Data is one of the most important assets to modern organizations. Organizations digitally transform to harness the power of their unique data sets on products, customers, patients, users, processes, etc. Understanding your organization and the market you serve makes you…
Read onHVR stands for High Volume Replication. The technology is renowned for helping enterprise customers implement real-time data integration between database sources and targets in complex heterogeneous environments. In this market, HVR often supports SAP ERP systems as a source like…
Read onSAP applications are rich sources of extremely high-value data for any organization running SAP applications. But this data is not only valuable to the company running the SAP application. It’s just as important, if not more important, to the customers,…
Read onAs a platform, Snowflake supports your data modeling technique of choice including Data Vault, Kimball dimensional modeling, Inmon, some combination of techniques, or whatever you choose to build on your own. In Part 1 of this two-part post, we explain…
Read onOrganizations around the world work with us to integrate data from SAP to a target analytical data platform. Beyond the requests to replicate data for the physical (‘raw’) SAP tables, we’ve experienced an increase in demand to source from (HANA)…
Read onAWS Quick Start for HVR is available in the Amazon Web Services (AWS). What is HVR Quick Start? AWS Quick Start for HVR is a set of publicly available AWS CloudFormation templates that include high availability, security, and other necessary…
Read onPITT OHIO, a family-owned transportation company headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, established its legacy over 40 years ago with its Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) service. Since then, the organization has expanded to provide transportation, logistics, freight transportation, ground services, and supply chain solutions…
Read onIn data warehouse projects, integrating SAP data, one particular question usually pops up a couple of months into the project: “What about SAP Long Text?” Long Text (also referred to as SAPscript texts or text objects) are the containers attached…
Read onBusiness users access replicated data to offload complex queries from a transactional system or to consolidate data from multiple systems. Data warehouses and data lakes succeed or fail based on the ability to provide data that the business can trust….
Read onYou may have heard the term “digital transformation,” but what does it mean to transform a business? How can you maintain a competitive advantage, keep customers happy, and meet the bottom line? It all comes down to data. During the…
Read onAchieving maximum data replication performance is not easy. You run into many dependencies. Some are due to the environment and related to the source technology or target technology. Others are related to what you want to replicate. And finally, how…
Read onAfter several acquisitions, a leading e-tailer expanded its portfolio of brands and wants to unite the data collected across the enterprise. The entire portfolio is represented on the eCommerce site, however, things look very different on the backend. The data…
Read onThe first blog in this series discussed a general approach to achieving maximum performance. In the second blog, I highlighted HVR’s distributed architecture and its performance and scalability benefits. This post focuses on the initial—or one time—load: Refresh. Subsequent posts…
Read onIn the first blog of this series, I shared general concepts about data replication performance. This second post is about recommended performance architecture when deploying HVR. I will use real-world analogies to illustrate why the architecture is ideal for optimal…
Read onThis post is the first in a series of five to discuss data replication performance. This blog post focuses on performance objectives and general aspects of data performance. In the second post, we discuss HVR’s performance architecture. The remaining three…
Read onWhen Oracle Streams came out in Oracle 9i, it seemed that the Oracle world was about to change. Oracle had replication products beforehand. There was Oracle Replication in Oracle 8 and Advanced Replication since Oracle 7.3.4. DBAs had longed for…
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