Continuous Availability – Using Data Federation and Change Data Capture to Manage Information Synchrony

The organically grown application landscape is rife with independent business processes, potentially working at cross-purposes. Aligning functional departmental systems with an enterprise information management strategy exposes opportunities for data sharing and information reuse, as well as improved collaboration reliant on a coherent centralized enterprise information asset. However, despite the approaches used for data extraction and data warehouse population, real time operational activities continue to create, modify, or retire data, leading to increasing inconsistency between data warehouse refreshes.