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Oracle® Clinical Development Analytics User and Administrator Guide
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1 Getting Started with Oracle Clinical Development Analytics

This chapter contains the following topics:

Overview

Oracle Clinical Development Analytics (OCDA) is an analytical and transactional reporting application based on a predefined set of key performance indicators (KPIs), facts, and dimensions with support for predefined and custom reporting. OCDA also functions as a decision support system to monitor process bottlenecks and compliance deviations.

Clinical Development Organizations require insights into the following key Clinical Data Management and Clinical Trial Operations Management business processes areas that impact clinical trial performance:

OCDA provides mechanisms to gain operational and clinical insights to and evaluate performance of your clinical trials, and take corrective action to reduce cycle times.

What Can I Do Using Oracle Clinical Development Analytics?

OCDA integrates clinical trial performance data from Oracle Clinical, Oracle's Siebel Clinical, and additional sources where appropriate, into a predefined data warehouse schema and generates both predefined and custom reports of key metrics across the clinical development spectrum. OCDA lets you perform the following functions:

  • Extract all necessary clinical trial data from Oracle Clinical and Siebel Clinical into a predefined data warehouse, for viewing through the rich dashboard and report interface of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus (OBIEE).

  • Extract such data from other database sources as well, subject to the development of separate Extract Transform Load (ETL) programs for each database source.

  • View predefined analytical reports delivered with the application.

  • Rapidly create new reports using the extensive predefined cycle time, quality and volume based metrics across data management and clinical operations processes.

Architecture

Figure 1-1 The Oracle Clinical Development Analytics Architecture

This figure describes the OCDA architecture.
Description of "Figure 1-1 The Oracle Clinical Development Analytics Architecture"

The OCDA architecture includes the following principal components:

Reporting

OCDA provides reports for the following key functional areas:

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Regulatory Compliance

OCDA is designed as a single data-warehousing platform that facilitates integration of both non-regulated and regulated data. This single platform provides secure access to authorized users. It provides reduced total cost of ownership through reduced data integration costs and infrastructure maintenance costs, compared with multiple warehousing solutions.

The primary regulatory requirements include: (i) data tracking and (ii) Extract Transform Load (ETL) Version Management.

Tracking Data

The origin of any data displayed in a report must be traceable to its source, and all transformations applied to the data must be accessible. Data sourced from Oracle Clinical and Siebel Clinical is traced by the following criteria and rules:

  • Load: When the data was loaded from the source database into the staging tables.

  • Staging Mapping: The version of ETL mapping used to transform the data from source to staging table, and when it was executed.

  • Target Mapping: The version of ETL mapping used to transform the data from the staging table to target tables, and when it was executed.

  • Transformations and calculations performed on the data within the OBIEE Repository are versioned and saved permanently in Oracle LSH.

  • Calculations can also be performed in reports managed through OBIEE Answers. The OBIEE Answers Administrator is responsible for controlling what calculations are performed, and who can perform them.

Managing ETL Versions

Every time a new version of an ETL mapping is created, the previous version is saved and stored as a historical record of previous transformations. The new version is identified with a version number and creation date, and is executed as the current version. Oracle LSH records each execution of the ETL, and retains version and execution timestamp.

Security

Data within the data warehouse is secure from updates by unauthorized personnel, and can only be updated through controlled execution of ETL mappings.

The ability to modify ETL routines is restricted to a user group or role of ETL developers. Access to execute ETL routines is restricted to a specific privilege, which can be granted to a user group or role.

In addition, access to data is available for authorized personnel only constrained through user groups or roles.

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Chapter 6, Implementing Security