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Active Retail Intelligence (ARI) is an exception management and resolution system driven by business rules that you define.
This guide shows you how to:
Set up and maintain the business rules that drive your Active Retail Intelligence system
Define users of Active Retail Intelligence and how they can use Active Retail Intelligence
Define exceptions and events
View alerts and the events associated with them
Following is a summary of the parts of this user guide, with comments about the intended audience for each part.
This guide is divided into two main parts: Setting Up and Maintaining Active Retail Intelligence, and Using Active Retail Intelligence. In addition, there is a glossary of Active Retail Intelligence terms.
Active Retail Intelligence Setup and Maintenance describes how to configure and maintain Active Retail Intelligence. This part of the guide covers the following topics:
Active Retail Intelligence Overview is critical reading for business analysts. It introduces Active Retail Intelligence terminology in context and should serve as a reference point when trying to understand the big picture of how the Active Retail Intelligence application components fit together. It also contains sections on conventions used throughout the manual and common features used in many of the system interfaces.
Metadata Maintenance discusses how to create and maintain the metadata that you will use to build your business rules into the system, and to define exceptions, events, and alerts. This task is intended for technical analysts who understand data modeling, the Oracle Retail Data Model, PL/SQL, and/or any external data system that Active Retail Intelligence is intended to monitor.
Active Retail Intelligence User and Group Administration explains how to create Active Retail Intelligence user and user group definitions. This task is intended for business administrators, though it may be set up initially by business analysts.
Exception and Event Definition describes how to define exceptions to your business rules, and the events associated with those exceptions. This task is intended for business analysts who have a clear understanding of the retailer's practices, the application's capabilities, and some understanding of the data model to be monitored.
Schedules for Exception Scanning and Event Reevaluation explains how to use ARI's scheduling feature to set up periodic scheduling of processes, customize the scheduling of exception scanning, and set when and how often events are reevaluated to determine whether they are still in effect. As with managing exceptions and events, this task is intended for business analysts.
Language Translation describes how to prepare Active Retail Intelligence to run in one or more target languages. Active Retail Intelligence includes a form for translating strings into the target languages.
Examples contains detailed examples using the Active Retail Intelligence interfaces, focusing primarily on planning the resolution of a business problem and then explaining how Active Retail Intelligence administrators and users would utilize the administrative and user interfaces to implement a solution.
Using Active Retail Intelligence describes how to use Active Retail Intelligence once the business rules are in place, and exceptions and events are defined and scheduled. Tasks in this section are performed by Active Retail Intelligence end users. This part of the guide includes the following topics.
About Active Retail Intelligence provides a high-level overview of Active Retail Intelligence.
View Alerts explains how to view and take actions on alerts sent to you.
View Events explains how to view and take action on events associated with an event details and enables users to act on events. This task is performed by Active Retail Intelligence end users.
For Active Retail Intelligence administrators, it is critical to understand and distinguish between key terms and concepts in Active Retail Intelligence, such as exceptions and events. A glossary is available for you to review these terms.
The Active Retail Intelligence Overview and other topics within the Setup and Maintenance section of this help system present a good deal of background on where to get started and how to use Active Retail Intelligence. Additional operational information is included in the Active Retail Intelligence Operations Guide, the Oracle Installation Guide, and Oracle Batch Schedule document.
