Presentation: "Oracle Data Hubs: A New and Exciting Concept"
Speaker(s): Bill Dunham, Allstream

Oracle Data Hub products allow the synchronization of data from multiple sources into a central location. This data can be from any source, whether it be an application; legacy or packaged or perhaps a custom application. Data Hubs are somewhat like a data warehouse although the data feeds are bidirectional versus unidirectional in data warehouses.

Four hubs are offered by Oracle:

a. Product Data Hub – Centralize product information from disparate systems to create a single global catalog as a master for all other systems,m departments, customer and suppliers.

b. Financial Consolidation Hub – Integrate and automate currency translation, inter-company eliminations, acquisitions, disposals and more.

c. Financial Services Accounting Data Hub

d. Citizen Data Hub – Allows government agencies to create and manage a comprehensive citizen data repository.