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Release 1.3 and Release 1.4 scope & readiness materials

ItemDescriptionReadiness Materials
M&A for affected organisations*As is:
  • Pre-M&A access controls & entity names on DCOM for affected organisations

To be:

  • Enables automated data fix process in DCOM to update access controls and entity names on contracts for affected organisations. Note – The release does not automatically trigger the M&A process. Once the functionality is live, the relevant Lloyds teams will conduct each M&A separately.
N/A – organisation specific, no change to DCOM usage
Notifications upgrade*

As is:

  • Only notifications for the Create flow complete, notifications for endorsements, renewal, terminate had to be de-scoped due to capacity in MVP
  • Notifications are not as clear as they can be in places

To be:

  • Add in high priority notifications e.g. for endorsement, renewal
  • Re-word notifications
View Knowledge Article
GDPR notification improvements

As is:

  • Privacy notices sent to a user each time they are named on a contract, regardless of whether they have received one before

To be:

  • Privacy notices only sent once to a user
  • Re-word notifications
View Knowledge Article
Tracked changes for review tasks*

As is: 

  • Review task sent from contract creator to all section leads to check data in DCOM is what was agreed offline
  • Section leads can approve/reject as appropriate
  • If they reject, contract creator must update & send back to leads
  • Currently, there is no summary to see what has been changed on DCOM, so leads can end up re-reviewing all info (not just the changes they requested)

To be: 

  • Tracked changes for returned review tasks gives leads confidence that they can see all changes made instantly
View Knowledge Article & video
NTU improvements*

As is: 

  • At go-live, logic built into DCOM meaning that tasks auto-NTUd too quickly.
  • Consequently, auto-NTU functionality was switched off, but due to tactical nature of the fix, notifications were not

To be:

  • Re-instate simplified auto-NTU logic to only occur every 365 days from last update
  • Update Notifications' wording and logic
View Knowledge Article
Endorsement review tasks to separate sections*

As is:

  • Currently an endorsement requires all section leads to approve review tasks, even if the section they are on is not affected by the endorsement

To be: 

  • Allow users to select which section(s) are being changed by an endorsement, and only send review tasks to lead(s) on these section(s)
View Knowledge Article and video
Edit limits in COB accordion*

As is:

  • When adding a limit, currently it is only possible to delete it and re-add another one, rather than amend

To be: 

  • Ability to amend limit rather than delete and re-add
View Knowledge Article and video
Save/auto-save enhancements*



As is:

  • Users must toggle on auto-save in each contract registration, there is no ability to turn it on for all contracts

To be:

  • Ability to turn auto-save on for all contracts (new and existing)


View Knowledge Article and video
Mandatory field reduction*

As is:

  • Currently there are ~250 mandatory/conditionally mandatory questions in DCOM. An exercise has been undertaken to reduce this by ~40

To be: 

  • 9 mandatory fields made non mandatory
  • 8 removed for all users as not required
  • 26 removed for non-DDM users
View Knowledge Article
Enhanced Lloyd’s reporting

As is:

  • Only one overarching report available for Lloyd's users to run
  • Only 3 months' worth of data can be extracted from DCOM in one go. If > 3 months' data is required, it is stitched together in Excel to meet regulatory requirements

To be:

  • 9 targeted reports required by Lloyd’s to meet regulatory reporting requirements
  • ~2 years' worth of data can be extracted from DCOM
N/A – Lloyd’s only
DDM API Update

As is:

  • Registration info for all DDM contracts is passed to DDM through API

To be:

  • Only contracts which DDM is being used will be passed to DDM through API
View Knowledge Article and video

* Derived from direct market feedback

Release 1.3/1.4 Functionality Demo