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SmartDB Workbench 4.1:
The Easiest and Fastest Way to
Integrate Enterprise Applications
Simplifying Enterprise Application Integration
Chuck Fazio, SmartDB Corporation, TEL:(770) 753-6266, [email protected]
SmartDB Corporation
Agenda
 Value Proposition
 Solution Overview
 Oracle Relationship
 SmartDB Products/Services
 Questions & Answers
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Chuck Fazio, SmartDB Corporation, TEL:(770) 753-6266, [email protected]
SmartDB Value Proposition
 SmartDB will REDUCE the TIME and COST by 65% for
the data conversions/interfacing tasks of project.
 Reduces the RISK of project implementation / integration
 (SmartDB provides TEST environment)
 Highly leverageable / reusable across multiple
integration projects
 Provide lasting value to easily maintain interfaces
between applications
Manufacturing
Sales
Data Warehouse
Marketing
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Finance
Chuck Fazio, SmartDB Corporation, TEL:(770) 753-6266, [email protected]
Data Migration Issues
 It’s painful to do
 Lack of resources - Time, $$$ and people
 Lack of standard methodologies
 Lack of documentation
 Limited reusability of conversion programs
 High cost and complex maintenance,
expertise leaves with developers
 Always more interfaces, many to custom applications
Chuck Fazio, SmartDB Corporation, TEL:(770) 753-6266, [email protected]
SmartDB Corporation
Solutions, Customers, Partners
 Private start-up company, venture-backed, Palo Alto, CA
 First product shipped in 1994
 Over 225 customers in enterprise application integration:
The Who’s Who of the Fortune 1000
 Strategic Partners with Oracle, Ernst & Young, Deloitte &
Touche, CSC, EDS, Grant Thornton and others
 Expertise in data conversion and application interfacing
particularly for manufacturing, financial and human resource
applications
SmartDB Provides Market Leading Integration Solutions TODAY
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Oracle Relationship
 Oracle “Partner of the Year - Complementary Software
Provider” for 1995 & 1996
 Oracle Cooperative Applications Initiative - CAI
 certified to load application tables
 SmartDB bundled into Oracle’s Fast Forward Program
 ONLY approved tool for data conversion
 Migration Technology Initiative
 Oracle Internal Education sponsors SmartDB classes as
training credit for consultants
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SmartDB Corporation
Partial Customer List
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Abbott Labs
Air Liquide
Alcoa
AMOCO
Burlington Resources
Canon
Cellular One
Computer Sciences Corp.
Cummins Engine
Dun & Bradstreet
Eaton Corp
Electronic Arts
General Electric
General Instrument
Honeywell
ITT/Sheraton
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Johnson Controls
Kerr-McGee
KLA-Tencor
Leeson Electric
Lucky Goldstar
McDonnell Douglas
Motorola
New York Stock Exchange
Northern Telecom
Oracle
Olsten Corporation
Pacific Scientific
Pratt & Whitney
Quantum
Ralston Purina
Rosemount
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Seagate
Siemens
Silicon Graphics
Simon & Schuster
Singapore Telecom
Sony
Southwest Gas
SUN Microsystems
Toshiba
Transamerica
U.S. Marines
U.S. Steel
Unocal
Volkswagen
Wells Fargo Bank
Yale University
Chuck Fazio, SmartDB Corporation, TEL:(770) 753-6266, [email protected]
What do you use SmartDB for?
Leveraging SmartDB Templates
Data Conversion
Legacy
Databases
IBM,
VSAM,
IMS,
flatfiles,
DB2,
Client/Server
Applications
Multiple Data Interfaces
Application
Databases
Application
Database
Periodic
Data Warehousing
Data Warehouse
Finance DB
Operational
Databases
Mktng DB
Sales DB
Periodic
Mfg DB
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Chuck Fazio, SmartDB Corporation, TEL:(770) 753-6266, [email protected]
Periodic Data Integration
 Master Data Interfacing: Make sure that reference information is
consistent across the enterprise
employees, part numbers, chart of accounts, customers
Engineering
Purchasing
Manufacturing
 Periodic Transaction Interfacing: Assure that the results of
transactions in one application are reflected in other applications
purchase requisitions, manufacturing costs, journal entries
Purchasing
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Finance
Chuck Fazio, SmartDB Corporation, TEL:(770) 753-6266, [email protected]
What is the SmartDB Workbench?
