Recently I read interesting book about data migration and consolidation published by PACKT Publishing titled “Oracle Information Integration, Migration, and Consolidation”.
Whole book is split into 9 chapters covering different areas of this complicated topic. In my opinion this book is intended for architects or anyone who want to have a general overview of data migration and integration based on Oracle tools. You can find some details there as well but this book is covering too many tools to do a deep dive into each of them.
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Information Integration
This is a overview of data and process integration challenges and general approaches. Some high level use cases are presented as well.
Chapter 2: Oracle Tools and Products
This chapter is describing all major tools created or acquired by Oracle Corp. and used for consolidation, migration or data exchange. It is a general overview and can be used as easier way to go thought all application owned by Oracle.
Chapter 3: Application and Data Integration Case Study
Proof of Value (POV) for insurance company is a case study described in this chapter. This project include process and data integration using Oracle BPEL between mainframe VSAM, flat files, COBOL application, MQ Series and Oracle database. Author is presenting his findings and solutions to migrate one of business process in organization. Using step by step approach and Oracle SOA Suite project achieve all goals and bring some more benefits for organization.
Chapter 4: Oracle Database Migrations
There are many way to migrate data from one database to other and between versions of this same database. A few ways are mentioned here but author focused on migration from non-oracle database to Oracle database using SQL Developer. All important steps are presented and everyone can try to reproduce it on his own test environment.
Chapter 5: Database Migration Challenges and Solutions
Database migration is a tough projects and list of well know problems described in this chapter is a good point to start thinking about it. Most of RDBMS systems have their own ways to tread null/not-null columns, objects names have a different rules and procedural language running inside database is not a standard neither. Addressing most of these issues before starting a project is a good way to avoid unexpected results at the end.
Chapter 6: Data Consolidation and Management
Trusted data sources are one of base requirements in every enterprise application or reporting tools. Oracle solutions like Oracle Master Data Management Suit is presented here as an answer to these needs. Beside that some other solutions like data centric consolidation solution using in-memory TimesTen database or application centric data consolidation using Oracle Coherence are presented as well.
Chapter 7: Database-centric Data Integration
Database centric data integration is based on continuous data exchange process in heterogeneous database environment. Two very powerful products are presented here: Oracle GoldenGate and Oracle Data Integrator. In addition to that Oracle Gateways (Heteregeneous Services Agent) is presented as well. This chapter together with chapter 4 are most technical and detailed ones.
Chapter 8: Application and Process Integration
This chapter is presenting history of Oracle application and process integration solutions over the years. Starting with basic export / import tables for Oracle Apps and ending with Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle SOA Suite.
Chapter 9: Information Lifecycle Management for Transactional Applications
Last chapter is covering problem of data and application retention. How and how long data have to be kept in database, how to managed them and how to deal with application retirement process.
I can recommend that book for every one who want to have a general overview of Oracle approach to integration problems. As I said before one book can’t cover all technical problems/issues but it is good starting point to enter integration world.
regards,
Marcin
Whole book is split into 9 chapters covering different areas of this complicated topic. In my opinion this book is intended for architects or anyone who want to have a general overview of data migration and integration based on Oracle tools. You can find some details there as well but this book is covering too many tools to do a deep dive into each of them.
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Information Integration
This is a overview of data and process integration challenges and general approaches. Some high level use cases are presented as well.
Chapter 2: Oracle Tools and Products
This chapter is describing all major tools created or acquired by Oracle Corp. and used for consolidation, migration or data exchange. It is a general overview and can be used as easier way to go thought all application owned by Oracle.
Chapter 3: Application and Data Integration Case Study
Proof of Value (POV) for insurance company is a case study described in this chapter. This project include process and data integration using Oracle BPEL between mainframe VSAM, flat files, COBOL application, MQ Series and Oracle database. Author is presenting his findings and solutions to migrate one of business process in organization. Using step by step approach and Oracle SOA Suite project achieve all goals and bring some more benefits for organization.
Chapter 4: Oracle Database Migrations
There are many way to migrate data from one database to other and between versions of this same database. A few ways are mentioned here but author focused on migration from non-oracle database to Oracle database using SQL Developer. All important steps are presented and everyone can try to reproduce it on his own test environment.
Chapter 5: Database Migration Challenges and Solutions
Database migration is a tough projects and list of well know problems described in this chapter is a good point to start thinking about it. Most of RDBMS systems have their own ways to tread null/not-null columns, objects names have a different rules and procedural language running inside database is not a standard neither. Addressing most of these issues before starting a project is a good way to avoid unexpected results at the end.
Chapter 6: Data Consolidation and Management
Trusted data sources are one of base requirements in every enterprise application or reporting tools. Oracle solutions like Oracle Master Data Management Suit is presented here as an answer to these needs. Beside that some other solutions like data centric consolidation solution using in-memory TimesTen database or application centric data consolidation using Oracle Coherence are presented as well.
Chapter 7: Database-centric Data Integration
Database centric data integration is based on continuous data exchange process in heterogeneous database environment. Two very powerful products are presented here: Oracle GoldenGate and Oracle Data Integrator. In addition to that Oracle Gateways (Heteregeneous Services Agent) is presented as well. This chapter together with chapter 4 are most technical and detailed ones.
Chapter 8: Application and Process Integration
This chapter is presenting history of Oracle application and process integration solutions over the years. Starting with basic export / import tables for Oracle Apps and ending with Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle SOA Suite.
Chapter 9: Information Lifecycle Management for Transactional Applications
Last chapter is covering problem of data and application retention. How and how long data have to be kept in database, how to managed them and how to deal with application retirement process.
I can recommend that book for every one who want to have a general overview of Oracle approach to integration problems. As I said before one book can’t cover all technical problems/issues but it is good starting point to enter integration world.
regards,
Marcin
