Introduction

When you're ready to convert data from your legacy system into Oracle Enterprise Taxation Management, you will have analyzed your requirements according to your business and organizational needs and set up the control tables accordingly.

Fastpath:

Refer to the Administration Guide for a complete discussion of the various control tables and the order in which they must be set up.

After the control tables are set up, you are ready to load data into the system from your legacy system. This conversion effort involves several steps as illustrated in the following diagram:

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The following points briefly outline each of the above tasks:

CAUTION:

Different Databases For Staging and Production. The above diagram illustrates how the system is configured to support the conversion effort in the standard installation, i.e., the staging tables are in the same database as the production tables (each with a different owner). However, it is possible for the staging tables to be in a separate database. This option requires additional effort on your part (because you would have to copy the control tables from production into your staging database). Please refer to Appendix B - Multiple Owners In A Single Database for information about this alternative.

Mapping legacy data into the system is probably the most challenging part of the conversion process because the system is a normalized database (and most legacy applications are not).

Note:

Control tables from production. It's important to notice that the validation programs validate your staging data using the control tables that have been set up in production. Refer to Appendix B - Multiple Owners In A Single Database for a description of how this works.