An overview of Oracle Enterprise Repository

Oracle Enterprise Repository (OER) is Oracle's flagship product for supporting the design-time Governance aspects of the Oracle SOA Governance solution. The runtime components of the solution integrate with OER to provide data for metrics such as service usability and service re-use, providing important information to assist with the design-time decisions.

OER delivers critical information to architects, SOA designers, and developers at design time to empower them to make more informed decisions when designing services. For example, determining if there are opportunities for service re-use rather than create new ones when updating a service catalogue, or determining if there is a risk of a service being overused.

The repository also provides vital information to business analysis and business architects about the available capabilities. This can be extremely useful when, for example, elaborating a process model that can benefit from existing capabilities...