2.3 Relationship to Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications

OFSDF is related to the Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications (OFSAA) in the following ways:

1. Data Model
   • OFSDF Staging Model provides the complete data sourcing foundation for OFSAA applications. All application-specific input data requirements are captured as part of the staging data model. ‘OFSDF Staging Model’ is a combination of all staging models supplied with each OFSAA application.
   • OFSDF Reporting model provides the complete reporting data model common to all the OFSAA Business Intelligence (BI) applications. This includes a single set of conformed dimensions as well as unified fact tables used for cross-functional reporting. For more information, see OFSDF Reporting model. OFSDF reporting model is the superset of all the BI-application specific reporting models.
   • Synchronized Releases: The Staging and Reporting models that are part of an OFSDF release are updated to reflect prior application-specific releases. This means that the latest release of OFSDF reflects all prior application releases across OFSAA from a data model perspective, with respect to the Staging and Reporting models.
2. Infrastructure
   • The Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure (OFSAAI) is the same infrastructure that is used to deploy and manage an OFSDF instance.
   • The same collection of tools (OFSAAI) is used to manage a deployed instance of the Oracle Financial Services Data Foundation (OFSDF).

These are the tools used to manage the data lifecycle in OFSDF:

• Model Upload
• Unified Analytical Metadata (UAM)
• Data Quality Framework
• T2T framework