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Data Synchronization Requirements

The planning and frequency of updates is one of the points that must be considered in the first planning phase. Often, during this period, requirements change and schedule updates need to be revised. Obviously, the granularity of a calendar on which updates/synchronizations are performed cannot be finer than what the source system can provide. However, planning must also consider performance considerations (see Challenges section below). Custom integrations can enable true data synchronization, but creating software to keep data in sync in two ways and in real time isn`t an easy task – it can take a long time to create it, and it`s certainly not cheap. Managing data in one place and sharing it with other applications is a good practice for managing and improving data quality. This avoids inconsistencies in data caused by updating the same data in a system. Security: Organizations need to differentiate between data that different parties can access due to security concerns. A production department may want to provide the data that customers can access.

There will also be reads (display of available products) and writes (placing orders) in the data that the organization expects to keep separate for security reasons. In many applications, it is assumed that the task of preprocessing the data is performed by learning algorithms, or at least that the data has already been preprocessed before it arrives. In most cases, these expectations do not correspond to reality. This is especially true for our proposed system, which extracts streaming data from temporary stream storage. The disordered data synchronization problem (also known as the set adjustment problem) is modeled as an attempt to calculate the symmetric difference S A ⊕ S B = ( S A − S B ) ∪ ( S B − S A ) {displaystyle S_{A}oplus S_{B}=(S_{A}-S_{B})cup (S_{B}-S_{A})} between two remote sets S A {displaystyle S_{A}} and S B {displaystyle S_{B}} of numbers [2] Some solutions to this problem are characterized by: The biggest challenge with real-time data synchronization is working with systems that do not provide APIs to identify changes. In such cases, performance can be the limiting factor. Today`s businesses are globally distributed: companies tend to have geographically distributed data for multiple purposes. These include managing the business globally, maintaining low latency, reducing network usage costs, and achieving high availability. If an update occurs in a particular system in another region, it must also be reflected in systems in other regions. For example, if a new product becomes available, this particular information must be available in all regions, even if the region-by-region data instances are different.

The need for data synchronization depends on the MDM style. If copies of master data are kept in other sources in addition to the MDM hub, they should be synchronized regularly. Some domains may require real-time synchronization, while others may be filled with batch updates. A key factor is which system is the SOR for master data in that particular area. Keep in mind that there are MDM styles where the MDM hub becomes the SOR for specific domain master data, while the MDM hub in other styles is simply a reference system. In Section 4.6, we described how the data synthesis and synchronization mechanism is constructed to form a membrane (the interaction membrane) around the composite. The membrane is the boundary at which transformations take place between internal messages (due to role-role interactions) and external messages (role-player interactions). An external interaction can consist of internal interactions when a service call needs to be made.

Conversely, an external interaction can cause other internal interactions. Transformations must be carried out to disseminate the data across the membrane. The membrane isolates external interactions from central (internal) processes (and vice versa) to ensure organizational stability. To support this concept, the design of the Serendip runtime must address a number of challenges. Synchronous formats are distinguished as bit- or byte-oriented. Early formats were byte-oriented in design, where the message is handled at the character level. Character-level handling applies code dependency, which means that the basic network logic depends on the particular code used to represent the characters (for example, the U.S. Standard Code for Information Exchange (ASCII) or the Extended Coded Binary-Decimal Exchange Code (EBCDIC)). Subtle problems are also inherent in byte-oriented formats. For example, a data block might contain a control character as a normal part of the sender`s data. If this is not the case, the network control logic can take action at the wrong time in response to the control character of the data block. Bit-oriented formats treat the message as a string of bits and leave the composition of the characters to top-level network functions.

This has the immediate benefit of code transparency and is the preferred method in newer format designs. The synchronization process should be monitored to determine whether the timing and frequency of updates meet the needs of the organization. For example, Notion is often criticized for the lack of an offline mode. Trello, on the other hand, listened to its users and implemented this most requested feature in 2017. All of this makes offline data synchronization an essential feature for many applications and a clear competitive advantage when developing GPS, medical or banking navigation solutions. Sometimes it is possible to convert the problem into one of the messy data through a process known as shingles (dividing ropes into shingles). [6] Data integration takes data from various sources, validates it (to eliminate redundancies and inaccuracies), transforms it (to the data model used by the data warehouse), and then loads it into the data warehouse.