Informatica PowerExchange for Oracle E-Business Suite
Bi-directional Access to Enterprise Data
Informatica PowerExchange® for Oracle E-Business Suite is part of Informatica’s extensive PowerExchange family
of universal data access and delivery products. By interfacing seamlessly with Informatica PowerCenter®,
PowerExchange for Oracle E-Business Suite enables any organization to deliver data managed by Oracle EBusiness Suite to multiple strategic IT initiatives—from data marts to operational data stores, including application
integration, consolidation, migration, and synchronization—or move data into Oracle E-Business Suite applications
from other data sources as needed.
BENEFITS
PowerExchange—for Application and Data Integration
 Bi-directional Access to
Oracle E-Business Suite
Salient features
 User-Friendly Designer Wizard
for Source and target
definitions
Whether migrating to Oracle E-Business Suite, consolidating E-Business Suite
instances, or permanently integrating with legacy or best-of-breed solutions from other
vendors, many organizations find that their Oracle environment is not the sole system
 Support for Tables, Views and
Flex Fields as source.
of record—but developing hand-coded integration solutions has proved to be a
 Support for Open Interfaces as
Targets
Business Suite, the sheer complexity of the application schema and Oracle-mandated
 Internationalization Support
challenge. Add the difficulty of accessing and integrating data managed by other
 Lessens demand for Oracle EBusiness Suite technical skills
enterprise applications, or hosted on mainframes—requiring more hard-to-find technical
 Eliminates costly manual
coding
Business Suite application is enhanced and the surrounding IT environment evolves,
 Improves developer
productivity with a single
point of control
daunting task. Although custom transformation logic can be written to interface with EAPIs—and the scarcity of the domain expertise needed to use them—is only part of the
talent—and the recurring cost of maintaining this logic as the underlying Oracle Eand the drawbacks of this approach become clear.
PowerExchange for Oracle E-Business Suite overcomes these obstacles. It reduces
the need for sophisticated E-Business Suite technical expertise by allowing
PowerCenter to access Oracle E-Business Suite as source and target—while working
with other members of the PowerExchange family to open Oracle E-Business Suite to
the rest of the enterprise. The initial development of integration interfaces is faster, and
as changes become necessary they can be implemented more rapidly thanks to the
extensive sharing of metadata among Oracle E-Business Suite, PowerCenter, and all
PowerExchange family members—the same metadata that can help resolve questions
of data lineage that often arise in audit and compliance exercises.
PowerExchange for Oracle E-Business Suite —the perfect complement to any
organization that has chosen Oracle E-Business Suite.
Key Features
Supported Oracle E-Business versions
Oracle E-Business Suite 11 i (All versions from 11.5.6)
Oracle E-Business Suite 12 i
Supported Oracle E-Business Suite Interfaces
Tables, views, columns, flexfields: data can be sourced from any of these Oracle E-Business Suite objects.
Open interfaces: any E-Business Suite open interface can be used as a target, including user-specified custom interfaces.
Concurrent Manager integration: PowerExchange automatically informs the E-Business Suite Concurrent manager whenever
it updates an interface table, eliminating the need for customer-coded scripts, improving reliability and timeliness.
Seamless Access to Application-level Objects
Developers can rapidly leverage basic knowledge of the Oracle E-Business Suite application to drill down to specific data objects
as needed. Informatica PowerExchange for Oracle E-Business Suite provides the mapping between these layers, speeding
development and reducing error—even when familiarity with Oracle E-Business Suite is limited.
Automated Capture of Oracle E-Business Suite Metadata
Informatica PowerExchange for Oracle E-Business Suite automatically delivers all necessary Oracle E-Business Suite metadata
to the Informatica repository, seamlessly integrating it with metadata from other PowerExchange data sources and targets and
supporting the entire data integration life cycle. As changes occur—whether in Oracle E-Business Suite or in the sources and
targets surrounding it—this metadata helps keep maintenance costs down by enabling fast, error-free impact assessment
unavailable when hand-coded integration techniques are used.
About Informatica PowerExchange
Informatica PowerExchange® is Informatica’s family of universal data access and delivery products. By interfacing seamlessly with Informatica
PowerCenter®, PowerExchange enables any organization to adopt rapid drag-and-drop development methods for all its data integration needs.
No matter what the source or target may be, PowerExchange accesses the metadata describing it, eliminating error-prone hand-coded data
extraction programs and supporting enterprise-wide initiatives for data quality, internal audit, and regulatory compliance.
Informatica PowerExchange can provide high-performance, bidirectional access to popular ERP and CRM systems, relational and nonrelational databases, mainframe and midrange systems, message queuing systems, and others—all with a common interface, dramatically
reducing time-to-value. By adopting PowerExchange’s CDC Option, selected database updates become available in near real time to any
supported PowerExchange target. PowerExchange truly is the foundation of any organization’s data integration strategy. For more information,
please visit www.informatica.com/products/PowerExchange.
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