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According to Loraine Lawson from ITBusinessEdge, becoming truly data-driven is not only about technology, it's about culture. Following a recent article in CIO.com, she boiled it down to these six unique ways successful companies use data to outperform their competitors:

Transportation and Logistics leader JAS Forwarding achieves global reporting with real-time updates from DBMoto Data Replication and Change Data Capture solution.

Your information initiatives are only as good as the accuracy of the data supporting them.

If you are having a difficult time getting data merged from various databases, or getting fast updates from Oracle or other databases, consider this:

Get the basic details in this enjoyable and short video on DBMoto, a real-time Data Replication and Change Data Capture solution from HiT Software, Inc.

In the world of Big Data projects, you are faced with the three V's: Velocity, Volume and Variety. Many people believe that if they can just store all their data in a Cloud-based or HDFS system, it solves their big data dilemmas.  Not so.  There is still the very real issue of accessing and sharing that data with corporate data.  Many of the best insights are made from a combination of many data details sourced from various systems, i.e. "the whole is greater than the parts."

Feel like your data is unreachable?

Establishing a disaster recovery plan, or a backup and restore plan, is mandatory in some industries and is recommended where failures cause incalculable disruption to the business. Many disaster recovery and backup/restore solutions are based on the replacement of data in block-based fashion, meaning that portions of data are replaced as they are stored, not by their contextual meaning. By using Change Data Capture, businesses can have the best of both worlds — they can keep a hot standby copy of their data, while maintaining the most accurate and meaningful version of the data available in the standby copy, for immediate access in the event of a catastrophe.

If you require real-time or batch data updates either to or from Oracle databases, there are alternatives available to you! Change Data Capture (CDC) provides a streamlined method of sending data changes from one database to another, avoiding the time-consuming and inefficient batch approach of simply copying one database to the other.

Do you have a reporting application that only uses SQL Server, but the primary data you need to report on is in your IBM DB2 for i? Or, do you have a situation where you need to combine data from your IBM i/AS400 and other systems into SQL Server? First, don’t panic.  These are not unusual problems, they can be solved without a lot of cost or effort.