Enterprise Command Centers (ECC) provide information discovery along with visualization and exploration capabilities embedded within Oracle E-Business Suite user interfaces.
Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework enables the creation of business dashboards in different functional areas. Oracle E-Business Suite users navigate transactional information using interactive visual components and guided discovery capabilities, allowing exploratory data analysis. Mobility and responsive design are built into the Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework, and all dashboards automatically adjust the layout to better fit a desktop or mobile device form factor. Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework automatically adheres to existing Oracle E-Business Suite security.
Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework installation is done using the QuickInstall package, which includes Oracle WebLogic Server 12c. Installing ECC is a guided process that allows customers to install ECC using the required patches and Configure Oracle E-Business Suite and the Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework installation for an integrated system. Following the integration process, access to command centers can be provided to users.
Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework can be installed with high availability cluster setup that allows installation on more than two machines. ECC can be enabled with SSL for communication with EBS provided EBS is TLS enabled. For more information refer to Installing Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework, Release 12.2, My Oracle Support Knowledge Document 2495053.1.
Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework has four major building blocks:
Data Sets: A data set is both a logical and a physical grouping of attributes to support business dashboard operations and use cases. ECC allows administrators to review shipped data load rules, security rules, and provides the flexibility to add new data load rules or update security rules. For more details on extending a data set, refer to Extending an Existing Data Set, Oracle E-Business Suite: Extending Enterprise Command Centers.
Metadata: Metadata encompasses vital information for controlling the behavior of the dashboard, its underlying components, and the data elements included within. For more information on metadata, refer to Metadata in Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework, Oracle E-Business Suite: Extending Enterprise Command Centers.
Application: An application encapsulates all elements needed to power the dashboard. It contains one or more dashboards according to the application business area. It references data sets, which in turn control how data is populated through load rules and behavior of every attributes on the UI through metadata. An application can reference data sets owned by other applications.
Page: A dashboard (page) is a home for all the visualization components that are designed to perform a specific type of function: Filtering the data displayed on the page, displaying visual representations of data, displaying lists of records or record attributes, or highlighting specific values.