Third Party Data Integration Overview

Use Oracle Trading Community Architecture (TCA) Third Party Data Integration to purchase third party data from D&B to enrich the data in the TCA Registry. D&B information is integrated with the party records to maintain accurate information that you can use to evaluate credit risks.

The D&B information coexists with user-entered data in the Registry. In Oracle applications, users can view and use information from different data sources, such as user entered and D&B. Your administrator can control how the D&B and user-entered data are used and displayed in Oracle applications, as well as set up Third Party Data Integration.

Attention: The embedded Dun and Bradstreet toolkit is not compatible in an IBM environment.

Note: Even though all purchased D&B data are stored in TCA tables, some information might not appear in user interfaces, based on the Single Source of Truth (SST) setup.

See: Setting Up Third Party Data Integration and Single Source of Truth Overview.

In the TCA Registry, a party exists separately from any business relationship that it enters into with other parties. A customer account for a party represents a business relationship that parties can enter into. The account has information about the terms and conditions of doing business with the party. The D&B information that you purchase is stored in TCA for parties, not for customer accounts. See: Customers Overview.

Purchasing D&B Data

D&B provides profile, demographic, credit risk, and financial information about parties to help you make business decisions about the parties that you transact with.

To acquire third party information from D&B, you can use either of these methods:

You can also load legacy data that D&B has rationalized into the TCA Registry .

Viewing Information from Data Sources

For specific parties, view and compare the data from different data sources, such as user entered and D&B. See: Viewing Information from Data Sources.

You can also run two reports for more information about the D&B data in the TCA Registry:

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