The CAS Console for Oracle Commerce Workbench is a Web-based application used to crawl various data sources including file systems, content management systems, and custom data source extensions. During the Content Acquisition System installation, the CAS Console is installed as an extension to Oracle Commerce Workbench.

In a typical implementation, Oracle Commerce developers use the CAS Console for Oracle Commerce Workbench to add one or more data sources to an application. The CAS Server crawls the data source and converts the source data into Endeca records. These records are subsequently processed by Forge and the Indexer in an Oracle Commerce pipeline for use in an MDEX Engine.