Increase the prominence and usage of brand and brandName properties

[nils-work]

Description
The Comparator currently appears to only present 'brand' details as product properties, as opposed to the productCategory label which is not shown in the property list, but is used for grouping in the Products section (green highlight in attached image).

Generally, a 'brand' or line of business is more prominent in bank website navigation and may be equally or more important than the product category in finding or comparing products (yellow highlight).

Both brand and product-category are filtering parameters for the Get Products API, so it seems the brand details (particularly brandName as 'An optional display name of the brand') could be given more prominence to demonstrate its meaning in Product Reference Data.

Also to note -

1. the brand properties in the PRD seem to have become the de facto place to include the bank brand name because it's not otherwise available in the payload
2. the brandName value may be different to the 'Name' of the bank provided for the Comparator tool and the Registry
3. some banks have so many products returned by the default request to their Public base URI that it impacts the performance of the comparator when multiple banks are selected, so brand may be useful in reducing the number of requests being made.

Related Work Items
If the intent for the brand property is to filter and classify products at a high level, consider a way to present it more like a filter or at least a grouping method as per the productCategory property.

[nils-work]

Hi @JamesMBligh
Could this enhancement for brand details be considered along with the updates to the Comparator you mentioned today?
Thank you