5 Implementation

In the first few days after your provisioning, it is recommended that you do each of the following tasks, as they are applicable for your implementation.

Cloud Services Documentation

Refer to the Deployment chapter for a complete list of documentation, training materials, and information about the Oracle Retail community.

Cloud Services Access

Set up accounts for users who will be part of implementing the service. This includes, but is not limited to, business owners, implementation partners, IT personnel, planners, and approvers.

You need to determine the groups and level of access for each user, depending on their roles. For example, implementation partners need access to Online Administration Tools to build the RPAS CE domain, and may need to be part of the administration group.

Access My Oracle Support

Validate access to the My Oracle Support portal (see Register Customer Support Identifier for registration and access instructions) to ensure you have access to log Service Requests, view the knowledge base, and download content.

Cloud Service Policies and Release Process

As part of the initial orientation, your Customer Success Manager provides an overview of Cloud Service Policies and Cloud Service Release Process (also known as Blueprint to Cloud).

For the Planning & Optimization cloud services, this information is available in My Oracle Support DOC ID: 2492295.1

For Insights and AI Foundation cloud services, this information is available in My Oracle Support DOC ID: 2539848.1

Starter Kit

The Planning & Optimization Cloud Services come with a Starter Kit that provides the necessary tools to successfully implement your service. The Starter Kit can be downloaded from My Oracle Support under Patches & Updates for your respective cloud service.

Note:

If you have issues downloading the Starter Kit package from My Oracle Support, log a Service Request through which Oracle will provide a link to access the Starter Kit package.

The Starter Kit includes:

1. Configuration Tools

   The Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server Cloud Edition (RPAS CE) Configuration Tools provide a flexible means to configure and build RPAS CE-based applications with retailer-specific business parameters.

2. RPAS CE Virtual Machine

   The Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server Cloud Edition (RPAS CE) Virtual Machines (VMs) provide a preinstalled/preconfigured VM that can be deployed on a PC. This toolkit is designed to be used by partners to get quick access to the application and UI for learning and/or configuration design purposes.

   RPAS CE VMs are not meant to be a replacement or substitution for pre-production Cloud Environments.

3. GA Configuration and Sample Data

   Depending on the cloud service type, the starter kit will include GA configuration and sample data.