Sales and service on Databricks

Key account review on Databricks

Runs the quarterly review of each key account on live orders, quotes, credit and returns, with the account team, the sales director and the executive sponsor on their own levels.

SCREENSDATA HANDLERSDATABRICKS · READ IN PLACES01 Account overviewS02 Assessment and planS03 Service and finance inputS04 Sponsor pageS05 Review trackerdh_customer_masterCustomer mastersilver.customerdh_sales_order_lineSales order linesilver.sales_order_linedh_quotationQuotationsilver.quotationdh_credit_profileCredit profilesilver.credit_profile ·gold.exposure_dailydh_return_orderReturn ordersilver.return_orderWRITE BACK TO DATABRICKSCustomer master → MERGE INTO gold.lima_app_decisionsrows stay in Databricks · access rules applied at read time · each write acknowledged and logged
The screens of the app, the data handler behind each, and the Databricks object it reads in place. Writes below the line go through MERGE into a Lima-owned table, with the operational write to the ERP of record.
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What the app reads

The Databricks objects behind each handler

Delta tables in Unity Catalog are read in place through a SQL warehouse: the app sends only the filter and the columns it needs. The Backbone landing model (bronze, silver and gold) is the usual source, so history and aggregates are already prepared and lineage is registered in Unity Catalog.

ObjectRead fromFields the app usesFreshness
Customer mastersilver.customercustomer_id (id) · name (name) · country (country) · sales_org (sales org)prepared by the Backbone; refreshed on its schedule
Sales order linesilver.sales_order_lineso_number (number) · so_line (line) · customer_id (customer) · material_id (material)prepared by the Backbone; refreshed on its schedule
Quotationsilver.quotationquote_id (number) · customer_id (customer) · net_value (value) · valid_to (valid to)prepared by the Backbone; refreshed on its schedule
Credit profilesilver.credit_profile · gold.exposure_dailycustomer_id (customer) · credit_limit (limit) · exposure (exposure) · risk_class (risk class)prepared by the Backbone; refreshed on its schedule
Return ordersilver.return_orderreturn_id (number) · customer_id (customer) · material_id (material) · qty (qty)prepared by the Backbone; refreshed on its schedule
The trigger

The start criterion in Databricks's own fields

In plain words: The review cycle starts on the first working day of each quarter for every account on the key-account list, or when the sales director opens one early.

This app starts from a screen, so the first read happens when the instance opens; the criteria on the arrows use the fields above.

Start

The review cycle starts on the first working day of each quarter for every account on the key-account list, or when the sales director opens one early. The instance then reads its rows from Databricks through the handlers above.

What the app writes back

Through MERGE and the system of record

Decisions are recorded in a Lima-owned gold table with MERGE INTO, so notebooks and dashboards see them next to the history. The operational write goes to the system of record through its released interface, and the app records the acknowledgement. For this app the operational change (account plan summary, next-quarter targets and the commitments recorded at the meeting written to the account record in the CRM) goes to SAP S/4HANA or Oracle Fusion through its released interface, and the pair pages for those systems show the exact call.

ObjectWhat changesInterface
Customer masteraccount plan summary, next-quarter targets and the commitments recorded at the meeting written to the account record in the CRMMERGE INTO gold.lima_app_decisions
Acknowledged and logged

Each write stores the identifier Databricks returns beside the decision, the person and the time, so the log answers who changed what, and the reconciliation shows it arrived.

Access and prerequisites

What is in place before the first build

Unity Catalog grants and row filters are mapped to Lima access policies once, so a person sees the same rows in the app that they see in a notebook.

  • A service principal with SELECT on the silver and gold schemas and MODIFY on the Lima decision schema
  • A SQL warehouse (a small serverless warehouse serves most screens)
  • The Backbone landing model in place for the objects the app uses, or your own silver tables registered
  • The system of record connected for the operational write
Register the handlers5 objects from the catalog; each shows its rows at once.
Why the lake

History and aggregates, read where they land

This app reads customer master from Databricks because the screens need history at scale: months of rows, aggregates by period, several versions. The Backbone lands the objects in the conformed model and refreshes them on a schedule, and the handler reads them in place with the filter and the columns pushed down. The person's grants in Databricks decide what they see.

The operational rows the person acts on can come live from the ERP in the same app: one handler per object per system, and a screen that shows both.

Readsconformed and history tables, in placeDatabricks
Decision recordMERGE into a Lima-owned tablebeside the history
Operational writeto the ERP of record through its interfaceacknowledged
GrantsDatabricks roles and row policies honouredat read time
Nearby

This app on other systems, and other apps on Databricks

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Terms on this page

Key accountA customer on the list the sales director keeps, reviewed every quarter with an executive sponsor.
Executive sponsorThe senior person who owns the relationship with the customer's leadership.
Read in placeThe rows stay in Databricks; the handler sends the filter and the columns and Databricks returns the matching rows.
Questions

Does this app copy data out of Databricks?

The screens read through handlers that leave the rows in Databricks. The conformed tables it reads were landed there by the Backbone from the ERP; the app reads them there.

What does Databricks need to allow?

The prerequisites above: an integration identity with read rights on the objects listed and write rights on the interfaces named, connectivity, and the scopes agreed with the process owner.

Can I run it on another system as well?

Yes. The screens, criteria and roles stay; the handlers are re-bound to the other system's objects, and the app's other system pages show them.

See this app on your data

Bring the process and the systems it touches. In the first session we register the data handlers, draw the levels or the lanes and run the first screen on your live rows.