2 Pre-Provisioning

Pre-provisioning is the period after contracts are signed, but before receiving your environments, where some key activities can occur related to your upcoming implementation. For Brand Compliance Management cloud service implementations, your Customer Success Manager (CSM) will be your main point of contact for these activities.

Activate IDCS

Identity Cloud Service (IDCS) is the user identity solution for most Oracle Retail cloud services. A foundation-level IDCS subscription comes with your retail subscription, but can also be purchased separately, if desired, such as for use as an enterprise identity provider or to manage PaaS or IaaS instances, metrics, and so on. However, it should be noted that these are not applicable for your Brand Compliance Management subscription, as the Brand Compliance Management solution utilizes it only for administration of users. IDCS requires your subscribed cloud service to be attached within an Oracle Cloud Account.

For more details on the Oracle Identity Cloud Service capabilities, see the following:

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/identity-cloud/uaids/get-started-oracle-identity-cloud-service1.html

You will receive an activation email from Oracle in the initial stages of provisioning, often immediately following your subscription order being booked. You will need to activate your IDCS account in order to begin the Brand Compliance Management provisioning activities. Promptly completing the activations steps will better enable on-time environment delivery.

Note:

IDCS activation does NOT impact billing or the subscription service period. Those details are connected to the subsequent environment delivery of the Brand Compliance Management cloud service.

The activation process after login may take you to Oracle Cloud My Services Dashboard. Once you have an account with login credentials, you can sign in directly using the following URL: https://cloud.oracle.com. From here, you are able to confirm activation status by clicking in the Account Management section. Within Account Management, find the Activate tab/section. If there are pending activations, they will be provided in list format with a link next to each item for you to complete the action.

More information on IDCS can be obtained at: https://cloud.oracle.com/idcs

• Managing Account Administrators: https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/get-started/subscriptions-cloud/mmocs/managing-account-administrators.html

• Managing Your Identity Domain: https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/get-started/subscriptions-cloud/mmocs/managing-your-identity-domain.html

Creating an Oracle Cloud Account

Note:

An Oracle Cloud Account is not the same as your My Oracle Support account. The Oracle Cloud Account account exists within IDCS and is used for managing user security within the Brand Compliance Management solution.

To start the setup, you click the Activate link provided in the received email. Then the following steps are required:

1. Provide the desired name for the Oracle Cloud Account.

2. Provide a valid email address for the Cloud Account.

3. Provide the initial Administrator information.

4. Create the account.

   Note:

   For Brand Compliance Management you will require two instances of IDCS, one for the stage environment, and one for the production environment.

   You must create the additional instance of IDCS for stage in order for Oracle to progress provisioning. The IDCS instance for production will be created at Cloud Account activation.

   Contact Oracle for instructions on how to complete this task.

Prepare Project Team

During this time, you will also be putting together your project plan for the deployment and go-live phases of your implementation. It is important to consider the following during this planning phase to prepare your project team for the Brand Compliance Management implementation:

• Identity Cloud Service - As noted above, you will be using IDCS as part of user management for your Brand Compliance Management cloud service. During the pre-provisioning timeframe, familiarize yourself with this solution and its features.

  https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/identity-cloud/index.html

• Project Team Training - Consider the training that the members of your team will need in order to make your implementation successful. This includes both your employees, as well as your systems integration partner. Suggested training topics to consider include:

  • Functional User Training

  • BI Publisher

• Security Configurations - During this phase, you should designate a portion of your team to becoming familiar with IDCS and the enterprise roles, duties, and privileges that will be part of the Brand Compliance Management cloud service you are implementing.

  For information on IDCS, see Managing User, User Accounts, and Roles.

  See also the Oracle Retail Brand Compliance Management Cloud Service Administration Guide for details of the use of IDCS in Brand Compliance.

  Note:

  IDCS manages Brand Compliance Management user access, however new user accounts are created within Brand Compliance Management and automatically synchronized with IDCS.

• System Options Configuration - Start reviewing the system options available in the Brand Compliance Management solution to determine how these should be configured. Work with your systems integrator to identify those you are unsure about or need to be considered in the program planning. See the Oracle Retail Brand Compliance Management Cloud Service Administration Guide for details of the configuration options for Brand Compliance Management.

• Integration Planning - Start reviewing the available existing integrations available as part of the Brand Compliance Management cloud service to support any integrations you may need to external solutions. Key documents to review include:

  • Brand Compliance Cloud Service Implementation Guide - This will be an important document to review if you are implementing Brand Compliance Management external systems using the available ReST services. The Oracle Retail Brand Compliance Management Cloud Service Implementation Guide is located with the Brand Compliance Management Cloud Service user documentation on Oracle Help Center.

  • Retail Reference Library - This tool is free to all Oracle Retail customers and can be downloaded from My Oracle Support under Doc ID 2058843.2. This tool is composed of multiple parts, but the most critical to become familiar with are the Retail Reference Models (business process flows) and the Retail Reference Architecture (integration diagrams, payloads, and so on).