Informatica Data Replication

Executive Brief

Informatica Data Replication Synchronizing Operational Data in Real Time Across a Heterogeneous Environment “Informatica Data Replication allows organizations to gather operational data distributed among multiple source systems—noninvasively—and rapidly load that data into the target system.”

Until recently, companies typically stored their data in a central repository. This wasn’t much of a problem when a company acted locally or had a centralized main office with mainframe computers that controlled the company’s data. But over time, as enterprises have become more global, data storage strategies have evolved from the centralized paradigm to a more widely distributed architecture. As companies are merged or acquired or satellite offices are opened, data needs are increasingly determined at the departmental level. The trend has resulted in the distribution of data across many different systems, applications, and vendors. But the decentralization of data has led to numerous complications, most notably the incidence of inconsistent, out-of-date, or duplicate data that cannot be trusted or relied upon. How can organizations resolve this growing problem? How can they keep their data current, relevant, and accurate across a multitude of heterogeneous applications and databases? The answer is data replication.

The Increasing Importance of Data Replication Data replication technology is being increasingly utilized to keep data in synch across operational applications. It is also used to support the primary objective of operational synchronization: to build a complete, 360-degree view of business entities across an organization. In fact, data replication plays a central role in a number of operational synchronization scenarios. One prime example of operational synchronization involves customer data. Many organizations have multiple customer relationship management (CRM) and/or sales force automation (SFA) applications, which store information about customers. However, given the rise in globalization combined with the fact that organizations are doing business through multiple channels (both off-line and on-line), it is increasingly important for enterprises to construct a full 360-degree view of their customer base. Such a view allows them to offer their customers a seamless and personalized experience irrespective of the channel through which the customer interacts with their business. Data replication technology synchronizes data across multiple CRM and/or SFA applications, furnishing enterprises with precisely the comprehensive view of their customer base that they seek.

Informatica Data Replication Informatica® Data Replication rises to the challenges brought about by decentralized data and meets the demands of operational synchronization. Its highly flexible technology allows organizations to gather operational data distributed among multiple source systems—non-invasively—and rapidly load that data into the target system. This process ensures that a complete and accurate copy of the data is available to the business so that a comprehensive, 360-degree view of business entities can be constructed. Five key features make Informatica Data Replication ideal for operational synchronization scenarios: Intuitive, Easy-to-Use GUI. A simple but powerful user interface supports all aspects of design and deployment, including mapping among different data stores and datatypes. This GUI makes Informatica Data Replication easy to implement and administer. IT organizations can construct and deploy distributed topologies, as well as monitor the performance and other characteristics of the replication process—all from a centralized location. GUI-driven mapping, configuration, deployment, scheduling, and management capabilities eliminate the need for scripting. You can design once and deploy anywhere across a distributed landscape. Unintrusive Transactional Capture. A log-based change data capture (CDC) technique detects changed transactional data and delivers it to target systems with low latency while maintaining the transactional integrity of the data. Because it uses log-based CDC technology, Informatica Data Replication extracts data with minimal impact on the performance of the operational source systems. It accesses database logs instead of using performance-impacting database resources such as triggers or direct SQL queries. Transactional changes are captured in real time, and the changes are applied to other databases, data warehouses, analytical appliances, or even portable format text files, using flexible delivery scheduling.

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Informatica Data Replication allows IT to provide business users with the freshest data from a wide array of operational systems for faster, more accurate decision making.

Heterogeneous Support and Database Independence. Informatica Data Replication is a database-agnostic technology. It works seamlessly with an ever-expanding range of traditional and emerging source and target systems, seamlessly delivering data to databases, warehouses, analytical appliances, and big data stores such as Hadoop. It can apply light transformations (SQL or TCL scripting can be leveraged) on data in motion before delivering the data to the target system. It also supports a full range of replication topologies (e.g., oneto-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, many-to-many, and bidirectional configurations). Enterprise-Class Scalability and Reliability. Informatica Data Replication’s multithreaded architecture, backed with automatic intelligent parallelism, makes it easy to scale across large volumes. This architecture enables transactional data changes to be delivered while maintaining the consistency and integrity of the data. Reliability of the data delivery process is guaranteed by a unique check-pointing capability. To keep exceptions from disrupting or preventing data delivery into the target system, this capability supports recoverability at the granular, component level. Informatica Data Replication ensures high performance across all transaction volumes. It automatically detects and resolves any transaction collisions by using predetermined rules to allow continuous operations without compromising data integrity. And it supports seamless recoverability from exceptions that may occur during the data replication task. End-to-End Integration. As a component of the Informatica Platform, Informatica Data Replication provides a complete suite of sophisticated data management capabilities. The software works in concert with the core platform to meet all the data integration, data movement, data quality, and data currency needs of an organization.

Conclusion Throughout the enterprise, the volumes of operational and transactional data that need to be integrated and synchronized across applications are growing significantly. This growth has spiked demand for more robust tools and techniques in operational synchronization. Your IT organization needs a new kind of data replication technology—one that provides the capabilities to help your team meet not only traditional business requirements but also emerging ones. This new kind of data replication technology must offer high performance, low latency, data and transactional integrity, and reliability—all with little-to-no impact on source system performance. And it must scale to handle an ever-expanding range of source and target systems. Informatica Data Replication meets all of these needs. With it, your IT organization can accelerate project delivery, improve system performance, and lower overhead costs. Informatica Data Replication empowers your IT organization to: • Boost efficiency by facilitating real-time data integration, consolidation, and

About Informatica Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is the world’s number one independent provider of data integration software. Organizations around the world rely on Informatica for maximizing return on data to drive their top business imperatives. Worldwide, over 4,630 enterprises depend on Informatica to fully leverage their information assets residing onpremise, in the Cloud and across social networks.

synchronization to ensure that all data in distributed systems remains synchronized and accurate • Increase productivity by providing business users with a 360-degree view of

business entities • Save costs and perpetuate data availability by minimizing downtime from planned and

unplanned outages Informatica Data Replication provides robust features and a reliable, modular architecture that makes it the strategic choice for real-time operational synchronization.

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