SaaS and Cloud Computing are inevitable paradigm shifts. These days, enterprises have started moving their businesses to cloud. This makes the data in cloud extremely significant for strategic decision making. Earlier, IT managers used to struggle with the problem of diffusing fragmented data silos in on-premise applications only, and now they have the added headache of cloud.

There are very few out-of-the-box integration options available in advanced DWH/ETL tools and data integration platforms. Although there are a variety of connectors available for on-premise ERP, CRM, and HCM applications with leading ETL tools, only a few support SaaS applications like Salesforce, ServiceNow, Successfactors, Amazon and others.

Enterprises need specific and unique connectors that can leverage their huge investments in existing ETL platforms, skills, and manpower to onboard these SaaS integrations on standard Enterprise Data Bus, running on powerful, highly scalable, and robust Oracle Fusion Middleware Infrastructure.

Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is a comprehensive, market-leading data integration platform used by multiple mid-size and large organizations worldwide. It delivers high-performance, seamless, and code-free data movement and transformations among enterprise applications. It is fully integrated with Oracle Fusion Middleware, Big Data, and Oracle Appliances like Exadata, Exalogic and others.

Bristlecone Solution:

Bristlecone offers easy-to-use, standards-based, extensible cloud adapters for ODI. They reduce development cost and improve productivity for all data integration requirements such as Data Harmonization, Synchronization, Analytics, Data Warehousing, and Business Intelligence. The ODI Cloud Integration Pack provides adapters for leading SaaS applications in different business areas, namely Salesforce.com, ServiceNow, Successfactors, and Amazon Redshift with many more to follow.

The ODI Cloud Integration Pack enables a variety of use cases ranging from data integration, data governance, data harmonization, and analytics in commonly found heterogeneous application landscapes. Some of the typical use cases which are quite trivial for visualization sake are

• Creation of Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDWH) on Amazon Redshift
• Data archival from Cloud Applications in Amazon Redshift or on-premise Oracle Data Warehouse
• Performance and bonus payouts data synchronization backend financial system like Oracle E-Business Suite at the end of appraisal cycle in Successfactors
• Plugging-in data from ServiceNow for incident tracking in Enterprise BI tools like OBIEE

Business Benefits

• No subscription, no restriction on data volume and users–ODI Cloud Integration Pack is licensed and follows complementary pricing, tightly coupled with core ODI Server licenses.
• Huge savings–The pack leverages existing infrastructure, software licenses, and skills.
• Reduced time to rollout–Bristlecone’s implementation teams have rolled out integrations for cloud applications in less than two weeks.
• Lower total cost of ownership–Analyst-level skills are enough to maintain integrations created using Bristlecone’s cloud adapters.

To ensure seamless connectivity across your complete enterprise landscape, contact us @ oracle@bcone.com