Oracle Data Integrator provides a fully unified solution for building, deploying, and managing complex data warehouses or as part of data-centric architectures in an SOA or business intelligence environment. This chapter provides an introduction to Oracle Data Integrator and its various components.
This chapter includes the following sections:
Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) features an active integration platform that includes all styles of data integration: data-based, event-based and service-based. ODI unifies silos of integration by transforming large volumes of data efficiently, processing events in real time through its advanced Changed Data Capture (CDC) framework, and providing data services to the Oracle SOA Suite. It also provides robust data integrity control features, assuring the consistency and correctness of data. With powerful core differentiators - heterogeneous E-LT, Declarative Design and Knowledge Modules - Oracle Data Integrator meets the performance, flexibility, productivity, modularity and hot-pluggability requirements of an integration platform.
The Oracle Data Integrator platform integrates in the broader Fusion Middleware platform and becomes a key component of this stack. Oracle Data Integrator provides its run-time components as Java EE applications, enhanced to fully leverage the WebLogic Application Server. Oracle Data Integrator components include exclusive features for Enterprise-Scale Deployments, high availability, scalability, and hardened security. The ODI architecture relies on the following components that collaborate together:
Repositories
ODI Studio and User Interfaces
Design-time Projects
Run-time Agent
ODI Console
Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control
Management Pack for Oracle Data Integrator
For more information regarding ODI components see "Understanding the Oracle Data Integrator Component Architecture" in Understanding Oracle Data Integrator.
The following provides a summary of the steps you need to take to configure and manage a basic Oracle Data Integrator environment after you have installed the software:
Table 1-1 Roadmap for Configuring and Managing Oracle Data Integrator