“The SmartDB Workbench is a visual design and implementation product set for
the conversion of data from legacy systems to relational application databases,
and the interfacing of data between application databases.”
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Integrated toolset
Intuitive GUI
Powerful data transformation engine
TEST environment
Repeatable data migration
Automatic documentation
Single point of maintenance
Chuck Fazio, SmartDB Corporation, TEL:(770) 753-6266, [email protected]
SmartDB Workbench
Graphical Interactive Development Environment
Modeler
Transform
Loader
Query
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Chuck Fazio, SmartDB Corporation, TEL:(770) 753-6266, [email protected]
SmartDB Workbench
Graphical Interactive Development Environment
Modeler
• Browse Database Schema
• Modify Schema
• Design New Schema
• Define and Modify Database Objects
• Tables
• Columns
• Datatypes
• Defaults
• Keys
• Constraints
• Indexes
• Sequences
• Triggers
• Stored Procedures
• Security
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SmartDB Workbench
Graphical Interactive Development Environment
Transform
• Browse Source Data
• Define Transform Logic
• Define Validation logic
• Powerful Rule Functions
• Database Lookup Functions
• Interactive Visual Testing
• Self-documenting
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SmartDB Workbench
Graphical Interactive Development Environment
Loader
• Point and Click Mapping
• Map to Multiple Tables
• Table Insert or Update
• Generate Run-time Scripts
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SmartDB Workbench
Graphical Interactive Development Environment
Query
• Verify Success of Load
• Browse Source and Target Databases
• Query by Table
• Multitable Query
• Insert, Update, Delete Tables
• Save/Retrieve Query Statements
• Create Database Views
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The SmartDB way
File Browser:
Freely examine
legacy file formats
Data Fields:
Define data fields
in legacy files
Logical Fields:
Derive new data
from old
SQL*Loader:
Complete support
for all functions
Data Rules:
Powerful data
transformations
Test Values:
See exactly what
will be loaded
Chuck Fazio, SmartDB Corporation, TEL:(770) 753-6266, [email protected]
SmartDB Workbench Benefits
 Savings of 65% in the coding and testing of data
conversions/interfacing program development
 Dramatic increase in productivity
 Less RISK,
 more predictable DATA & TIME to implementation
 Easy to modify, maintain
 High quality of DATA, less chance for errors
 Structured methodology,
 including automatic documentation
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Chuck Fazio, SmartDB Corporation, TEL:(770) 753-6266, [email protected]
Oracle “Pre-Built” Templates
 AP Invoices
 AR Invoices
 Customer
 BOM
 Employees
 Fixed Assets
 GL Journals
 Items
 Material Transactions
 Price Lists
 Purchase Orders
 Purchase Requisitions
 Projects & Tasks
 Routings
 Sales Orders
 Vendors
Chuck Fazio, SmartDB Corporation, TEL:(770) 753-6266, [email protected]
SmartDB Template Benefits
 Provides all transformation rules, validations and mapping logic
 Supports Oracle open interfaces or direct loading
 Customizeable and reusable
 Fully documented
 Faster and more complete conversion the first time
 Reduces learning curve and need for Oracle Applications expertise
 Provides a higher quality of converted data
 Allows rapid prototyping of test instances
 Reduces overall conversion cost
Chuck Fazio, SmartDB Corporation, TEL:(770) 753-6266, [email protected]
Data Integration Process
Monitoring and Control
Source
Database
Extract
Transport
Transform,
Validate & Map
Load
Template
Task Automation
SmartDB Workbench
Key Technologies:
 “Transformation Engine” that provides modular and optimized processes
 Comprehensive data integrity and complex task execution
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Target
Database
Who uses SmartDB Workbench?
Project team leaders/members
Consultant specialists
Business analysts
Application developers
Database administrators
SmartDB provides a level of abstraction in designing interfaces that
allows users to focus on business objectives, not programming
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Total SmartDB Solution
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Tool Set - easy to use, easy to learn
No Coding Required
Templates - proven and powerful
On- site training and support
Experience built on over 150 Oracle
Application implementations
Chuck Fazio, SmartDB Corporation, TEL:(770) 753-6266, [email protected]