Integrate Launch with Oracle Digital Business Experience Process Increment 2

The following enhancements are made in the Launch to support the integration of Launch with Digital Business Experience Solution (DBE):

  1. Introduction of an attributed called Composition type to Product Offering entity which takes two values partial item and whole item and can be published to Siebel CRM. 
  2. Introduction of new product offering type in atomic offering called Time Based Offer to support time-based discounts. The product specification associated to such offerings should have the characteristics Duration, DurationUnitOfMeasure and DurationValidityStart. This Product Offer gets published to Siebel CRM as a Customizable Product.
  3. Introduction of a property called Apply to which taker user balance/sharer balance values on adjustments in atomic offering (all types) for achieving sharing of discounts and allowances. This configuration gets published to Oracle Billing & Revenue Management application.

The product offering definition is enhanced to include additional attributes/validations:

  • At least one charge per offer
  • Support for multiple charges
  • Support for multi pricelist
  • Multiple Recurring Fee type offers with unique frequency
  • Bundle and its components to have the same Billing service type

The following figure shows the composition type attribute of a Product Offer Resource

Composition type

Composition type

The following figure shows the time-based offer

Time based offer

Time based offer

The following figure shows the new user/sharer balance

Apply to property

Apply to property

The business benefit of this feature is to improve the publish automation to runtime systems, namely Siebel CRM and Oracle Billing & Revenue Management.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Access Requirements

  • Communications Catalog Product Manager
  • Communications Catalog Administrator