Designed and built for all the key constituents within your organization, the ATG Control Center (ACC) provides a single point of access for all of the development, administration, content, and business functions necessary to run your e-business. It provides a unified interface that combines the functionality your team members need into one Java application. By providing a truly collaborative environment, the ACC greatly reduces your project overhead and development time.
Features and benefits for business managers
ABILITY TO LEVERAGE YOUR BUSINESS EXPERTISE: The ACC puts the power of ATG Scenario PersonalizationSM in the hands of the people who can best implement it: business managers. Like never before, business managers can work with your IT team to develop, deploy, and analyze the key personalization, scenario, marketing, commerce, and self-service initiatives of the Web site. Using built-in reporting and analytics, they can generate detailed metrics to fine-tune campaign effectiveness.
RISK-FEE TRIAL AND ERROR: The ACC is an easy-to-use environment in which business professionals can drive campaigns with unparalleled speed and flexibility. They can manage content and profile attributes, define business rules for targeted content, and create promotional strategies. More importantly, managers can validate their work by testing the rules they've created by "impersonating" a particular user with specific profile attributes and viewing parts of the application as that user. They can also cross-reference scenarios and view reports to help manage large numbers of active scenarios and avoid potential conflicts.
ACCESSIBILITY: The ACC is designed to be used on the business manager's desktop and can be used to manage ATG applications running on remote servers.
Features and benefits for ATG system administrators
CENTRALIZED PERFORMANCE MONITORING: The ACC provides a console for system administrators to view and monitor server configurations and performance.
SIMPLIFIED SYSTEM TUNING: The ACC component structure allows administrators to easily configure ATG system attributes, such as load balancing and cache settings.
CUSTOMIZABLE SECURITY SERVICES FOR YOUR ATG PROJECTS: The ACC Security Management Interface enables administrators to manage ATG user accountsand privileged information with minimal programming. Using the ACC, they can manage persistent user accounts, look up user identities and associate them with roles, manage access control lists, and tie together multiple security systems against the same user account databases and/or authentication mechanisms.
Features and benefits for ATG site developers
RAPID DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT: The developer area of the ACC is an easy-to-use interface for the quick creation of components and pages for ATG projects.
EXTENSIVE ATG COMPONENT LIBRARY: The ATG Adaptive Scenario Engine ships with pre-built and customizable components, which are ready to use in your most sophisticated e-business projects.
EFFICIENT MODIFICATION OF EXISTING COMPONENTS: The ACC component browser presents the property values of existing components and allows them to be changed, even in a running application. Developers can easily manage both objects and their Java classes.
Features and benefits for page designers and content professionals
EASY TO USE AUTHORING ENVIRONMENT: The ACC includes easy-to-use page templates to quickly build your ATG site. Content managers and page developers use the ACC to build dynamic Web pages using JSPs, JavaBeans, and JHTML. A context-sensitive editor and component palette make page design as easy as drag-and-drop.
CENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT: If designers prefer to author pages in a different environment, those pages can be imported to the ACC for translation to JHTML (if desired). This achieves simplified, centralized management of site design elements.
SIMPLIFIED CONTENT, DATA, AND ASSET CONTROL: The ACC provides access to all content items (all types of electronic media) for your sites stored in searchable content repositories. Content in these repositories is quickly and easily managed, grouped, and accessed for high performance, personalized delivery through multiple channels, including Web sites, e-mail, and wireless devices.