Oracle Master Data Management

Architecture
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 Oracle Master Data Management High-Level Architecture

A single version of the truth record on every master entity such as product, customer,
supplier and site is generated by MDM. All transactional, analytical and operational
systems are fed by this master data across the enterprise.

Further drill down and granular analysis can be done directly on the master data.

Following diagram shows the major layers in the Oracle MDM architecture.

 The Data Governance layer consists of MDM based solutions for Governance.

 The MDM Applications layer consists of all operational pre-built MDM Data Hubs
and shared services and analytical MDM applications ex: Hyperion.

 Enterprise Data quality layer consists of Oracle Data quality tools for enrichment
and validation of data.

 Application Integration Architecture (AIA) links MDM Data to applications and

business processes across different domains ex: retail, telecom and PLM etc..

 Fusion Middle provides supporting Infrastructure.

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Operational MDM Applications

Oracle Customer Hub is a customer data integration (CDI) solution that enables
organizations to centralize information from heterogeneous systems, creating a single
view of customer information that can be leveraged across all functional departments
and analytical systems.

 Enhance the Customer Experience to provide targeted, differentiated customer

service and relevant information
 Improve Cross-Sell and Up-Sell Efforts with a complete picture of the existing
customer relationship
 Raise the Reliability of your Data with proven, purpose-built data quality

Oracle Product Hub enables organizations to centralize product information from

heterogeneous systems, as well as eliminate the challenge of fragmented product data.
The end result is a trusted, single view of products across the enterprise.

 Connect product information of manufacturers, suppliers, retailers, service

providers, and customers
 Manage relationships of items to suppliers and locations
 Leverage workbenches for publishing, data import and staging
 Apply specialized data quality techniques created to handle the intricacies of
product information

Oracle Site Hub enables a business to have a unified view of all aspects of sites in a
central place. As a data hub—it provides the capability to consolidate site information
into a master repository, govern the master data, provide abilities the life-cycle, and
provide views of related information.

Oracle Supplier Hub empowers applications with the ability to unify and share critical
information about an organization's supply base. Consolidated supplier information
enables companies to quickly onboard, evaluate and manage suppliers.

 Streamlines how organizations deal with suppliers across the enterprise

 Enforce compliance and standards on suppliers
 Extract supplier data from source systems, master them, and then publish them
back to those very systems
 Leverages same technology stack as Oracle Product Hub for greater
collaboration

Oracle Fusion Middleware Infrastructure Components

The product families use the following common core framework and infrastructure for
Oracle Fusion Applications:

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 Oracle Fusion Middleware Extensions for Applications (ApplCore) is an Oracle
Fusion Middleware extension which provides design time and runtime infrastructure
to help standardize complex development patterns for Oracle Fusion Applications. It
simplifies the development process of these patterns and provides a consistent user
experience. Examples of these patterns include extensibility (Flexfields), hierarchical
relationships (Trees), data security, and UI patterns.

 Oracle Enterprise Scheduler enables you to manage and schedule jobs for Oracle
Fusion Applications.
 Oracle Enterprise Crawl and Search Framework (ECSF) enables Oracle Fusion
Applications Search for performing full-text searches securely and simultaneously
against multiple logical business objects. Any application that connects to multiple
data sources or manages a significant amount of unstructured (non-database)
information—or both—needs advanced search capabilities so that application users
can easily locate and take action on data that is relevant to them.

Oracle Fusion Middleware Components

 Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF) provides an end-to-

end application framework that builds on Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java
EE) standards and open-source technologies to simplify and accelerate
implementing service-oriented applications for Master Data.

 Oracle Business Intelligence, a complete, integrated solution that provides

reporting and printing of Master Data.

 Oracle Data Integrator extracts, transforms, and loads data for the product
families.

 Oracle Enterprise Content Management is a comprehensive suite of digital

content management tools. These tools can be used across the enterprise to
cohesively track, manage, and dispose of content whether written, in digital
images, or as email.

 Oracle Enterprise Performance Management offers performance management

solutions for every budget and every phase of the management cycle, helping
managers formulate strategies for profitable growth, align strategies with
operational plans, and actively monitor day-to-day operations.

 Oracle HTTP Server provides a Web listener for applications and the framework
for hosting static and dynamic pages and applications over the Web. Based on
the proven technology of the Apache HTTP Server, Oracle HTTP Server includes
significant enhancements that facilitate load balancing, administration, and
configuration.

 Oracle Identity Management provides a shared infrastructure for all Oracle

applications. It also provides services and interfaces that facilitate third-party
enterprise application development. These interfaces are useful for application
developers who need to incorporate identity management into their applications.

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  Oracle SOA Suite provides a complete set of service infrastructure components
for designing, deploying, and managing composite applications. Oracle SOA
Suite enables services to be created, managed, and orchestrated into composite
applications and business processes. Composites enable you to easily assemble
multiple technology components into one SOA composite application.

 Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (Oracle SES) provides a search engine that
crawls the searchable objects in the Oracle Fusion Applications and indexes
them as documents. When the Oracle Fusion Applications user issues a search
query,

 Oracle WebCenter, an integrated set of components with which you can create
social applications, enterprise portals, collaborative communities, and composite
applications, built on a standards-based, service-oriented architecture.

 Oracle WebLogic Server, an enterprise-ready Java application server that

supports the deployment of mission-critical applications in a robust, secure,
highly available, and scalable environment. Oracle WebLogic Server is an ideal
foundation for building applications based on service-oriented architecture
(SOA).

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