efforts through reusable ETL logic. • Lower maintenance costs through better
insight into your projects. • Easier maintenance of the development/test/
production.
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ORACLE WAREHOUSE BUILDER IN ORACLE DATA INTEGRATOR ENTERPRISE EDITION KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS
Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition (ODI-EE) is a pricing FEATURES • Advanced data load options • Reusable “pluggable” ETL
mappings • Embedded slowly changing
dimension management • End-to-end, interactive data
lineage and impact analysis • Advanced configuration
management
bundle that includes functionality from two Oracle ETL products. This pricing bundle includes the Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) product and the enterprise-wide ETL functionality from Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB). Currently, these two products require separate installation and implementation. Going forward, the ODI functionality and enterprise-wide ETL functionality from OWB will be available in a single unified data integration technology platform.
BENEFITS
Users of each product will have a seamless, easy upgrade path to the
• Faster loads of large volumes
unified platform.
of bulk data through better use of Oracle Database features • More complex data
warehouse designs with less developer effort and fewer errors • Higher ROI on development
efforts through reusable ETL logic • Lower maintenance costs
through better insight into your projects
This datasheet highlights the key OWB features available in the pricing bundle Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition. Advanced Data Load Options Many enterprises face the realities of data volumes that grow larger and larger, and batch windows for loading data that grow shorter and shorter. In many cases, completing data loads in the available batch windows is difficult if not impossible with SQL-based loading techniques.
• Easier maintenance of the
development/test/production lifecycle
OWB automates loading data using fast and efficient methods such as Oracle Data Pump and transportable tablespaces. Moving data in bulk with these techniques results in greatly increased loading performance because large amounts of SQL processing are bypassed. Pluggable Mappings for Transformation Logic Reuse Pluggable mappings enable developers to reuse transformation logic. Pluggable mappings are an extension of OWB mappings that can be used like operators in other mappings- similar to calling a subroutine or function in most programming languages. The result is that developers can build complex transformations from smaller components, reuse them across a project, and share them among developers. This increases developer productivity, reduces rework and ensures consistency for complex tasks. Automatic Slowly Changing Dimension Support OWB automates the design and ETL for Type 1, Type 2 and Type 3 slowly changing dimensions (SCD). The SCDs are designed declaratively based on the dimension metadata. The definition of the dimension captures all logic that will be
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applied to the data loaded into the dimension.
Designing a Slowly Changing Dimension, Type 2
Once the business user has decided which attributes are important, the data modeler designs the dimension. The ETL developer sees and handles the dimension as any other dimension. OWB creates the slowly changing dimension loading logic automatically when generating PL/SQL code from the ETL mapping design, based on the slowly changing dimension type selected in the dimension definition. This smart handling of slowly changing dimensions eliminates one area of major ETL development effort. End-to-End Data Lineage and Impact Analysis OWB Enterprise ETL adds extensive interactive data lineage and impact analysis capabilities, down to the atribute level.
Propagating metadata changes through an entire system
With data lineage, you can prove where your data came from. Take any column in
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RELATED PRODUCTS AND SERVICES Oracle Warehouse Builder’s enterprise ETL functionality is a component of the ODIEE pricing bundle.
your data warehouse or other target and trace back the structural and data dependencies on upstream objects. With impact analysis, you can see the effects of proposed changes in your system design, such as changing the type or length of a column in a source, and proactively identify effects on downstream objects before these changes break your system. Start anywhere in your project and browse upstream lineage and downstream impacts of any object or attribute.
RELATED PRODUCTS
Change propagation lets you actually push the results of a design change
The following products are available from Oracle:
downstream to change the design of the affected objects. You can proactively
• Oracle Data Profiling and
manage changes throughout your system, rather than waiting for something to break.
Quality • Oracle Warehouse Builder
Application Adapters (SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel and Oracle eBusiness Suite) • Oracle Database
Advanced Configuration Management Promoting systems from one environment to another (for example, development to test to production) requires managing configuration details for multiple environments. Each environment has its own connection information and unique settings for parallelism and logging, for example.
• Oracle Partitioning • Oracle OLAP • Oracle Gateways
OWB’s multi-configuration feature enables you to define a single logical ETL design and associate it with many separate physical environments. From a common ETL design, OWB generates ETL code specific to each physical environment based on the settings and connection information you define. Contact Us For more information about Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition including OWB enterprise-wide functionality, please visit oracle.com or call +1.800.ORACLE1 to speak to an Oracle representative.
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