Traditional solutions
> Existence of multiple databases in one system
> Database are not synchronized
> Data are not maintained
> Many and complex manual data input

Solution to data and application integration platform
> Establish connection with database via JDBC, FTP or File. ELT components manage Data extraction, transformation and load.
> A typical case is to extract data from database, map to another data format and insert into another database.
> Database synchronization can be handled with a pre-arranged schedule.

Advantages
> Apart from data exchange and integration, platform can also be used to integrate multiple application and used for SOA
> Integration of the existing applications
> Web service standards such as WSDL, SOAP, HTTP/S, WS-Security and transaction are well supported.
> Lots of work done in north America and China
> Local development team
> Requirements in local market are taken into consideration