What’s New in Data Exchange 4.0?

Unisys Data Exchange enables selective and near-real-time data replication and transformation from a source data store to one or more target data stores.

With it, you can propagate a selected set of data across data stores, and while doing so, apply transformations that help you support business process integration, reporting, big data analytics, and business intelligence activities. And when you do, you’ll be able to increase operational efficiency, reduce development and maintenance costs, minimize overhead, and make IT more flexible and responsive.

And now, with Data Exchange 4.0, we’re extending these benefits by delivering new capabilities designed to help you:

Increase interoperability with Oracle databases: You now have the freedom to propagate data to Oracle databases from either Enterprise Database Server for ClearPath MCP (DMSII) or Relational Database Server for ClearPath OS 2200 (RDMS) databases.
Recover from errors faster: To help minimize the interruptions errors can cause during bulk data transformations, you can now restart the transformation from the point it stopped when the error occurred.
Align data transformations with business requirements: With the help of standard and user-defined functions, you can customize your data transformations in ways that help them reflect and align with changing business demands.
Avoid propagating unneeded data: You’ll have access to a new set of filters that enables you to pare down the data you propagate to a subset that satisfies specific criteria.
Transform data faster and with more flexibility: With the Data Manipulation Language (DML) command substitution, you can map a set of source commands to another set of commands at the target.
Strengthen security: Data Exchange 4.0 helps you more effectively protect your organization’s data assets by enabling you to create an exclusive Data Exchange account to use when logging on to the target SQL Server, use the HTTPS protocol to view the Administration Site, and configure the product’s components to enhance security outside of the ClearPath Forward™ environment.

Data Exchange in the Real World

So, how are Unisys clients putting these and other features in Data Exchange to use?

One client is using Data Exchange to propagate data in real time from DMSII to an Oracle database, while also building a data warehouse to support reporting, trend analysis, and mobile banking. This is helping the organization connect to a Common Reporting Standard (CRS) system, which enables it to fight financial fraud by automatically exchanging information about an individual’s assets and income.

Data Exchange is helping another client extract data from its Unisys Financial Services System (UFSS) and send it to a management information system with an Oracle database as its target.

And Data Exchange is giving a third client a single view of its customers and centralized data source for analytics and marketing purposes by extracting large amounts of new and historical data – including account, mortgage, and loan information – from multiple sources, including RDMS.

Data Exchange is available on ClearPath Forward Libra and Dorado 4300, 6300, and 8300 systems, as well as all ClearPath® Software Series products. Please visit our web site to learn more about Data Exchange and the benefits it can bring to your organization. And for even more information about Data Exchange, check out our technical documentation and YouTube playlist.

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