Features and benefits
- IBM InfoSphere® Data Event Publisher facilitates business integration by linking changed data events in DB2 databases on Linux, UNIX, and Windows with enterprise application integration (EAI) solutions like WebSphere Business Integrator, message brokers like WebSphere Message Broker, data transformation tools like InfoSphere DataStage, and more.
- DB2 changed-data events are captured and published as WebSphere MQ messages that can be used by other applications and tools to drive subsequent processing.
- InfoSphere Data Event Publisher provides efficient changed-data solutions that enable many types of business scenarios:
Application-to-application integration - Changes to operational customer data can be pushed to a data integration solutions like InfoSphere DataStage for updating a customer relationship management (CRM) application's data
Business process initiation - Adding a customer record can initiate a WebSphere Business Integrator workflow that results in a welcome e-mail, a credit verification and an update to the CRM system
Critical data event monitoring - Changed-data events can be delivered to WebSphere MQ Broker so that a low inventory level can be used to initiate a product restocking workflow
Change-only data population - Data changes in operational systems can be fed to InfoSphere DataStage or another extract, transform, and load (ETL) product that then populates a data warehouse, data mart, or operational data store with the changes
