Platform Manager Business Overview

Owned by Ioana Kocurova
Last updated: Sept 04, 2024
3 min read

PlatformManager serves as the backbone of Pricefx, enabling users, partners, and customers to set up and manage partitions, integrate with third-party systems, deploy connectors and accelerators, and pull in data seamlessly. It promotes self-sufficiency, transparency, and accelerates time to value for all users.

PlatformManager is available to all customers/partners.

IT admins, integration engineers, and internal Pricefx customer support teams are among the primary beneficiaries of the PlatformManager. It empowers them to streamline administrative tasks and enhance operational efficiency. PlatformManager contributes significantly to enhancing user experience by simplifying administrative tasks and promoting independent management within Pricefx applications.

Key Features and Functionalities

  • Account Management

  • Version Control and Upgrades

  • Data Uploads

  • Deployment of Pre-Built Solutions

  • Marketplace Access

  • Product Feedback Submission

  • Integration Monitoring

  • Data Uploads to partitions

  • Integration manager instances

  • Accelerators

  • Integration templates

  • Notifications

  • Upgrades schedulling

  • Partitions

  • Logs

  • Product requests

Account Management: Add new Pricefx joiners, define their permissions, and handle other user-based administrative tasks.

Version Control and Upgrades: Track application versions, check upgrade statuses and schedules, and manage release upgrades (in private environments).

Data Uploads: Manually upload customer data, product data, or transaction data from third-party systems to your Pricefx partitions.

Deployment of Pricefx Pre-Built Solutions: Add out-of-the-box solutions (e.g., accelerators and connectors) for quicker integration and price setting.

Marketplace: Access the marketplace for selecting the pre-built solutions mentioned, plus integration templates.

Product Feedback: Submit direct product feedback to the Pricefx product team and monitor the progress of those requests.

Integration Monitoring: Monitor data integration job progress, manage integration workflows and receive real-time notifications to stay updated on partition job statuses.

Access and Automation

Users can access the PlatformManager via platform.pricefx.com with assigned permissions. Automation capabilities include automatic data transfers using the Integration Manager for enhanced efficiency.

Support and Training

Comprehensive support and training resources are available at:

Integration and Security

PlatformManager seamlessly integrates with various parts of the software, ensuring a cohesive user experience. Data security is paramount, with granular permissions and restricted access to ensure privacy.

Future developments include integrations on Google Cloud Platform, partition provisioning, event orchestration improvements, and more granular Data Upload permissions. Continuous user feedback drives improvements and bug fixes in each release.

PlatformManager Functionality in Projects

The PlatformManager's role is to enable users with a PlatformManager login to administer and maintain their unique Pricefx assets, such as partitions and IntegrationManager instances. Users can conduct essential partition management tasks like creating, cloning, migrating, and deleting partitions, as well as managing version control and access entitlements.

Moreover, PlatformManager allows users to create and manage IntegrationManager instances, facilitating tasks such as updating instance details, starting and stopping instances, and deleting instances. The IntegrationManager instance plays a crucial role in managing the connection to partitions and providing data transport services for data uploads and customer integrations.

In a project context, after defining user requirements and developing the data model, the next step involves creating partitions for the project. The initial phase of building the Pricefx solution includes implementing partitions for development, quality assurance, and production variations.

Through the PlatformManager product, users can:

  • Create and manage all partitions

  • Upload master data into partitions (e.g., Customer and extensions, Product and extensions, price parameters, transactions)

  • Manage access privileges using Asset Groups

  • Create and manage Business Roles

  • Configure and set up Single Sign-On (SSO) functionality

This streamlined approach empowers users to efficiently manage their Pricefx assets and streamline project workflows effectively.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Less support tickets created

  • Better time to value

  • It’s a front-end for the IntegrationManager

  • Partition management

  • Deployment of accelerators into the partition

  • Displaying of different types of logs

PlatformManager streamlines administrative tasks within Pricefx applications, empowering system admins to manage, update, or track activities in the platform independently.

If users need to get things done on their own with minimal external support, they will benefit from using PlatformManager.

Designed with system administrators and configuration engineers in mind, Pricefx’s PlatformManager provides a centralized user interface (UI) to carry out many of the essential functions driving pricing activities in the application.

Like a control panel, PlatformManager allows users to perform foundational tasks like account and partition management, adding Pricefx out-of-the-box tools, and third-party system integration and monitoring. Pricefx users can sign up for this complimentary self-service tool any time to manage their Pricefx solutions.

 

 

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