Data Integration track at OpenWorld 2014 contained important product announcements, many content-rich presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on-labs around big data analytics, data governance, and cloud.
On Monday, Jeff Pollock, VP of Product Management for Oracle Data Integration presented the session "Unlocking Big Data Silos in the Cloud", where he gave an overview of Oracle’s data integration offering and explained several best practices and architectural approaches to implement a full or partial cloud solutions. He presented real life example such as the UK Conservatory using Oracle Data Integration in the cloud. Following Jeff's session came product feature updates for Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle GoldenGate. Our PM team demonstrated that in addition to integrating the products tightly and expanding products’ heterogeneous capabilities, there are several key features supporting cloud environments and big data analytics solutions. Customer testimonials from various well known brands like DIRECTV, Canon and LinkedIn further demonstrated Oracle’s success in the data integration market.
On Tuesday, product updates continued with Oracle Enterprise Data
Quality. Audience learned how Oracle is
now extending its capabilities considerably into the metadata management space
to help govern and bring transparency to data within the organization. Which
brings us to the new product announcement I mentioned earlier:Oracle Enterprise
Metadata Management, is a new addition to the Oracle Data Integration product family. We launched it at the beginning of this week but many lucky OpenWorld attendees were able to learn about it in the data integration sessions and demo grounds. This new product helps organization looking to seriously tackle data governance, productivity improvement and lifecycle management challenges. To learn more about it, I invite you to attend our upcoming webcast: Big Data Governance and Metadata Management on Thursday, October 30th at 10am PT.
On Wednesday "Tapping into the Big Data Reservoir with all Data" session with Jeff Pollock was a big hit for big data market followers. Jeff presented how customers can implement a big data reservoir using Oracle GoldenGate for real-time transactional data feed into the reservoir and Oracle Data Integrator for data transformations within the reservoir.
We kicked off the last day of OpenWorld with the cloud topic. In the ‘Oracle Data Integration: A Crucial Ingredient for Cloud Integration’ session Julien Testut from Data Integration product management team presented with Sumit Sarkar from Progress DataDirect. Julien provided an overview of the various data integration solutions for cloud deployments, including integration between databases and applications hosted on cloud, as well as loading cloud BI infrastructures. Sumit followed Julien with a live demo using Oracle Data Integrator and the Progress DataDirect JDBC drivers for loading and transforming data on Amazon Redshift, and extracting data from Salesforce.com. All of us in the audience were amazed that the demo worked seamlessly using only the OpenWorld wi-fi network.
Achieving Zero Downtime During Oracle Applications Upgrades and System Migrations was in the Fusion Middleware AppAdvantage track and featured Oracle GoldenGate’s zero downtime upgrades and migration solution with customer Symantec and partner Pythian. In this session, Doug Reid from the PM team presented GoldenGate's 3 different deployment models for zero downtime application upgrades. In his slides, Doug highlighted GoldenGate’s certified solution for Siebel CRM, and mentioned the support for zero downtime application upgrade for JD Edwards and Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) as well. Following Doug, Symantec’s Rohit Muttepawar, came to stage and talked about their database migration project for their critical licensing database. And Pythian’s Gleb Otochkin and Luke Davies presented how using Oracle GoldenGate in a 6-node active-active replication environment helped Western Union in achieving application releases with zero downtime, database patches and upgrades with zero downtime, and a real-time reporting database with no impact to online users.
The other key GoldenGate session on Thursday was Managing and Monitoring Oracle GoldenGate. Joe deBuzna in the GoldenGate product management team provided an overview of the new monitoring and management capabilities included in the Oracle GoldenGate Plug-in for Enterprise Manager, and Oracle GoldenGate Monitor. The Data Integration track at OpenWorld closed with " Insight into Action: Business Intelligence Applications and Oracle Data Integrator". Jayant Mahto from ODI Development team, and Gurcan Orhan from Wipro Technologies focused on the Oracle BI Applications latest release that embeds Oracle Data Integrator for data loading and transformations, and provides the option to use Oracle GoldenGate for real-time data feeds into the reporting environment.
In case you missed it, I'd like to remind you on the press announcement that went out on September 29th and gives a summary of the key developments in the Fusion Middleware product
family and Oracle's data integration offering. And again, you can find the Oracle Enterprise Metadata Management press release here.