Oracle Announce Product Data Hub

Following on from Customer Data Hub, Oracle have just announced that Product Data Hub will be available in 2005. According to James Niccolai for IDG News Service, "Meanwhile, Oracle also plans to release a rival offering, called Product Data Hub, later this year or early in 2005. The Product Data Hub will be based on the same idea as its Customer Data Hub, which was released in January. Customer Data Hub provides businesses with a single view of all the information about its customers, by consolidating customer data from different sources, including non-Oracle applications. Product Data Hub will be based on the same idea, acting as a repository for information about pricing, product inventory numbers and which suppliers should have access to which products, said Ashinsh Mohindroo, product director for integration server technology at Oracle. It will be introduced late this year or early next year."