Preface

The Oracle Retail Active Retail Intelligence User Guide describes the application user interface and how to navigate through it.

Audience

This document is intended for the users and administrators of Oracle Retail Active Retail Intelligence. This may include merchandisers, buyers, and business analysts.

Active Retail Intelligence Administrators

Most of this guide is directed toward the people in your business who are responsible for configuring and maintaining Active Retail Intelligence. These users define the business rules under which Active Retail Intelligence performs exception management. Ideally, configuring Active Retail Intelligence is a cooperative effort involving the following types of people in your business:

A business analyst, with both a functional understanding of the business and a technical understanding of the software used in the business.

A database administrator with database knowledge and Oracle programming skills.

If you are responsible for setting up and maintaining Active Retail Intelligence, you should read the entire guide.

Active Retail Intelligence End Users

The Active Retail Intelligence end user receives alerts and takes actions to resolve the alerts. Any user of Oracle Retail applications, such as the Oracle Retail Merchandising System (RMS), could be an Active Retail Intelligence end user.

Documentation Accessibility

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Access to Oracle Support

Oracle customers that have purchased support have access to electronic support through My Oracle Support. For information, visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=info or visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=trs if you are hearing impaired.

Customer Support

To contact Oracle Customer Support, access My Oracle Support at the following URL:

https://support.oracle.com

When contacting Customer Support, please provide the following:

Product version and program/module name
Functional and technical description of the problem (include business impact)
Detailed step-by-step instructions to re-create
Exact error message received
Screen shots of each step you take

Improved Process for Oracle Retail Documentation Corrections

To more quickly address critical corrections to Oracle Retail documentation content, Oracle Retail documentation may be republished whenever a critical correction is needed. For critical corrections, the republication of an Oracle Retail document may at times not be attached to a numbered software release; instead, the Oracle Retail document will simply be replaced on the Oracle Technology Network Web site, or, in the case of Data Models, to the applicable My Oracle Support Documentation container where they reside.

This process will prevent delays in making critical corrections available to customers. For the customer, it means that before you begin installation, you must verify that you have the most recent version of the Oracle Retail documentation set. Oracle Retail documentation is available on the Oracle Technology Network at the following URL:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/oracle-retail-100266.html

An updated version of the applicable Oracle Retail document is indicated by Oracle part number, as well as print date (month and year). An updated version uses the same part number, with a higher-numbered suffix. For example, part number E123456-02 is an updated version of a document with part number E123456-01.

If a more recent version of a document is available, that version supersedes all previous versions.

Oracle Retail Documentation on the Oracle Technology Network

Documentation is packaged with each Oracle Retail product release. Oracle Retail product documentation is also available on the following Web site:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/oracle_retail.html

(Data Model documents are not available through Oracle Technology Network. These documents are packaged with released code, or you can obtain them through My Oracle Support.)

Documentation should be available on this Web site within a month after a product release.

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention	Meaning
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