Administering Data Relationship Management Applications

Oracle Data Relationship Management uses applications to manage data and service user requests for accessing and changing data. A single Data Relationship Management installation can support one or more applications. Each application uses its own system metadata and security configuration to manage and access data. The same application can support multiple data sets and multiple users with various levels of access to common and restricted sets of data. However, all system metadata within an application is shared and administered by the same users. Any changes to system metadata take effect immediately and all users and data may be affected. If different user groups need to be isolated from any metadata changes being made by another group, it is recommended that each group use a separate application.

Applications are created in the Configuration Console which is accessible from the Data Relationship Management primary application server. For more information on creating a new application, see "Creating an Application" in the Oracle Data Relationship Management Installation Guide .

A new Data Relationship Management application includes core metadata objects such as property definitions and categories and a default administrative user. This initial configuration enables the default user to perform four tasks to build, populate, and provision the application:

• Create versions and hierarchies

• Define user metadata objects such as queries, compares, imports, blenders, and exports

• Set up and configure system metadata objects including domains, property definitions, validations, and node types

• Add users and configure security to access product features, objects, and data

This guide covers the administration tasks related to system metadata and user security for Data Relationship Management applications. See the Oracle Data Relationship Management User's Guide for information on managing versions, hierarchies, and user metadata objects.