2. Jean-Pierre Dijcks Principal Product Manager Oracle Warehouse Builder Oracle Corporation

3. Oracle Warehouse Builder An Introduction

4. 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

5. Introduction

6. 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

7. What is the need for Data Integration?  Provide access to business data – One source of the truth – Analysis – Summaries – Ad hoc query – Forecasts – Predictions

8. 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

9. 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

10. How do I use OWB? Data structure design Capture source definitions ETL design Oracle 8i/9i/10g Generate code Deploy Extract and Transform Data Validate design

11. ETL and Schema Design

12. What design capabilities are there?  Data structures: – Dimensional – Relational  ETL processes: – Data flows – Process flows  End user access

13. 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…

14. Metadata

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

16. Can I do difference Analysis?

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

18. Data Quality

19. 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

20. Demonstrations

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

22. 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

23. A Q & Q U E S T I O N S A N S W E R S