Oracle president Chuck Phillips told the audience at
Oracle AppsWorld in San Diego that customers will be offered three
choices "to get higher quality information" out of their
systems.
For years Oracle has offered its customers one database, one
data model. But yesterday Phillips called full Oracle E-Business
suite deployment "choice A".
"This is recommended. It gives users a single, complete data
model and builds applications around that data model," he said.
However, with choices B and C, Phillips said the company would
open up its applications in ways it has never done before.
Choice B will focus on the E-Business suite with more "formal"
integration technologies embedded into the suite to work with
legacy applications.
Users could then "evolve into the E-Business suite over
time".
Oracle will open up the suite by building a services layer
between the suite and legacy applications using web services in
addition to packaging adapters, APIs, and using "data quality"
services.
Choice C, which Phillips called the Data Hub for Information
Access, is a layer that would sit between the business process
layer and the application servers, database, and storage layer.
The data hub would give users a single view of customer
definitions, allow for real-time synchronisation, include data
cleansing of duplicate data, and include single views of key
customer data such as order, contract, and service history.
"It will be a 360-degree view of the customer with pre-built
analytics," Phillips said.
The data hub will also include a single management and
development framework.
Ephraim Schwartz writes for InfoWorld
