1 Getting Started

For an overview of Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub, see "Overview" in the Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub Implementation Guide.

See also Common Development Tasks.

• About Application Development
  The Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub allows you to load data from different external systems (and from different trials on the same system), merge data and produce reports for interim analysis and clinical trial reporting, all in compliance with industry regulations.
• Defining Objects
  To develop an application in Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub, you define objects. For example, in Oracle LSH a Program is a defined object. In addition to writing program source code in a development environment, you must define a Program and each of its components (Parameters, Source Code, and other components) as objects in the Oracle LSH user interface.
• Developing a Business Application
  An Applications application may be as complex as storing all the data and performing all the analysis required for a study, or as simple as running a single set of reports.
• Developing Standard Definitions and Modular Applications
  You can reduce the amount of time required to develop and validate applications by creating standard object definitions and reusing them as much as possible.
• Ensuring Data Currency
  Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub provides two different ways to ensure that data in an Oracle LSH Table or report reflects the most current source data: Workflows and backchaining execution.