The Data Integration Hub enables data exchange between OFSAA and external systems. This is facilitated through logical abstraction of the OFSAA Data Foundation (Financial Services Data Foundation and Insurance Data Foundation) exposed as Application Data Interfaces (ADI). External Data Sources (EDS) and External Data Descriptors (EDD) are defined through the DIH user interface, which also facilitates the mapping of EDDs to ADIs, forming Connectors.
DIH publishes information on ADI, EDS, EDD, and Connectors, alongside other relevant metadata, to Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), which delivers high-performance data movement and transformation among enterprise platforms with its open and integrated E-LT architecture and extended support for Big Data.
DIH does not supplant ETL tools or processes. Instead, it provides a logical abstraction of physical attributes in FSDF and OIDF, allowing user interaction in business terms while defining data exchange tasks, without adding any additional overhead or hops upon execution of data movement. DIH also shields users from modeling complexities of Data Foundation, especially when it comes to handling data around slowly changing dimensions (SCD).
Factory integration between select Oracle applications and OFSAA is also rendered over DIH. Such applications currently include banking platforms (FLEXCUBE and OBP), change management solutions (DRM), and accounting platforms (FAH and FAHC). Note that, such factory integration is rendered through additional modules, the details of which are available from respective user guides.