Getting Smart with Your Business Data: Inside Oracle EBS Enterprise Command Centers (ECC) V9
In Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), it can be tough to quickly understand all your business information and make fast decisions. Old ways of creating custom reports often aren’t fast enough to help you make smart choices. This is where Oracle E-Business Suite Enterprise Command Centers (ECC) V9 comes in. It changes how people use their business data by providing easy-to-use, interactive dashboards.
ECC V9 is a big focus for Oracle E-Business Suite because it helps users find information easily. It lets you spot important tasks and act on them without needing special reports. Version 9 has a lot to offer: 34 dashboards and 138 new features and visuals, covering many different parts of Oracle E-Business Suite.
How ECC V9 Works:
The core of Oracle ECC is made of three main parts that work together smoothly to help you find and see your data:
- What You See (Client User Interface): This is the part you use. It shows you charts, guides you through information, and lets you search for things. These interactive parts are built using special Oracle tools called JET components.
- Behind the Scenes (Service Interface): This part handles all the background work. It deals with loading data, asking for data, and managing how data is described, making sure everything is ready for you to see.
- The Brains (ECC Core): This is the heart of the ECC system. It has a special search engine for text, a place to store data, and the rules for combining information, getting data, processing it, making new calculations, and guiding you to discover insights from raw data.
What’s New and Great About ECC V9?
ECC V9 has many features to help you find information easily:
- Clear Pictures of Data: You get important key numbers (KPIs), advanced charts, word clouds, connection diagrams, and tables that group information together.
- Smart Search & Filters: It helps you find things easily, lets you do advanced searches, keeps track of the filters you’ve used, and lets you save your searches for later.
- Better Ways to Discover Information in V9:
- You can see timelines of events from different parts of your business, with mixed views, event groups, and icons to show importance.
- Improved pivot tables that can show different details, are easier to read, and let you reorder rows and columns as you use them.
- You can add calculations to dates, like finding the earliest or latest date, or doing calculations between different dates.
- It handles accounting structures and special codes (Key Flexfields) dynamically, meaning segment names and their order are captured automatically.
Easy Setup and Strong Security
Oracle ECC is made to fit right into your current EBS system. You need EBS version 12.2.4 or newer, WebLogic Server 12c (version 12.2.1.2), and Linux 7 as your operating system. For the ECC’s middle part, you should have at least a 4-core processor, 32 GB of memory, and 80 GB of disk space.
Security is very important and uses your existing EBS security rules. This means security is checked at different levels:
- Application level: Based on what roles you have been given.
- Page level: Using special permissions and sets of permissions linked to your roles.
- Data level: Using EBS data security for each area, like your organization ID, inventory location, or specific content areas.
Also, ECC dashboards link directly to EBS Oracle Applications Framework (OAF) pages, EBS Forms, and your own custom APEX Pages. This lets users get more details and take action without leaving what they are doing.
How Data Moves and Stays Fast
Data in Oracle ECC starts when people do tasks in the ERP system. ECC then pulls this data from the original system using special programming (SQL and PL/SQL) and keeps track of its status. It then brings this data into ECC datasets so that the pages show up-to-date information.
An administrator starts data loads using a program in EBS. This can be a Full Load (all data) or an Incremental Load (only new data). To make data loading faster, you can adjust settings like ir.fullload.threads (how many pull jobs run at once), ir.push.threads (how many push jobs run at once), and ir.job.threads (how many ingest threads per job).
Making It Your Own and Using the Cloud
One great thing about ECC is that you can change it to fit your needs. You can:
- Create new dashboards for different job roles or copy existing ones.
- Add more data to replace old custom reports.
- Change dashboards as your business needs change.
- Even do advanced changes like creating new data sets, defining how data loads, and building new applications.
- Personalize pages directly from EBS, adding or swapping out visuals and defining specific functions.
If you’re interested in cloud computing, Oracle ECC can be set up on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) along with EBS using a ready-made Cloud Marketplace Image. This brings many advantages: reliable high speed, quicker setup of services, top-notch security, and fast deployment and updates. ECC can also be set up to keep working even if one part fails (High Availability), by using multiple ECC nodes with a load balancer.
Conclusion
Oracle E-Business Suite Enterprise Command Centers (ECC) V9 offers a strong, connected, and customizable way to find information and get real-time insights into your operations. By using EBS security and providing a complete framework, ECC helps businesses quickly identify and act on important tasks. If your company wants to improve how it understands data from EBS, ECC V9 is something to explore!
