Oracle Site Hub - Overview

on Monday, May 2, 2011

Oracle Site Hub is a location mastering solution that enables organizations to centralize site and location specific information from heterogeneous systems, creating a single view of site information that can be leveraged across all functional departments and analytical systems. Site Hub has integrations to Property Manager, Assets Management and few other modules. Oracle Site Hub module is available from R12.1.1 version.
Site Hub Objects

Site - A site is defined as a place of business interest.
Hierarchy - Hierarchy provides a classification of relationships needed for the business.
Cluster - A group of Sites forms the Cluster.
Trade Area

Site Hub has two new responsibilites

Setup (Site Management Administrator)
The Site Administrator responsibility is mainly used for setting up the Attributes for all the Site Hub objects.Other set ups include Associating the UDA with Purpose and Pages, creating Results Format,Search Criteria,Value Sets for Attributes , Import/Export formats etc.

For capturing any data for Site/Hierarchy/Cluster the first step is to create the UDA ( User Defined Attributes). The UDA can be created by using the Site Administrator responsibility.Attribute groups can be single row or multi row. Every UDA needs to be assigned to a Purpose. Purpose can be of type Mail Box, Restaurant etc. It is an important step to be done before using it in Site or hierarchy.

Every AG will be associated to a Page. It can be added to a existing page or create  a new page and associate the AG to the page.

Site Home (Site Management User)

Site Management User responsibility is used for creating the Site Hub objects, Perform Advanced Search and manage the objects.After the UDA set up for the objects, the UDA's can be viewed while creating or viewing or updating the Site or any other object. The objects needs to be added to the same purpose where the AG is. Only then the UDA's are visible for the user.