to consolidate and standardise key date attributes related to business opportunities within the organisation.
The Business Opportunity Dates view plays a critical role in tracking, analysing, and forecasting opportunity lifecycle events. By consolidating multiple date fields into a single structured dataset, it ensures better visibility, consistency, and accessibility of key business opportunity milestones, supporting strategic decision-making across the organisation.
Use Case
Owner: Soon Tan
Typical Use Case: Used in business opportunity analytics, sales forecasting, and pipeline reporting to segment and track business opportunities by various lifecycle milestones.
Style: Dimension table containing a single row per OPPORTUNITY_NO
.
Source
FACT_BUSINESS_OPP_OL$Integrations:
ifs.FACT_BUSINESS_OPP_LINE_OL
– RetrievesWANTED_DELIVERY_DATE
based on the latest available value per opportunity.
DataMarts Integration
This view is integrated across the following DataMarts:
- Customer – Associates business opportunities with specific customer details.
- Sales & Opportunities – Supports tracking and forecasting of opportunities.
- Company – Links opportunity data with organisational context.
Sample Exec
EXEC get.myView @dataMart = 'BusOpp', @viewName = 'Dates', @token = '<myToken>', @version = '<202404>'Response
Identifiers:
The table includes unique identifiers:
COMPANY
OPPORTUNITY_NO
OPPORTUNITY_SEQ
: A JSON-based sequence key combiningCOMPANY
andOPPORTUNITY_NO
for consistent tracking.
Date Attributes:
Tracks critical lifecycle dates for business opportunities:
{
"START_DATE": "2024-01-15",
"ESTIMATED_SIGN_DATE": "2024-02-20",
"ACTUAL_SIGN_DATE": "2024-03-10",
"EXPIRATION_DATE": "2024-12-31",
"PRICE_EFFECTIVE_DATE": "2024-02-01",
"WANTED_DELIVERY_DATE": "2024-05-15",
"CLOSURE_DATE": "2024-06-30"
}
- CLOSURE_DATE – The date when the opportunity is finalised or closed.
- START_DATE – The initial date of the opportunity.
- ESTIMATED_SIGN_DATE – Projected contract signature date.
- ACTUAL_SIGN_DATE – The actual contract signature date.
- EXPIRATION_DATE – The date the opportunity expires or is no longer valid.
- PRICE_EFFECTIVE_DATE – The date pricing for the opportunity becomes effective.
- WANTED_DELIVERY_DATE – The latest wanted delivery date based on associated opportunity line data.
Expected Condition
The DataMart View BusOpp.Dates is in the style of 202409
As Found Condition
The unversioned (beta) edition of the DataMart View BusOpp.Dates conflicts with the new view cdm.Busopp.Dates
Gap/Consequence
The unversioned (beta) edition of the DataMart View BusOpp.Dates will be changed to cdm EAV style
Immediate Action
We have checked Usage Analysis and note it is unused
If you use BusOpp.Dates (beta) or with no version, you should change to 202502 (we will copy this to 202409)