Oracle Product Hub

Oracle Product Information Management Data Hub is an enterprise data management solution that enables customers to centralize all product information from heterogeneous systems, creating a single view of product information that can be leveraged across all functional departments.

Oracle Product Information Management Data Hub helps customers eliminate product data fragmentation, a problem that often results when companies rely on nonintegrated legacy and best-of-breed applications, participate in a merger or acquisition, or extend their business globally.

The Oracle Product Hub delivers:

• An import workbench for improved data quality
• External transaction views to provide greater business insight
• Mass maintenance capabilities to manage updates to multiple products
• Enhanced product sales configurations for manufacturing and service industries
• Advanced change control capabilities
• Embedded user interfaces for unstructured content management
• Predefined operational attributes with unlimited extensibility

• Consolidate all product information
• Import data and synchronize multiple systems (with Oracle Product Information Management Data Librarian)
• Manage data quality (with Oracle Product Information Management Data Librarian)
• Securely access and search information repository (with Oracle Product Information Management Data Librarian)
• Syndicate and publish product information (with Oracle Product Information Management Data Librarian)

Consolidate

• Capture all product attributes and relationships in a rich and extensible data model
• Create a universal ID for each product and build a cross reference to each connected system
• Includes a data import workbench to manage source system mappings and data loads
• Spreadsheet import for easy upload and maintenance
• Optimized bulk import through staging tables
• Integrate using prebuilt, standards-compliant business services and adapters
• Create a blended product record from multiple sources using configurable rules
• Rich set of APIs and business events for

Cleanse

• Standardize key product data attributes via Silver Creek Systems DataLens
• Powerful matching and de-duplication: create a single "blended" records
• Includes step-by-step new item definition and approval workflow
• Data validation and description-generation rules
• Auto-generate item numbers and descriptions

Govern

• Product data governance and change control
• Item attribute and relationship management and product catalog management
• Rapidly apply changes to groups of items meeting specific criteria
• Full history and audit trails for rock solid security and proof of compliance
• Document and configurations management
• Create customizable workflow-driven product change process

Share

• Provide the golden product record and selected attributes to all applications and analytical systems
• Product data is available as Web services to fully support service-oriented architectures (SOAs)
• Supports 1 sync to maintain consistent data in real time with all suppliers
• Manage syndication from a single dashboard and mass syndication process
• Fast and flexible product searches and a comprehensive integration repository
• Multi-lingual template-based XML publishing to publish information to multiple formats

• Communications, media and entertainment: accelerate new product introduction, address convergence of services
• Retail: strategic product sourcing and GDSN, assortment and space planning
• High technology and manufacturing: improve order accuracy and reduce inventory, hierarchy management capabilities for B2B, product introduction, compliance and sourcing