To meet growing business demands, operate flexibly and efficiently, and comply with regulatory and other requirements, enterprises need access to data from a wide variety of sources, including heterogeneous databases, flat files, XML data and Web services. Use of this data is often made more challenging by requirements such as restrictions on making copies or extracts of the data, ongoing access to real-time updates and providing centralized data views that combine real-time data from operational systems with historical information from data warehouses. Sybase offers a solution to these data integration challenges with the Data Federation component of the Data Integration Suite.

Data Federation is enterprise information integration (EII) software that streamlines the integration of data from many distributed sources without replicating or moving the data from the original sources. Data Federation provides applications with standardized access to integrated views of data through a single data layer that masks the complexity of the diverse underlying data sources.

Data Federation is ideal for companies seeking a flexible, scalable and efficient way to integrate and deliver data from diverse distributed sources to key enterprise applications that require fresh data consolidated from multiple operational systems. Examples of these applications include corporate performance management, integrated customer service, risk management, regulatory and financial reporting and a variety of government and military applications.

While some EII solutions focus narrowly on one integration method—distributed query—and can support only one project, Data Federation adds the flexibility to address a broad range of integration projects and the scalability to extend a single data access layer across a distributed enterprise. With Data Federation, you can deploy an efficient data integration architecture that eases application development and maintenance, promotes a single view of the truth, reduces data management costs, and helps you get more from existing investments in data management, business intelligence and reporting systems.