Synchronize All Operational and Transactional Systems with High-Quality Data in Real Time

Let’s say your IT organization has been charged with creating and maintaining an enterprise-wide system of record for customer data, product data, or supplier/vendor data. Or you’re creating an audit trail to comply with industry regulations. Or collaborating with partners or offshore development teams.

You need to make sure your data is consistent across many applications and systems. Yet data destined for multiple applications is usually only captured in one system. Your IT organization is tasked with synchronizing that data with all the other systems that need it.

Common Data Synchronization Challenges

Typically tackled as part of a larger application or business process initiative, data synchronization projects are frequently underestimated in terms of their complexity and reach. Data synchronization projects are often expensive and risky because of:

• Complexity of data formats. The wide variety of enterprise systems—including packaged applications, mainframes, enterprise application integration tools, and databases—requires specific data formats. This complexity can result in an explosion of data definitions that lead to inaccuracies.
• Different data integration needs. Some systems may require batch processing of bulk data. Others systems need to integrate changes as they occur in real time to support up-to-the-minute operations.
• Questionable data quality. You can’t allow inaccurate, inconsistent, or out-of-date data to proliferate as it is synchronized between applications and systems.
• Security concerns. Data synchronization with partners or outsourced providers across WANs and corporate firewalls can raise security issues.
• Performance considerations. Reliability and performance are paramount when mission-critical applications require synchronized data.
• Maintenance issues. Once data is loaded into an application, it must be constantly synchronized between the application and other operational systems.

Informatica can help.

Informatica’s data synchronization solution can help your IT organization synchronize all operational and transactional systems with consistent and accurate data in batch, near real-time, and real-time modes to reduce costs, speed time to results, and supply the business with the information it needs to make better, timelier decisions.