1 Introduction

Oracle Omnichannel Cloud Data Service (OCDS) is a data hub, enabling Oracle Retail Merchandising and Pricing applications to share foundation data with Oracle Retail Omnichannel applications. OCDS contains the following components:

• BDI Batch Job Admin - Enables in-bound data flow into OCDS using Oracle Bulk Data Integration (BDI) technology. Job Admin has a User Interface (UI) to support the management of BDI batch Jobs.

• RIB Injector - Enables in-bound data flow into OCDS from the Oracle Retail Integration Bus (RIB).

• ORDS - Enables out-bound data flow from OCDS to Omnichannel Applications through the use of RESTful web services.

Figure 1-1 OCDS Components

OCDS Topology

The diagram below illustrates the basic deployment topology for OCDS. Alternatively, each OCDS component can be hosted in its own WebLogic Managed Server.

Figure 1-2 Basic Deployment

• BDI-JA: OCDS (BDI) Job Admin is the interface between the Oracle Retail Bulk Data Integration and OCDS, enabling BDI data to flow into the OCDS database.

• RIB-INJECTOR: OCDS (RIB) Injector is the interface between RIB infrastructure and OCDS; it listens for SOAP-based RIB messages containing incremental changes to data initially populated through BDI.

• ORDS: The OCDS (ORDS) Web Service exposes the data managed by OCDS to Omnichannel applications.