What is PlatformManager?
The role of PlatformManager is to allow us (anyone with a PlatformManager login) to administer and maintain our unique Pricefx assets like partitions and IntegrationManager instances.
By using PlatformManager, we can perform all of the necessary partition management activities; creating, cloning, migrating and deleting, perform version control management, managing access entitlements and creating new users).
Additionally, we can use it to create and manage our IntegrationManager instances and perform common tasks; updating details, starting and stopping instances and deleting our instance) . The IntegrationManager instance will manage the connection to our partition and through this connect it will allows us to perform data uploads, schedule data migrations and install Pricefx Accelerators.
How is it used within a project?
Once we have defined our user requirements and developed our data model, the next step would the creation of our partition(s) for our project. The starting point of actually building the Pricefx solution will be the implementing of partitions for dev, qa and production variants.
Depending on your role and access rights, through the PlatformManager product we can do the following:
Create and manage all my partitions
Upload master data into partitions (Customer and extensions, Product and extensions, price parameters, transactions, etc)
Manage users and their permissions
Manage my combinations of partitions and integrations using Asset Groups.
Create and manage my Business Roles
Configure and setup an SSO
What are common PlatformManager scenarios?
The PlatformManager product can be used for these common project-related scenarios:
Creation of a dev partition for my project.
Perform upload of data into partition’s Product master table
View and modify partition feature flags
Setup alerts and notifications rules for integration processes
Manage and administer my integrations (routes, mappings, connections, etc)
View partition activity and deployment log files
Create and manage user groups, asset groups and business roles for partitions
Request version upgrades for your Pricefx cluster
Configure your instance for single sign-on (SSO) using Identity Provider (Salesforce, Active Directory, etc)
Use integration templates linked to your partition for importing or exporting data
Installation of Accelerators or Accelerator Packages into your partition
View approval workflows for activities within PlatformManager (partition creation, permission assignments, etc)
PlatformManager Key Capabilities
The capabilities of PlatformManager are separated into key sections; Account, Marketplace, Product Requests and Administration.
Account
This area will summarize for the specific customer or partner account and includes information on; partitions, integrations, notifications, log files, reports. user access, cluster upgrades and SSO.