1 Feature Summary
This chapter describes the feature enhancements in this release.
Noteworthy Enhancements
This guide outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in the Oracle Retail Xstore Office Cloud Service update and describes any tasks you might need to perform for the update. Each section includes a brief description of the feature, the steps you need to take to enable or begin using the feature, any tips or considerations that you should keep in mind, and the resources available to help you.
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Where new fields, User Interface (UI) changes, or glossary entries are introduced as part of a change, the portal owner may need to apply their own translations of the core system text.Column Definitions
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Feature: Provides a description of the feature being delivered.
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Module Impacted: Identifies the module impacted associated with the feature, if any.
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Scale: Identifies the size of the feature. Options are:
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Small: These UI or process-based features are typically comprised of minor field, validation, or program changes. There fore, the potential impact to users is minimal.
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Large: These UI or process-based features have more complex designs. Therefore, the potential impact to users is higher.
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Delivered: Is the new feature available for use immediately after upgrade or must the feature be enabled or configured? If no, the feature is non-disruptive to end users and action is required (detailed steps below) to make the feature ready to use.
- Customer Action Required: You must take action before these features can be used. These features are delivered disabled and you choose if and when to enable them.
Table 1-1 Noteworthy Enhancements
| Feature | Module Impacted | Scale | Delivered | Customer Action Required? |
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| Data Management | Small | With License | No | |
| Integration Management | Small | With License | No | |
| System Manager | Small | With License | No | |
| Reports | Small | With License | No | |
| Broadcaster | Small | With License | Yes | |
| NA | Large | With Oracle Retail Data Compute Cloud Service and Oracle Retail Data Storage Cloud Service subscriptions | Yes |
Resolved Issues
This release includes resolutions to logged issues in various functional areas. For specific descriptions of the resolved issues, see Noteworthy Resolved Issues.
New and Updated Options
This section describes the new and updated options.
Functional Enhancement
This section describes the functional enhancements for this release.
Hierarchy Manager Menu
The Hierarchy Management Menu has been implemented to maintain and organize nodes in the organization hierarchy and to view and configure the merchandise hierarchy.
Merchandise Hierarchy Levels
The Merchandise Hierarchy Levels has been implemented to define merchandise hierarchy levels. These defined levels can be mapped to the retailer’s merchandise hierarchy levels.
Integration Management — Update Key Button
The Integration Management Summary screen contains an Update Key button to update and test the integration. When generating a key, the user is instructed to file a service request for AMS to load and store the public key on the SFTP Server.
Attachments
The Attachments screen enables the retailer to export attachment files to access them from a configurable location.
Register Count Report
The Register Count Report lists the total number of registers for the entire organization and a breakdown of the number of registers for each store - those with transactions and those without transactions.
Enhanced Email Publishing
Enhanced email publishing allows retailers to choose third-party applications to create receipts that are emailed to customers.
Retail Data Store (RDS)
RDS Availability
Oracle Retail Data Store enables retailers to unlock the value of their data through a comprehensive set of tools, enabling virtually unlimited extensibility while abstracting those workloads from those of the original Oracle Retail cloud services. This toolset allows the retailer to create a wide variety of functionality that they can tailor specifically to their own business processes. Examples include custom web services to expose specific data elements, custom integration (inbound and outbound), reporting and analytics, and custom user interfaces for capture retailer-specific data.
A separate subscription different from Xstore Office Cloud Service is required for Oracle Retail Data Store, which is composed of two parts:
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Oracle Retail Data Compute Cloud Service – this portion of the subscription covers compute resources available to the cloud service and allows a retailer to add compute to their solution as necessary for their extensions.
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Oracle Retail Data Storage Cloud Service – this portion of the subscription covers data storage resources available to the cloud service and allows a retailer to add storage to their solution as necessary for these extensions.