B2B data exchange takes place via flat files, XML files, services, EDI, and other means. Organizations receive data from a variety of business partners, government agencies, third party data aggregators, and others.
Data formats vary between partners and even between different transfers with a single partner. It is not uncommon to see large teams of IT and business resources dedicated to transforming, validating, and cleansing incoming data from various sources. These teams commonly use a jumble of homegrown systems, ad-hoc programs, and off-the-shelf programs such as Excel, Access, and others to perform these tasks. Adding a new data source requires significant development work and impedes the business’s ability to integrate new customers and partners. Moreover, regulatory and compliance issues requiring improved auditing, tracking, and security capabilities means that this approach is no longer sustainable.
The Centerprise 5 feature set reflects Astera’s deep experience in data validation, cleansing and transformation. With Centerprise, data conversion specialists can now:
Integrated data validation and profiling features highlight and resolve data quality issues.
Need to migrate data as part of a merger integration process? Moving to a new in-house developed or package application as part of a legacy modernization effort? Data migration is time-consuming, risky, and resource intensive. Most IT projects bog down or fail outright because of data migration issues.
A data migration project requires developing a deep insight into structure and quality of data in source systems, understanding differences between source and target systems, and deploying the appropriate toolset and human resources. Due to typically large data volumes, scalability and performance are essential to any data migration platform.
Centerprise’s high-performance, parallel processing engine ensures an efficient migration process by providing the speed and scalability needed for very high volume data migrations while the integrated validation and profiling features provide clear visibility into all aspects of data migration.
The combination of Astera’s Centerprise technology, Professional Services, and proven migration project methodologies means less time, effort and resources will be required than attempting to do so on your own, or through working with those new to data migration.Learn more about Astera's Data Migration Services.
IT organizations of all size now face the challenge of integrating disparate on-premise and SaaS applications. As these applications evolve and their use expands, the integration code must be modified to support the evolving business needs. Development and maintenance of these integration points via manual coding or hard to use enterprise level products consumes a significant portion of IT budget, and valuable time.
Centerprise brings a new level of efficiency and transparency to the application integration process. Centerprise’s high-performance engine facilitates faster data transfers between applications. Its visual approach to managing data integration brings major productivity improvements in developing and maintaining integration jobs.
Centerprise’s strong integration with version control systems such as Microsoft Team Foundation ensures that teams spanning the globe and time zones can collaborate on integration projects.
The upcoming features for real-time data integration will further this capability and support near real-time and real-time integration where your business needs demand.
The increasing pressure of business today demands efficient, timely, and accurate data. Moving entire data sets via a batch-oriented integration method is no longer sufficient to meet your business requirements. Your business has more data than even, and needs to share that data with vendors, partners and other internal teams and applications- faster and more efficiently. Latency requirements are shrinking, and data volumes increasing. Today’s most efficient businesses require a smarter approach to data integration.
Real time change data capture has fast become the integration method of choice for businesses where multiple databases and applications must be kept in sync. Change data capture increases operational efficiencies, saving time and resources by eliminating redundant data transfer and reducing network bandwidth.
Centerprise’s Change Data Capture is a smarter way to ensure peak performance of your mission critical applications and a database, ensuring your information is as up to the minute as you need it to be.
Centerprise Data Integrator supports a variety of change data capture strategies, including both batch and real-time, enabling you to select the appropriate strategy for your environment and requirements.
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Data warehouses and data marts provide the business intelligence needed for timely and accurate business decisions. High quality ETL functionality is vital to the success of any data warehousing project. Ability to pull data from a variety of application silos, cleanse, transform, and aggregate data in a timely fashion establishes your data mart as a reliable tool that your organization can depend on for decision making insight. Hand-coding of these ETL jobs is no longer a viable option for any nontrivial project.
Centerprise data integrator’s breadth of connectors coupled with its high-speed parallel processing engine provide your organization with the tools needed to efficiently process high data volumes. The sophisticated data flow and data quality features ensure that you're able to meet the most demanding data transformation requirements, quickly, accurately and easily.
Centerprise’s built-in Slowly Changing Dimension write strategy applies a fast compare-and-update algorithm to quickly process the largest dimension tables with relative ease. High speed data-loading using bulk loads, lookup caching, and other optimizations ensure that you can process high volume fact table loads on the fly.Data validation and profiling features give you greater insight into the quality of your data as part of your ongoing improvement process.