Couple of weeks ago I announced our new white paperthat outlines the five key data integration requirements and how Oracle’s data integration product family addresses these requirements. After discussing the “Pervasive Access to Any Data” requirement in last week’s blog, this week I’d like to focus on pervasive access to “any source, any target”.
In today’s complex and diverse IT environment, data integration solutions are expected to support heterogeneous systems. The real question is how pervasive is your data integration solution for your enterprise. Can it support all types of data sources in your IT infrastructure? If you want to consolidate legacy systems into a new platform, will your data integration solution support both the legacy system as the source and the new system as a target, and deliver a robust, reliable solution at the same time?
Oracle prides itself on giving its customers the best-of-breed and open solutions that can work with other vendors' technologies. Hence, Oracle Data Integration product family provides the level of heterogeneity that organizations require in today’s diverse IT environments. Both Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle GoldenGate support a long list of target and source systems from different vendors and go beyond databases for data integration. Especially Oracle GoldenGate is a clear leader in real-time heterogeneous data replication with its support for non-Oracle databases such as IBM DB2 for iSeries and zSeries, HP NonStop, Teradata, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, PostgreSQL, MySQL and more. GoldenGate can also capture, map and transform data from databases using multibyte/Unicode character sets. The product can capture from and deliver to JMS messaging systems, in addition to delivering changed data as flat files.
Oracle Data Integrator has a highly flexible knowledge module architecture that allows heterogeneous support for non-Oracle data sources and data warehouse appliances. While Oracle Data Integrator is certified with Oracle technologies and applications, it is optimized for mixed targets, sources and applications. Some of the available knowledge modules include Hadoop Hive Transformation, IBM DB2, Sybase, SAP ABAP ERP, SAP ABAP BW, Informix, Netezza, among others.
If you would like to understand Oracle Data Integration products’ architecture for extensive heterogeneity, I invite you to watch our webcast on this topicEnterprise Data Integration for Heterogeneous Environmentsalong with reading our platform specific white papers.