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collaborative repositories. Sealing wraps documents and emails within a layer of strong encryption and digital signatures, together with indelible links back to
network-hosted servers operated by the organization to which the information belongs that store the decryption keys and associated access rights.
Sealed documents and emails can be distributed by any existing means, including email, the Web, and file sharing.
For more information about Oracle IRM refer to the Oracle Information Rights Management Server Administrators Guide for Microsoft Windows 32-Bit.
3.16.5 Oracle Imaging and Process Management IPM
Oracle Imaging and Process Management Oracle IPM provides organizations with a scalable solution upon which to develop process-oriented imaging applications and
image-enablement solutions for enterprise applications. Oracle IPM enables image capture via Oracle Document Capture and Oracle Distributed Document Capture,
annotation and markup of images, BPEL support for routing and approval automation, and support for high-volume applications for billions of items. With
Oracle IPM, organizations can quickly integrate their content and processes directly with Oracle enterprise applications, such as Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft
Enterprise, and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. Users benefit by having a single source for all transaction-based content, eliminating the need for double entry.
For more information about Oracle IPM refer to the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide for Oracle Imaging and Process Management.
3.17 Oracle Data Integrator
Oracle Data Integrator provides a fully unified solution for building, deploying, and managing complex data warehouses or as part of data-centric architectures in a SOA
or business intelligence environment. In addition, it combines all the elements of data integration—data movement, data synchronization, data quality, data management,
and data services—to ensure that information is timely, accurate, and consistent across complex systems.
Oracle Data Integrator ODI features an active integration platform that includes all styles of data integration: data-based, event-based and service-based. ODI unifies silos
of integration by transforming large volumes of data efficiently, processing events in real time through its advanced Changed Data Capture CDC capability, and
providing data services to the Oracle SOA Suite. It also provides robust data integrity control features, assuring the consistency and correctness of data. With powerful core
differentiators - heterogeneous E-LT, Declarative Design and Knowledge Modules - Oracle Data Integrator meets the performance, flexibility, productivity, modularity
and hot-pluggability requirements of an integration platform.
For more information about Oracle Data Integrator refer to the following:
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Oracle Fusion Middleware Developers Guide for Oracle Data Integrator
3.17.1 Oracle Data Quality Products
Oracle Data Profiling and Oracle Data Quality for Data Integrator also referred to as Oracle Data Quality Products extend the inline Data Quality features of Oracle Data
Integrator to provide more advanced data governance capabilities.
A complete Data Quality system includes data profiling, integrity and quality:
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Profiling makes possible data investigation and quality assessment. It allows business users to get a clear picture of their data quality challenges, to monitor and
track the quality of their data over time. Profiling is handled by Oracle Data Profiling. It allows business users to assess the quality of their data through
metrics, to discover or infer rules based on this data, and finally to monitor over time the evolution of the data quality.
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Integrity Control Integrity control is essential in ensuring the overall consistency of the data in your
information systems applications. Application data is not always valid for the constraints and declarative rules imposed by the information system. You may, for
instance, find orders with no customer, or order lines with no product, and so forth. Oracle Data Integrator provides built-in working environment to detect
these constraint violation and store them for recycling or reporting purposes. Static and Flow checks in Oracle Data Integrator are integrity checks.
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Quality Quality includes integrity and extends to more complex quality processing. A
rule-based engine apply data quality standards as part of an integration process to cleanse, standardize, enrich, match and de-duplicate any type of data, including
names and addresses. Oracle Data Quality for Data Integrator places data quality as well as name and address cleansing at the heart of the enterprise integration
strategy.
For more information about Oracle Data Quality products refer to following:
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This chapter describes Oracle Fusion Middleware administration. It includes the following sections:
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Section 4.1, Enterprise Deployment
