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Guides for operators and power users with access to the Ambient Command Centre. Metric equations live under Integrator; this section covers product behavior.

In this section​

Open-Source Core pin in the product: Ambient Core in the platform (under Start Here).

What you see after login​

Each organization (tenant) has its own governed workspace. During onboarding you choose an industry pack from the Ambient Core catalog - that vertical sets default KPIs, suggested data options (dataset templates), and FP&A workspace lenses.

Typical areas in the Command Centre:

  • Onboarding - confirm organization profile, industry pack, and initial data connections.
  • Overview - executive snapshot of tracked metrics and recent activity.
  • FP&A Workspace - planning, variance, and industry-specific KPI views for your pack.
  • Data hub - map catalog data options to uploads, track fulfillment status, and open source detail.

From data options to KPIs​

Catalog metrics and data options are defined under Integrator (Reference catalog). Operator docs do not restate equations. In the app, metrics label what Overview and FP&A show; data options are the dataset templates you fulfill in Data hub.

Typical path for a derived KPI:

  1. Pick the data option your pack expects (see Reference catalog and the pack Data options section).
  2. Upload or enter data in the Data hub and complete field mapping for your organization.
  3. The hosted pipeline validates against governed products and publishes Gold outputs for your org.
  4. Overview and FP&A Workspace read those governed results (Core calc expressions run in the pipeline - not redefined here).

If a KPI stays empty, confirm the linked data option is fulfilled and pipeline status is healthy - see Data hub and Hosted pipeline.

How data flows (conceptual)​

Your uploads and connectors

Governed processing

Governed Gold products

In-app mirror

Command Centre
  1. Upload or connect - files and connector feeds are scoped to your organization.
  2. Processing - governed jobs validate and transform data into analytical products.
  3. Gold products - curated metrics and tables your organization is allowed to consume.
  4. In-app mirror - low-latency views for Overview, FP&A, and Data hub.
  5. External BI (optional) - approved sharing paths for Tableau or similar business-intelligence tools.

Three planes (keep separate)​

  • Reference catalog - Key performance indicator definitions, methodologies, calc expressions, and data options (Integrator single source of truth). Touch via onboarding, Data hub, and Reference catalog.
  • Contracts - Governed data products (schemas, lineage, service level agreements). Touch via pipeline status, org data panels, assurance workflows.
  • Gold - Computed analytical outputs. Touch via Overview, financial planning and analysis workspace, external business intelligence when enabled.

Catalog metric definitions differ from Gold values and from customer metrics in the online transaction processing layer. Catalog drives templates and labels. Gold holds pipeline results for your organization. Customer metrics hold org-scoped shared and data-owner private scorecards (platform pull requests 163 and 165).

Customer metrics and data owner​

Organization profile stores dataOwnerUid. The data owner creates, deletes, and redefines customer metrics. Members enter values on shared metrics. Private metrics belong to the data owner inside that organization. See Governed metrics in the app and Feature ledger.

Open-Source Core vs this product​

Integrators embed ambient-core (MIT) in their own stacks. The commercial Command Centre adds multi-tenant hosting, the medallion pipeline, and workspace features on top of the same catalog and contracts story. Comparison: Core vs platform.