Data Synchronization

"Information is the oxygen of the modern age."
 - Ronald Reagan

Business Challenge

As the pace of business quickens, the need for accurate and timely business information to drive decision making has become a top business priority. But with key data scattered across multiple databases, geographies and business units, information sharing has proven to be an elusive goal. Inability to provide a consistent view of data across systems results in decision-making based on out-of-date information. This costs corporations billions of dollars in lost revenue, waste and high cost of operations.

Traditional data replication often cannot scale beyond a small number of systems as operational complexity, heavy processing burden and inefficient use of network resources restricts flexibility. When it emerged 20 years ago, data replication was designed for periodic bulk transfers, often overnight. Today, the world is increasingly real-time making yesterday’s data useless for many business needs.

Solution Summary

A Solace content networking solution, coupled with off-the-shelf change data capture (CDC) software delivers real-time data synchronization across diverse data sources. CDC software identifies individual data changes and passes these events to Solace content routers to determine which other systems are affected. The Solace content networking system routes, transforms and delivers each update to target databases and applications throughout the network.

Solace’s database synchronization solutions efficiently distribute data between all kinds of databases with minimal impact on the source systems. Data is only sent once over expensive wide-area network (WAN) links, regardless of the number of recipients. This significantly improves performance and lowers costs and bandwidth requirements for WAN links.

Value to Customers

Solace data synchronization solutions offer many compelling benefits:

  • Improved decision making — Access to accurate real-time information improves decision making, eliminating waste associated with poor decisions made on out–of-date information.
  • Efficient network resource use — Solace minimizes wide area networking loads by reusing data delivery when many data sources are being updated and only sending the specific events required by remote systems based on user-defined business rules. This saves time and money when synchronizing to remote locations.
  • Reduced operational complexity — Solace data synchronization solutions provide a single distribution architecture which allows operation even when some data sources are offline. Solace data synchronization also supports local and remote system distribution across many different vendors’ databases. This is much more flexible, reliable and simpler to manage than traditional database replication.
  • High throughput reliable delivery — Solace content networking can handle very high volumes of data updates and scales easily to the most demanding environments. Data can be reformatted as it is delivered with persistent, failsafe delivery. The more sources and destinations in a data synchronization configuration, the more important efficient routing and high-speed delivery are to solution viability.
  • Reduced load on database servers — One of the major challenges with continuous data replication is the workload it adds to production database servers. Solace data synchronization offloads the job of moving information around resulting in better database application performance