Substition of business objects in OTL

Hello, everyone.
There's clearly stated in "Conﬁguring The Oracle Time and Labor Timecard User Interface" document:
In short, for any page rendered with the Oracle Time and Labor (OTL) timecard conﬁguration utility, no UI components can be
Personalized using the standard Oracle Applications Framework (OAF) functionality. All changes to the page must be made via the
Oracle Time and Labor page layout deﬁnition.
I wonder if the BC4J substitutions may be used in OTL. Does anybody have any experience with that thing?
--wheleph

Hi
I know that "MillerCoors" was using SAP MDM & BO DQ
The comparison between SAP MDM & BO DQ capabilities are listed below. Putting it straight.
1) Both have data quality capabilities. Validations for SAP MDM & Transforms for BO DQ. But the capabilities of BO DQ are much stronger than SAP MDM
2) Both have de-duplication functionalities. While SAP MDM does not provide fuzzy matching capabilities, you more effectively find duplicates using BO DQ. But, merging of records, selecting individual fields for merged record is not possible in BO DQ. SAP MDM has an upper hand here.
3) Data enrichment is not possible in SAP MDM. BO DQ has built in dictionaries for Address check, zip codes etc.
Both tools have capabilities to connect to third party service like D&B. SAP MDM via the Enrichment Controller & DQ via web services.
4) Data Management workflow capabilities of integrating users, data stewards in the data quality process is better in SAP MDM.
Based on these points, if one is going for a BO DQ + SAP MDM approach, to get the best results we can design all the data quality validations, transformations, de-duplication, enrichment in BO DQ & the master data management activities like data governance, business process etc in SAP MDM.
Read the below weblog for more information
/people/ketan.phanse/blog/2008/11/27/taking-the-best-from-bo-dq-sap-mdm-worlds

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CA Forum: General Feedback
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