Oracle Product Information Management Data Hub (PIM Data Hub)

Oracle Product Information Management Data Hub (PIM Data Hub) is the solution of enterprise data management.

PIM Data Hub which belongs to a product line of Oracle Fusion Middleware allows to solve a problem of fragmentation of data which the companies using diverse and separate applications often face. Especially the problem is relevant for the companies which are in a stage of merge or absorption and also expanding the business worldwide and using a large number of diverse information from the different systems and a DB.

Oracle PIM Data Hub can be used in any industry, irrespective of the existing configuration of the systems of the enterprise.

Sharing of Oracle PIM Data Hub, Oracle PIM Data Librarian and Oracle Application Server 10g for consolidation, managements and synchronization of all information on a product with other initial systems and trading partners is possible. Oracle PIM Data Hub offers on an entity attributes, change management of job flows and also the security, infinite for expansion, which is based on roles (differentiation of the rights) of users. The data which are stored on Oracle PIM Data Hub can be as structured, and unstructured.

Oracle Product Information Management Data Hub is the solution of the corporate level for data management on products. Here "products" are understood as the wide list of the products and/or services, the commodity and warehouse nomenclature made (which are purchased, implemented) the company (for example, the different equipment, technical nodes and parts, warehouse stocks, purchasing directories for internal and external users (suppliers, customers, other partners), etc.).

Actually everywhere, where there is a need for creation of the uniform directory of these or those products or services, reference books, qualifiers, NSI automated control systems with need of double-sided synchronization of data on products for systems sources and direct systems, everywhere, where the task of collecting of separate data is set, creations of universal "master directory" of these or those data on any products – the product Oracle Product Information Management Data Hub can be applied.

The product can be unrolled as installation, independent, separate of the Oracle E-Business Suite complex, and to be integrated with any systems of the Customer, is well unrolled as a component of Oracle E-Business Suite.

The application allows to centralize information from the heterogeneous systems, to create uniform information representation on products for the subsequent use of the company by all functional divisions. Problems of elimination of the fragmentation of data arising owing to use of poorly integrated, legacy and other applications are effectively solved.

The solution will help the company to be painless the period of merges and absorption (for example, inclusion in the structure of holding of the new plant, etc.) and also to effectively expand business at an exit to international markets. The module will help to bring management of the normative reference information (NRI) to qualitatively new, more perfect level. For support of international standards, the structure of Oracle PIM Data Hub includes components for synchronization with services of GDSN and UCCnet networks (the international global networks of exchange of the standardized data with trading partners).

Scheme of interaction of the solution

Oracle Product Information Management Data Hub helps the companies to manage business processes:

• Management of directories of the bought and sold products:

The companies can safely store all information on finished goods (product characteristics, marketing information: brochures, booklets, drawings, diagrams) to organize products in the user directories for fast extraction by means of powerful mechanisms of parametrical search and in a key word, to provide the limited target access to certain information on products by means of detailed security settings.

• Centralization of internal directories on products and creation of information standards on products:

The companies can consolidate information on all products and their components in "Oracle Data center for Products" for obtaining the master directory (engl. "master catalog" is the directory of especially high accuracy), i.e. the directory containing reference, most exact and fair information on products for all systems of the company (for example, several different systems of manufacturing enterprise can use the same reference book of NSI). Such directory will allow to manage specifications of products, documentation, configurations of products in a single central system. The companies can manage determination of new products, control quality of data on products by means of the configured checks, standardization, procedures of elimination of duplicates, setup of regulations of change management and the flows of works (workflow) connected with these processes that leads to acceleration and streamlining of request processing on change of information. Considerations and statements are configured within processes of flows of works of workflow.

• Management of material specifications (structures of BOM):

The companies can consolidate structures of material specifications (engl. "BOM" - Bill Of Materials) from different engineering, trading, production systems of the plants, service companies that provides uniform representation of structure for each product or a warehouse position. "Oracle Data center for Products" is the Oracle Fusion Middleware component. Oracle Fusion Middleware is group of the integrated, standardized products which are used by many customer companies around the world now. These technologies allow the companies to be more mobile in the market, to accept more the justified management decisions and it is easier to integrate information and processes on all the IT systems. "Oracle Data center for Products" involves the data model of Oracle used by the Oracle E-Business Suite complex as the base and expands it for ensuring support of heterogeneous environments and applications of other suppliers.

Key advantages

Consolidation of all information on products:

• Management of the directory and attributes
• Management of interrelations of positions
• Management of documents
• Configuration management

Import of data and synchronization of a set of systems (by means of "Oracle PIM Librarian of Data"):

• Workplace of import of data
• The optimized mass import
• Import from tables of Excel
• The rich API set and business events for integration

Quality management of data:

• Reconciliation and elimination of duplicates
• Rules of data validation (validation)
• Flows of works of workflow for determination of new positions
• Support of change management processes

Secure secure access and search in information repository:

• Setup of role security policies
• Keyword-based search and parametrical search
• Viewing directory
• Comprehensive representation of a product (360 degree view of product)

Syndication and Publication of information on products:

• Support of XML-templates in several languages for a possibility of the publication of information in different formats.