Data Synchronization

Provide Cross-enterprise Business Applications with Critical Data

Ensuring data is consistent across a large number of applications is always a challenge whether it is streamlining customer contact points, complying with industry regulations, enabling global sourcing or working to provide a global customer or product master. The challenge is that data required for use across multiple applications is usually only captured in one system. As a result, IT is tasked with synchronizing that data into all the other systems that need it.

Data synchronization is commonly tackled as part of a larger application or business process initiative. This approach tends to create a siloed environment that is often underestimated in complexity, hard to maintain, does not scale, and results in inconsistencies across a large enterprise.

Challenges

Data synchronization is often expensive and risky because:

• Diverse demands for delivery of data at different frequencies creates the need for batch and transactional data integration at different times and for different needs
• Integration across WAN and firewall for synchronization with partners or outsource providers raises security unease and can cause performance concerns
• Increasing complexity of applications requiring specific data formats and transformations results in an explosion of definitions that lead to inaccuracies
• Mission-critical applications requiring synchronized data makes the need for reliability and performance paramount

Informatica Solution

Informatica has helped leading organizations successfully complete their data synchronization projects under budget and with greater consistency. Using Informatica’s leading enterprise data integration platform, organizations benefit from a secure, scalable, and flexible foundation with all the capabilities required for creating and managing data synchronization efforts inside and outside the enterprise.

By leveraging Informatica’s enterprise data integration platform for data synchronization efforts organizations benefit from:

• Reduced time-to-value for IT
• Minimized risk for meeting the challenges associated with complex, diverse data synchronization requirements
• Improved consistency of data definitions and reuse of business rules across multiple applications, processes, and organizations

Key capabilities include:

• Meet diverse demands using a single data integration platform for synchronizing data in batch, change and real-time
• Secure synchronization across firewalls leveraging built-in security with RSA encryption and compression for high performance
• Create a single view of master data with fully integrated data cleansing for addressing inconsistencies in data across systems
• Enterprise scalability and reliability to address the most complex and challenging data synchronization needs