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Oracle Information Integration, Migration, and Consolidation

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Oracle Information Integration, Migration, and Consolidation

Overview of this book

The book covers data migration, data consolidation, and data integration, the three scenarios that are typically part of the information integration life cycle. Organizations typically find themselves migrating data to Oracle and either later, or at the same time, consolidating multiple database instances into a single global instance for a department, or even an entire company. The business savings and technical benefits of data consolidation cannot be overlooked, and this book will help you to use Oracle's technology to achieve these goals. This highly practical and business-applicable book will teach you to be successful with the latest Oracle data and application integration, migration, information life-cycle management, and consolidation products and technologies.In this book, you will gain hands-on advice about data consolidation, integration, and migration using tools and best practices. Along the way you will leverage products like Oracle Data Integrator, Oracle GoldenGate, and SQL Developer, as well as Data Hubs and 11gR2 Database. The book covers everything from the early background of information integration and the impact of SOA, to products like Oracle GoldenGate and Oracle Data Integrator. By the end you'll have a clear idea of where information and application integration is headed and how to plan your own projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Oracle Information Integration, Migration, and Consolidation
Credits
About The Author
About the Contributing Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Data management at IHOP, a case study


The restaurant chain IHOP perfectly illustrates the 'on the ground' financial potential of the enterprise data hub model. IHOP's corporate headquarters realized that the organization lacked a view into its franchises and wanted better visibility into the day-to-day operations of each of its locations. Unfortunately, each franchise maintained its own data such as legal, finance, operations, marketing, and so on. Each franchise also had its own resources devoted to managing that data. As a result, poor business decisions were being made and operational errors were occurring too frequently. In short, executives and managers could not vouch for the very data they were relying on to make key business decisions.

IHOP has begun to deploy its version of a data hub — a franchise data hub to collect all the different 'silos' of information. In doing so, the company not only eliminated the need for multiple data managers, but also ensured that every department...