Data Distribution

The distributed nature of business today mandates that a company be able to replicate and distribute information on a timely basis to multiple locations enterprise-wide. Typical applications involving data distribution include:

• Supplying branches and remote employees with new pricing catalogs;
• Equipping field sales representatives with updated product information;
• Replicating data sources to world-wide offices to maintain consistent corporate information;
• Inventory control for just in time ordering across supply chains; Accessing data sources at multiple locations to generate consolidated reports.

As a comprehensive solution, dbSpaces offers the following key capabilities to ensure data is distributed and replicated effectively and accurately:

• Replication. dbSpaces's optional replication module enables synchronous and asynchronous replication of information to any data source regardless of location and data format.
• Persistent Messaging. Because systems and networks are not always available, dbSpaces ensures delivery of updates and distributions of data occur accurately via its optional persistent messaging module.
• Update Priority. dbSpaces enables three levels of update priority - Primary, Secondary, and Branch - to determine who has the ultimate right to modify and replicate information at a specific location.
• Security and Audit. dbSpaces restricts unauthorized users from viewing, accessing or updating information and also maintains audit records of any changes made.

dbSpaces is an excellent solution to the challenges of distributing information across the enterprise.

With dbSpaces, managing your distributed data is made easy because of its:

• Ability to access, view, manage, replicate, update, query and deploy any data. dbSpaces allows advanced data source management, regardless of physical location or format, including legacy data sources.
• Modular approach to data - your applications can interact with all your data as if it were a single data source, providing easy access to all the various data sources required.
• Data Location Transparency - end users request information without knowing the data source or the physical location of the data.
• Virtual Views of Information - allow users to see an aggregation of information that doesn't exist in one specific database.
• Fast Real Time Access - it's easy for your applications to get the data they need, when they need it.
• Alerts and events - based on changes in data, dbSpaces can initiate user defined business logic.
• Security and Audit features - user authorization privileges and audit tracking of changes provide security and protect confidentiality.
• Data Snapshots - capture and view data at specific times for trend analysis.
• Simultaneous Multiple Data Source Access - handle all your data sources as if they were a single data source.
• Alias Table and Column Names - easily map names which may not be suitable for reporting (legacy, flat file or COBOL) to a more usable name.