As company strategies are increasingly demand-driven, data warehouses and downstream business intelligence that are its life blood are playing an ever more important role. In this rapidly changing marketplace, the most successful companies are those that can predict - and react faster to - market trends and opportunities.
Measurable business value is derived from centralizing, standardizing and simplifying data. From a centralized data repository - the enterprise data warehouse (EDW), or perhaps an Operational Data Store (ODS) - data is readily available to decision-makers across the enterprise, providing an integrated, single view of the business. It allows for top-down and bottom-up navigation across all performance management applications that is built on a uniform data model.
Today’s enterprise business intelligence environments require real time data updates from legacy systems integrated with active data warehouse systems (an active data warehouse has updates streaming into it from the Shadowbase software to keep the warehouse’s data current). Shadowbase real-time integration solutions can load your business intelligence environment without impacting the operational systems that provide the data.
The Shadowbase technology provides an infrastructure to consolidate key business information in real-time by supporting a wide range of data sources. We let you make operational and tactical decisions in real-time using the most cost effective reporting and analytic solutions.
Key data warehouse/business intelligence characteristics of Shadowbase include:
- Configurable for extremely low replication latency (the ability to move source database changes to the target and apply them very quickly, in real-time). This keeps the data warehouse information refreshed to the current business state.
- Support for “batch” and snapshot, or “periodic refresh,” replication (e.g., the ability to batch changes and send periodically, perhaps when network traffic is low).
- Scales with volume to meet fluctuating database loads.
- Maximized flexibility for replication source and target feeds.
- Automatic recovery in the event of system, network, and database faults.
- Support for replication diversity, including built in functions for transformation, mapping, data cleansing, and data filtering.
