The asset management environment runs the Merchandising application (which also requires Core Commerce and ATG Content Administration). It manages the Core Commerce catalog and other data in versioned repositories, and deploys data from these versioned repositories to nonversioned repositories on the production environment. Note that the data loading environment also accesses this data, so both the production environment and the data loading environment need to be deployment targets for the merchandising environment to ensure that the repository caches on these environments remain in synch.

For information about installing and running Merchandising, see the Merchandising Administration Guide. In addition to following the instructions found there, run the following import script to create the default segment lists for reporting:

<ATG11dir>/DCS/Versioned/install/importDCSVersioned

When you assemble your EAR file for the asset management environment, include the ARF.base application module.

See also, Configuring an Asset Management Server in the Business Intelligence Installation and Configuration Guide.