Jean-Pierre DijcksPrincipal Product ManagerOracle Warehouse BuilderOracle Corporation

Oracle Warehouse Builder

An Introduction

Agenda

Oracle Warehouse Builder:– Introduction– ETL and Schema Design– Metadata Management– Data Quality Management

Demonstrations:– Basic ETL Capabilities– Migrating Data and Metadata– Managing Changes

Summary Q & A

Introduction

What is Data Integration?

Consolidate date in one place (…) Commonly referred to as:

– ETT– ETL– Etc…

The one thing that will take a lot of time in your project plan

What is the need for Data Integration? Provide access to business data

– One source of the truth– Analysis– Summaries– Ad hoc query– Forecasts– Predictions

What does the Integration architecture consist of? Consolidate data

– Across systems

Define the target structures– Understandable (consolidated) presentation– Optimized for query retrieval

Set up this environment Manage this environment Maintain this environment

What Data Integration areas are covered by OWB? Consolidate data

– Across systems

Define the target structures– Understandable (consolidated) presentation– Optimized for query retrieval

Set up the environment Manage the environment Maintain the environment

How do I use OWB?Data structure designData structure design

Capture sourceCapture sourcedefinitionsdefinitions

ETL designETL design

Oracle 8i/9i/10g

Generate codeGenerate code

DeployDeploy

Extract and Transform DataExtract and Transform DataExtract and Transform DataExtract and Transform Data

Validate designValidate design

ETL and Schema Design

What design capabilities are there? Data structures:

– Dimensional– Relational

ETL processes:– Data flows– Process flows

End user access

Focus on ETL

Data Flows– The core of Extract, Transform and Load– Allows you to design individual extraction

routines– Graphical Editor

Process Flows– Groups several data flows– Contains many built-in activities such as

notification, fork, FTP etc…

Metadata

What Metadata Management features are supported? Security Version management Multi language support Java API access Scripting access Read-only access (web browser) Extensibility

Can I do difference Analysis?

What Lifecycle Management features are there? Re-import / reconcile source structures Graphical impact analysis Graphical lineage Upgrade target objects

Data Quality

What Data Quality features are there? Name & Address cleansing Matching/Merging records

– Straight forward lookups– Advanced matching (business rules)– Advanced merging (business rules)

Reporting on results

Demonstrations

Demonstrations

Comprehensive ETL Capabilities Migrating Data and Metadata Managing Changes (if time permits…)

Summary

You can manage any data movement using Warehouse Builder

You can migrate your data from a mainframe into Oracle with Warehouse Builder

You can easily switch your data movement to other sources with Warehouse Builder

You can manage the metadata in your system using Warehouse Builder

You can manage changes to your system with Warehouse Builder

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