Oracle Communications business solutions require definitions of data types and structures that are managed within and passed among multiple applications. Modeling these data types and structures consistently across products enables reuse of data modeling constructs and simplifies product integration.
A design-time data model represents the data configuration required by your solution design. When designing your data model, you define simple and structured data elements once (in data schemas) and leverage those definitions across multiple products. Oracle Communications Design Studio refers to the conceptual collection of all data schemas and data types in the workspace as the Data Dictionary. The Data Dictionary is a logical repository of data types and structures and the key reference point for consistent modeling of data within the solution design.
When modeling data in Design Studio, see the following topics: