Overview of Site Hub
This chapter covers the following topics:
Overview of Site Hub
Oracle Site Hub provides a data hub to store and maintain all information about sites in organizations. A site is defined as a place of business interest. Examples include stores, warehouses, manufacturing plants, distribution centers, retail locations, and executive offices. Sites have attributes such as spatial and geographic locations, legal and physical entities; and can include groupings and hierarchies. Site Hub enables a business to have a unified view of all aspects of the site in a central place. It offers organizations functionality to centrally maintain sites and capture a site’s lifecycle, and includes the following features:
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Multiple methods for site creation including templates, copying, importing, or web services. After creation, sites can be updated and maintained.
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Associated site attributes for capturing functional areas including business characteristics, physical characteristics, financial information, competitive information, and demographic data. Site Hub provides seeded attributes, and you can define an unlimited number of additional attributes specific to your business requirements.
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Site clusters to group shared characteristics.
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Site hierarchies providing a classification of relationships needed for your business.
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Two user roles are provided. The Administrator role is used for setup, and the Site User role includes site management functionality.
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Role based access control providing security for site and hierarchy data objects determined by a an individual user or group's role.
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Mapping functionality for geographic locations is provided using Google Maps.
Integration with Oracle Applications
Oracle Enterprise Asset Management
Enterprise Asset Management enables maintenance of an organization’s sites assets such as machines, fixtures, and anything requiring maintenance.
Oracle Inventory
Site Hub enables you to create and maintain Oracle Inventory organizations associated with sites.
Oracle Property Manager
You can access Oracle Property Manager directly from Site Hub to manage property locations and leases associated with sites.
Oracle Trading Community Architecture (TCA)
Trading Community Architecture enables Site Hub to store party relationships, and capture contact attributes associated with the site. This includes TCA entities such as parties, party sites, party relationships, and contacts.
Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM)
UCM enables corporations to store documents in a central document management repository and share it across multiple applications. Oracle E-Business Suite entities may have unstructured data attachments in folders and files. These attachments can be enabled for business entities. See: E-Business Suite Attachments, Oracle Product Information Management User's Guide
Overview of Site Hub User Roles
Oracle Site Hub provides two user roles—Administrator and Site User.
The Administrator role workbench pages contain tabbed regions for search and setup of site attributes, location attributes, trade areas and trade area group attributes, hierarchy attributes, mapping preferences, import interface, value sets and functions, and role security.
Administrator Role
Site Hub supports user-defined attributes for site, location, trade areas, and hierarchies. An administrator defines attribute groups, assignments, and attribute pages (or views). Search criteria and results formats are defined in this role to help in searching for sites. You can also define import formats for new site creation. Two search functions are provided for finding existing records. For simple searches you can use attributes, assignments, and criteria. This enables you to navigate to site records, and view and update information. Additionally you can use conditional qualifiers in searching for attributes.
The Administrator role is also used to import third party data to generate a database view of existing attributes and custom code, configure the map display, access the Geocoder program, configure the Hierarchy Workbench, associate value sets, and define role security.
Site User Role
The Site User role is a workbench with regions for: Home, Sites, Hierarchies, and Clusters. The page contains a Notifications region to navigate to message information and enter a response.
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Home: This region has three tabbed areas—My Sites, My Hierarchies, and My Clusters. These regions enable you to access more frequently used records. The records appearing in each region are selected in the Manage pages. See: Overview of Site Management
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Sites: Displays the Sites Simple Search page. After displaying the results of your search—you can navigate to pages to manage site, cluster, hierarchy, and template records. See: Searching for Information
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Hierarchies: Displays the Hierarchies Simple Search page where you can navigate to pages to view, create, update hierarchy records, and access the Hierarchy Workbench. See: Viewing Site Hierarchies
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Clusters: Displays the Clusters Simple Search page where you can navigate to pages to view, create, and update cluster records. See: Viewing and Creating Site Clusters
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