Preface

The Oracle Communications Data Model Implementation and Operations Guide describes best practices for implementing a data warehouse based on the Oracle Communications Data Model.

This preface contains the following topics:

Audience
Documentation Accessibility
Related Oracle Resources
Conventions

Audience

This document is intended for business analysts, data modelers, data warehouse administrators, IT staff, and ETL developers who implement an Oracle Communications Data Model warehouse.

Documentation Accessibility

For information about Oracle's commitment to accessibility, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program website at http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=docacc.

Access to Oracle Support

Oracle customers have access to electronic support through My Oracle Support. For information, visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=info or visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=trs if you are hearing impaired.

Related Oracle Resources

Oracle provides many resources for you when implementing the Oracle Communications Data Model.

Oracle Communications Data Model Documentation Set

For more information on Oracle Communications Data Model, see the following documents in the Oracle Communications Data Model Release 11g documentation set:

Oracle Technology Network

Visit the Oracle Technology Network (OTN to access to demos, whitepapers, Oracle By Example (OBE) tutorials, updated Oracle documentation, and other collateral.

Registering on OTN

You must register online before using OTN, Registration is free and can be done at

www.oracle.com/technetwork/index.html

Oracle Documentation on OTN

The Oracle Documentation site on OTN provides access to Oracle documentation. After you have a user name and password for OTN, you can go directly to the documentation section of the OTN Web site at

www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/documentation/index.html

Oracle Learning Library on OTN

The Oracle Learning Library provides free online training content (OBEs, Demos and Tutorials). After you have a user name and password for OTN, you can go directly to the Oracle Learning Library Web site at

www.oracle.com/technetwork/tutorials/index.html

Then you can search for the tutorial or demo (within "All") by name.

For example, search within "All" for "OCDMTutorial" to go to the tutorial for Oracle Communications Data Model.

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

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