The Oracle Commerce Guided Search distribution includes two tools that help you create and edit your instance configuration, and maintain your Oracle Commerce Guided Search implementation: Developer Studio and Workbench. This section provides a brief introduction to these tools.

Workbench is a Web-based application that provides access to reports that describe how end-users are using a Guided Search implementation.

The two primary audiences for Workbench are:

Workbench can report the most popular search terms, the most popular navigation locations, search terms that are most often misspelled, and so forth.

The Endeca Application Controller is the interface you use to control, manage, and monitor your Oracle Commerce Guided Search implementations.

The use of open standards, such as the Web Services Descriptive Language (WSDL), makes the Application Controller platform and language agnostic. As a result, the Application Controller supports a wide variety of applications in production. In addition, the Application Controller allows you to handle complex operating environments that support features such as partial updates, delta updates, phased Dgraph updates and more.

Most implementations that use the Application Controller will follow the general setup outlined below.

The following illustration shows the architecture of a typical implementation that uses the Application Controller.

In this architecture diagram, the following happens:

For detailed information about configuring and using the Endeca Application Controller, see the Oracle Commerce Endeca Application Controller Guide.


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