Enterprise Install Base utilizes the Oracle Install Base as its data repository. Every transaction that Enterprise Install Base tracks records is in the IB transaction table and each record affected by such transactions records in the instance and instance history tables.

Install Base: Oracle Install Base is a tracking of item instance life cycle that facilitates enterprise-wide life cycle item management and tracking capability.

Customer Install Base: Oracle Install Base is a tracking of item instance life cycle that facilitates customer's item management and tracking capability.

Oracle Install Base provides links to detailed information from Inventory, Order Management, contracts, service requests, repair orders initiated for an item instance, and counters associated with the item instance.