Using Enterprise Options Management

The Enterprise Options Management (EOM) application is a centralized tool for managing parameter values for the servers and the POS terminals across a retailer’s Enterprise. The values for the parameters can be configured to meet the business needs of the retailer. When the configured parameters are deployed to specific POS terminals across the enterprise, the POS terminals are updated with the configured features.

EOM provides the following major functions:

• Manage options for the retailer’s Enterprise from a central location.
• Modify option values at any level in the Enterprise’s organizational hierarchy.
• Deploy options to specific levels in the Enterprise’s organizational hierarchy.
• Create and save a set of option changes called change sets.
• View status, history, and values of change sets.
• Display, modify, save, and deploy parameters by EOM parameter version.
• Remove old and unused EOM parameter versions and change set data.

In the EOM application, parameters are referred to as options. Thus, the following terms are used interchangeably in this publication:

• option or parameter
• option category or parameter category

The parameters contained in the EOM Server are specific to a release version. When there are features that have been added to the latest release version, the parameters available in the retailer’s EOM Server must be updated. Multiple parameter versions may exist when the Enterprise Solution Servers have been upgraded. For more information on upgrading the servers and the parameters, refer to Upgrading the Enterprise Solution Servers.