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 An Oracle White Paper

[January] [2014]

Oracle Warehouse Builder to Oracle DataIntegrator Quick Start Guide

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Introduction

Just when you thought you had a great Extract, Load  – Transform (EL-T) system in place,

along comes disruption in the Big Data world. And increasingly enterprises find that Cloud’s

cost benefits are too good to ignore. This is a dilemma that is both rewarding and challenging.

On one hand Big Data technologies like NoSQL and Hadoop are helping store all kinds of data

to analyze. And on the other hand enterprise data resides within relational and specialist

databases within their Information Technology systems. As enterprises stand at this data-

technology crossroad pondering on how to tackle them it becomes important that they choose

the right technology to deal with the data. In this paper we explore how the latest Oracle Data

Integrator (ODI) 12c release unifies the Oracle Warehouse Builder to Oracle Data Integrator.

We also introduce the Oracle Warehouse Builder Migration Utility to help migrate your OWB

infrastructure to ODI with minimal disruption to your business and IT operations.

Why move from Oracle Warehouse Builder to Oracle DataIntegrator

 With the last release of Oracle Warehouse Builder being the terminal release for the product Oracle is

committed to protecting our Oracle Warehouse Builder’s investment in the technology. With Oracle

Data Integrator occupying the role of Oracle’s Strategic EL-T technology (as explained in our

Statement of Direction for Oracle Warehouse Builder ) our customers will find it extremely easy to take

advantage of the heterogeneous connectivity,

performance enhancement and solution

integration that Oracle Data Integrator offers.

Oracle supports a phased migration approach that

 will help Oracle Warehouse Builder customers

slowly migrate their existing infrastructure and

logic to an Oracle Data Integrator environment

through the use of migration utilities. Tighter run

time integration with Oracle Warehouse Builder

translates to execution and monitoring of OWB

jobs in ODI, and OWB repository management

in ODI. A well thought out support policy and

increasing functionality rapidly being added to Oracle Data Integrator emphasizes Oracle’s

commitment to delivering the right vision to our customers.

Oracle Warehouse Builder has long served as an ELT product for many of our customers. However

there are very distinct advantages in moving to ODI from OWB. ODI is an EL-technology. By

selecting EL-T vs ETL as your standard your enterprise realizes these following benefits.

The credit r isk team of Royal Bank of Scotland sees the

benef its of a modernization in EL-T technology almostinstantly. It used to take 3-9 months for data from their

transaction al systems to reach their data Warehouse. With

the installat ion of Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle

GoldenGate it now takes a matter of days and weeks for th e

data to be refreshed. The actual process o f migration from

their Oracle Warehouse Builder solu tion to the recent

Oracle Data Integrator solution w as also a smooth and

ef f ic ient one with the help o f migrat ion ut i l i t ies and with no

loss of intellectual property.

- Royal Bank of Scot land  

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a.  EL-T uses set-based transformations and eliminates bottle necks in data reading and increases

efficiency.

b.  It reduces network hops and eliminates the middle-tier which delivers high data loading

performance.

 When working with exponentially large and complex data, these are factors that decide if your users

and business can trust the data to make critical decisions.

In addition ODI

  Integrates and works with all traditional source systems like ERP s, Data Bases, Flat Files etc.

  Is built for emerging technologies like Big Data, Social Data, Cloud and Mobile.

  Delivers high performance and low Total Cost of Ownership, and

  Is Flexible, lightweight and easy to enrich functionally.

Getting Started

Enterprises are already lining their EL-T investments to take advantage of the advancements in Big

Data, Processing and Business Analytics. Securing a solid technology for your data is the first step

towards IT and business trust and excellence. As the technology landscape undergoes a sea change in

dealing with data, now is the right time to explore the options and align your EL-T technology to your

organizational goals.

Here are top pointers to get started on the migration.

a. ODI 12c supports an easy mapping between OWB 11gR2 concepts and objects and their ODI

12c counterparts. A migration utility is provided that automatically translates many OWB objectsand mappings into their ODI equivalents. For more information about the migration utility,

see  About the Migration Utility. 

b.  List out the objects that are migrated and those that have to be migrated manually . 

c.  Create a roadmap for migration including

a.  Reviewing source and target System requirements

b.  Configuration, running and review of the migration utility

c.  Reviewing migration utility report for exclusions and reconciliation.

d.  Get expert help through our Partner Network

e.  For a detailed walk through of the process with explicit instructions use this guide. 

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Fig 1: Migrat ion stat is t ics f rom the OWB Migrat ion ut i l i ty . For m ore detai ls  cl ick here . 

 About Oracle Data Integrator

Oracle Data Integrator is Oracle’s strategic EL-T technology. With patented user and enterprise design

elements that enhance productivity and extreme performance Oracle Data Integrator offers a future

proof investment for EL-T customers. It also underpins many Oracle Business Application solutions

and occupies a central role in the Oracle ecosystem. The Oracle Management Pack for Oracle Data

Integrator is an additional component that allows enterprises consolidate monitoring and managingtheir Oracle Data Integrator infrastructure throughout their organization. Oracle Data Integrator

already offers pre built components supporting Hadoop and Cloud standards and is engineered to

 work with multiple Oracle and Non Oracle sources ensuring vastly expanded heterogeneous

connectivity.

For more information about Oracle Data Integrator and the Oracle Warehouse Builder migration

utility  go to the oracle Data Integrator home page

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