1. Oracle Data Hubs, concept to reality? Atlanta OAUG February 18th, 2005
Bill Dunham EAS Sr. Practice Director

2. Agenda Brief intro of Allstream Data Hubs General info What are they?
What are they not?
What do they do?
How do they work?
Are they new?
Getting started; general instructions
Wrap-up/Q&A

3. Who is Allstream?
Allstream is a leading communication solutions provider with a world-class portfolio of Connectivity, Infrastructure Management and IT Services.
US Offices in Cary, NC and Chicago, IL.
Headquartered in Toronto, Ontario
Some clients; NATO, JDS Uniphase, Corel, ADP, McGraw-Hill

4. A little about me… Bill Dunham
Sr. Practice Director, US & International
Many years of Oracle Technology and Applications Experience
Technology start in 1985
Applications start in 1991
Co-authored two Oracle Application books
Written and presented many Oracle technology and application white papers
Former Oracle employee

5. Data Hubs Getting started… Data Hubs
What are they and where did they come from?
A repository for data
Needs for legacy application, or non-Oracle application data to integrate with Oracle Applications
Remember two-phase commits?
Data maintained in multiple applications

6. Data Hubs Data Hubs, what are they?
A central data repository that cleanses and enriches data from a variety of sources

7. Data Hubs Data Hubs, what are they? A shared resource across
Any heterogeneous environment, with or without the Oracle eBusiness suite
Many transactional applications
Many operational data stores
Many data warehouses
Examples; third party applications, other ERP products, any transaction that meets the minimal data requirements of the hub

8. Data Hubs Data Hubs, what are they?
Create a single, enterprise view of data
A true “master file” for all enterprise applications
Other systems interface “real-time” with the hub
For the Customer data hub, the TCA is leveraged and at the heart of all transactions

9. Data Hubs Data Hubs, what are they? There are two pieces to the hub
The hub itself
Which runs on the latest version of the E-Business suite technology
Application Server
Oracle Database Version 9.R2
Integration Server
Enables companies to integrate processes

10. Data Hubs Data Hubs, what are they not? Not a data warehouse
data flows bidirectional to and from a hub
Data warehouses are typically unidirectional
they do not synchronize with their source
they do not allow updates of data

11. Data Hubs Data Hubs, what do they do? Data Synchronization
Data Cleansing
Data Enriching
Increased B-to-B integration
Increased application-to-application integration
And overall business process integration

12. Data Hubs Data Hubs, how do they work? PeopleSoft Mainframe Data Hubs
Web Applications
Data Hubs
Oracle Applications
Data from any source
Data flows bidirectional to and from hub
PeopleSoft
Mainframe

13. Data Hubs Data Hubs, are these products new?
Concept and some components are
Specifically, the Customer Data Hub (1/04)
Composed of a component of products
Oracle Customers On-line
Oracle Data Librarian
Oracle Customer Model

14. Data Hubs Data Hubs, are these products new?
New Hubs are offered by Oracle:
Product Data Hub – Centralize product information from disparate systems to create a single global catalog as a master for all other systems, departments, customer and suppliers.

15. Data Hubs Data Hubs, are these products new?
New Hubs are offered by Oracle:
Financial Consolidation Hub – Integrate and automate currency translation, inter-company eliminations, acquisitions, disposals and more.
Financial Services Accounting Data Hub 

16. Data Hubs Data Hubs, are these products new?
New Hubs are offered by Oracle:
Citizen Data Hub – Allows government agencies to create and manage a comprehensive citizen data repository.

17. Data Hubs Data Hubs, are these products new?
Each has proven themselves as a part of the Oracle E-Business Suite
The hubs, are becoming “master data management solutions”, not just “master files”!

18. Data Hubs Data Hubs, centralize without disruption.
Fragmented data, prohibits organizations from seeing complete and accurate picture
Hubs will centralize disparate applications/systems into one master
Interface real-time

19. Data Hubs Data Hubs, getting started.
Oracle provides bulk import facilities, leveraging data quality tools (CSV, interfaces, APIs, SOAP-based XML web services)
Duplicates are managed
Quality is verified
Data is standardized
Source systems cross-references are maintained as data is imported to hub

20. Data Hubs Data Hubs, improve your data management!
Duplicate, inaccurate, and incomplete data costs organizes time and money
Conventional approach is to separately clean and enrich data
Exchange data, and reconcile to data warehouse
Data hubs provide a set of data quality services that are performed centrally, one time, and propagated throughout the enterprise

21. Data Hubs Data Hubs, synchronization…
Services to facilitate hub and spoke integration
Hub: Workflow-Based Event System
announce activity within the hub
Communicates to relevant spoke systems via Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) solution like Oracle Apps Server 10g.
Spoke: Standards-based XML web services for creating, updating, and viewing information
Data Synch: EAI leverages the data spoke information source to store cross reference mapping between hub and spoke source system

22. Data Hubs Wrap-up Data hubs are an exciting new addition, they;
Allow organizations to create real corporate master files of data
Ease synchronization of data across all sources – real time
Provide superior data quality services – high quality data management
Improve enterprise knowledge of data by consolidation of disparate applications

23. Q&A Thank you for your time.
Bill Dunham x204

24. Reference Documentation
Oracle Announces Customer Hub, eWeek, January 2004.
Oracle Customer Data Hub: Frequently Asked Questions
Oracle Customers Online 11i
Oracle Customer Data Hub 11i
Oracle Customer Data Spoke 11i
Oracle Customer Data Hub; Customer Knowledge Through Information Quality
Oracle Customer Model 11i
Oracle Data Librarian 11i