Add a Large Volume of New Data to Oracle Fusion Cloud Product Lifecycle Management

In this use case the objective is to build an item data file manually by collecting data from multiple sources and maintaining it in Oracle Fusion Cloud Product Lifecycle Management (PLM).

Description Integration Type Integration Options Notes
Scenario 1: Often, you might decide to add a new product line to your trading business. Maintaining your manually built item data file in Oracle Cloud PLM, which could contain spreadsheets, product brochures, and web sites, usually requires these demands:
  • Manual/partially manual extraction of data from source systems.
  • Frequent inflow of data.
  • Data transformation.
  • Mass update of data existing in Oracle Product Hub.
Inbound
  • Smart Spreadsheet
  • File-based data import (FBDI) (recommended only for non Oracle Product Hub customers).
Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) and Item web services aren't recommended for this use case.
Scenario 2: Integrating design systems like CAD for creating and updating the item and its structure using change orders. This scenario usually demands:
  • Create/ Update the item structure, attributes, and item attachments from Design Systems (CAD)
    • Frequent Inflow of data.
    • Data transformation.
  • Mass update of data existing in Oracle Cloud PLM.
Inbound
  • Import
  • Oracle Web Services for Item, Item Structure, and Change services.
You can use OIC to create an integration by configuring the events based on the existing web services from external system.