Release notes

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New features

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IMPORTANT: See the Technical Considerations section below for important information regarding the CostResultsUsage table and account number length in regards to invalid reclass and overhead allocation rules.

What to know before upgrading

IMPORTANT: You must apply the Axiom 2022.1 upgrade before applying any 2022.1 Axiom product upgrades. Axiom Software upgrades are backwards compatible so you can upgrade different products at different times, but you must upgrade to the Axiom 2022.1 before the first product upgrade. Refer to the Axiom EDS Release Notes and Axiom Healthcare Suite Release Notes for considerations before upgrading. Apply this update ONLY if you have already applied the release and completed all the manual setup steps from the corresponding release notes.

When upgrading to the 2022.1 version of Axiom Enterprise Decision Support, keep in mind the following:

  • You can replace Syntellis reports. Any report that you created or saved under a different name remains unchanged. Revised reports are available in Document History.

  • Any Syntellis report that was moved to a new location is automatically moved back to its original location.

  • Syntellis delivered reports may be removed or replaced. Any report that you saved under a different name or created new will remain untouched. Replaced reports are available in Document History, if needed.

  • Syntellis product templates and calculation method libraries are replaced.

  • Product task panes are replaced.

  • Process definitions will not be replaced. Process Manager will not currently work with the new system tables and web-based pages and utilities. Consequently, please plan on reviewing and potentially revising any Cost Accounting Process Definitions depending on the scope and what tasks have been created and are in use.

  • Driver files are replaced.

  • Security roles and subsystems are reset to their configured settings. Your user security exceptions remain intact.

  • Specific items that are configured as part of your company or organization’s implementation such as imports, exports, driver files, and process management files, remain unchanged. Any required modifications to these areas are covered in the release notes. For example, Process Manager defined processes for Cost Accounting will need to be modified by Client Success and has limitations with accessing web-based tasks.

  • Shared tables might have their columns reordered or have new columns added to them.

Preparing for and scheduling upgrades

Summary of the upgrade process:

  1. Review product release notes – Review this document to familiarize yourself with the new features and functionality.
  2. Schedule an installation date – Submit a request to your organization's Axiom System Administrator to contact support by creating a support ticket to schedule an installation date and time with at least three days of advance notice. The request should include the following information:
    • Desired Axiom platform version.
    • Desired Axiom for Healthcare product and version.
    • Indicate whether to first refresh the Axiom test sandbox with a copy of the production instance of Axiom and apply update(s) to it. If so, provide the soonest that Syntellis can do this.
    • Propose an approximate two-hour downtime window when Syntellis can apply update(s) to the production instance of Axiom during regular business hours, Monday through Friday 7 AM to 7 PM Central (except holidays recognized by Syntellis).
  3. Complete manual configuration updates – After installing the upgrade, review any manual setup steps needed to enable features for this version.

Getting help and training

Syntellis provides world-class resources directly within the Axiom system. Axiom Help provides topics, knowledge base articles, documents, webinar/training announcements, and videos to guide you through managing your system. To access these resources, do any of the following:

  • Windows and Excel Clients – From the Main or Admin ribbon tab, click Online Help, and then select the product. Axiom Help opens in a new browser window.

    NOTE: The online help opens only for products you are licensed to use.

  • Contextual help – Form/web-enabled features and products include contextual help directly within the user interface. This information provides a quick summary and instructions specifically related to the page you are using. You can access this information by clicking the question mark in the upper right corner of the page. To access the full Axiom Help system, click Open Help at the top of the contextual help dialog.

Syntellis Central

Syntellis Central provides centralized self-service content and resources for the Axiom Enterprise Decision Support platform and suite of products. Using Syntellis Central, you can:

  • Search help across all Axiom products.

  • Access tips, tricks, and best practices in our knowledge base.

  • Find training and certification content including on-demand, video, webinars, labs, and instructor-led courses.

  • Submit a Support issue, find suggested content, and manage any outstanding issues directly with Support.

  • Review open Software Service project status and details.

2021.3 - Known issues resolved

Several improvements and enhancements were added in 2021.3, released on October 11, 2021, but no client-facing issues were included.

2022.1.1 - Known issues resolved

No client-facing issues were addressed in 2022.1.1, released on June 20, 2022.

2022.1.2 - Known issues resolved

No client-facing issues were addressed in 2022.1.2, released on July 18, 2022.

2022.1.3 - Known issues resolved

The following table lists resolutions for issues addressed in 2022.1.3, released on August 15, 2022:

Issue Description
Case Number 00469091 - Early Adopter: Markup Defect - 2022.1 [142087]

Summary: Unit costs were incorrectly allocated (over or under costed) when an environment was configured to run an Advanced method and a Standard method within the same department and cost category.

Resolution: Adjusted and improved process flow for cost activity in the same department/cost category shared by both Advanced and Standard methods. There is no additional setup required from your environment perspective.
Add Performance enhancements to Usage Calculation process [144741] Summary: A query generated by the costitemusage process was timing out because it was not using the partition iteration pattern we used within other areas of EDS.

Resolution: Added partition iteration embedded in other areas of EDS code to mitigate timeout and other potential issues.
[22.1] System needs to provide the ability to properly allocate Tx Micro Cost offsets when they are cost mapped to a different dept, so that they can be equally distributed in the periods [148242] Summary: EDS did not properly distribute Transaction Micro Cost offsets equally to periods when they were cost mapped to a different department.

Resolution: Offsets for Transaction Micro Cost are distributed equally in appropriate periods.
22.1 Clone - WTN Defect finding - Manual Statistics are being deleted when CGL is loaded, even with transformation rule created to ignore Manual Stats[149203] Summary: Manual statistics were being deleted when loading CGL, even when transformation rule was created to ignore manual statistics.

Resolution: After processing, one-time adjustments are deleted from the CGL table, and manual statistics remain.

2022.1.4 - Known issues resolved

The following table lists resolutions for issues addressed in 2022.1.4, released on September 19, 2022:

Issue Description
Merge 22.1 - User would like for the system to properly apply the Allocation rules in a step down manner so that dept already cleared are not receiving funds back to it [151359]

Summary: In certain use cases, allocation processing was sending expenses into previously allocated departments.

Resolution: Fixed a defect where not all the departments in the FromDeptFilter in the allocation definition were being excluded from receiving allocation distributions.

2022.1.5 - Known issues resolved

No client-facing issues were addressed in 2022.1.5, released on October 10, 2022.

2022.1.6 - Known issues resolved

No client-facing issues were addressed in 2022.1.6, released on November 7, 2022.

2022.1.7 - Known issues resolved

No client-facing issues were addressed in 2022.1.7, released on February 13, 2023.

Technical considerations

No technical considerations or instructions needed for this release.