CXP Extracts

Customer In the context of the Cloud Monetisation Platform, an individual or organisation who has signed an agreement to take goods and services from a service provider. A customer receives a bill associated with one or more subscriptions, and can be a single end user or a large company with many subscriptions assigned to one agreement. Experience Platform, or CXP Customer Experience Platform, or CXP, is MDS Global's self-service app that allows business customers to manage their own accounts and subscriptions., is a self-service app that allows you to manage your own accounts.

Data is extracted from the CMP Converged Monetisation Platform. The MDS Global product that supports customer care and billing for digital service providers. database and made available in a format that can be directly imported into CXP. The batch jobs used to extract CMP data include Hierarchy Analytics and Invoice Analytics that are available for each bill run.

The SABRE Analyser Extract job is designed so that two separate Extracts are produced from CMP in a format that can be directly imported into CXP.

About extract files

All data extracts received by CXP are in the form of sets of variable width CSV Comma Separated Values. A simple file format used to store tabular data, such as a spreadsheet or database. CSV files can collect the data from tables so that it can be input to another table-oriented application such as a relational database application. (Comma-separated value) files with TAB delimitation between record fields. Data is in a plain text format using a single encoding scheme as agreed with CXP prior to an environment deployment. For example, Unicode or ASCII.

Extract file set naming convention

The following naming convention applies for extract files that are delivered as individual .dat files. The naming convention uses a base name combined with a series of prefixes to create unique file names. Each element of the name is separated with a dash character (-).

This format allows the various elements of the file name to be parsed by using a dash as a delimiter.

Extract files can be delivered individually as .dat files, or they can be grouped together and delivered as a single .zip file.

Zip file naming convention

The following naming convention applies when the set of individual extract files are grouped together and delivered as one .zip file. The naming convention uses a base name combined with a series of prefixes to create unique file names. Each element of the name is separated with a dash character (-).

This format allows the various elements of the file name to be parsed by using a dash as a delimiter.