How the Edunext Control Center (ECC) Works
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In this article, we explore the Edunext Control Center, a powerful management tool built with a wide range of features to help management teams navigate the complexities of configuring and running an Open edX platform. 

What ECC Is
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The ECC is a team-oriented application that aims to be the central place to locate and control all the details of your subscription with Edunext, your Open edX platform, your sites, your learners, courses, and everything in between, regardless of whether your platform is running out of Edunext’s cloud subscriptions, or in a stand-alone instance.

**Additional Information:**

:doc:`Get Started with ECC for Managers <../get_started/getting-started/>`

Read more about the `Edunext Control Center: A new way to manage your Open edX Platform <https://www.edunext.co/articles/edunext-control-center-blog/>`_.

How ECC Works
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Edunext’s years of experience in the field, empowering thousands of online learning initiatives worldwide with the Open edX platform, have helped us to identify some key gaps, and we have developed a tool to centralize and simplify the Open edX manager experience. 

Both the Open edX LMS and the Open edX Studio platform are great tools, but they have limited capabilities for some of the management operations that are needed, such as accessing platform-level objects like organizations and sites, making changes to the configurations, running management processes, accessing reports analytics.

Edunext is fully committed to continually bringing improvements and innovation to this management tool in order to help our subscribers make the most out of the Open edX technology.

To illustrate, often times there is only one LMS site, so you can think of it as a platform-wide object. However, when leveraging the multi-tenant capabilities provided by eduNEXT, you can request the creation of additional LMS sites and manage them independently.

At Edunext, our performance engineers and developers work diligently to optimize how applications talk to each other, and enable data transmission from one software product and another. They test, create and use domain-specific programming languages to optimize our clients' use of the Open edX platform, and many of these solutions are enabled by means of the ECC. 

Some features and improvements that we are currently working on are:
 - Enhancing site configuration capabilities.
 - Improving the access granularity for the different admin roles.
 - Improving the user experience and the user interface.

**Additional Information:**

Read more about the `Edunext Control Center: The best tool to manage your Open edX learning Management System <https://www.edunext.co/articles/edunext-control-center-the-best-tool-to-manage-your-open-edx-learning-management-system/>`_.

`Explore the different ways the Open edX platform can be adapted to your learning initiative <https://www.edunext.co/open-edx-demo/>`_.