B2B Integration : A Practical Guide to Collaborative E-commerce

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Figure 3.5. — Multi-site data replication
replication for B2B data sources is usually done on a schedule basis
and not on an event basis.
3.2.2. Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) solution
An ETL data integration solution performs the task of extracting,
transforming, cleaning, routing and loading the data from different
types of data sources, such as applications, enterprise wide databases,
data warehouses and data marts, into the target data source (see
Figure 3.6). It is a single solution of data movement and translation that
encompasses all the individual solutions implemented in a company in
the form of data warehouses, data federations and other data integration
applications. Whether the data resides in DB2, Oracle, Sybase, MS-
SQL Server, IMS, VSAM, Informix or any other relational or nonrelational
data source, the solution integrates it seamlessly, thereby
enabling companies to achieve B2Bi. An ETL-based solution allows
organizations to filter and publish corporate data securely over intranets,
extranets or the Internet so that authorized business partners with Web