The dangers of replication and a solution
SIGMOD '96 Proceedings of the 1996 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Understanding Replication in Databases and Distributed Systems
ICDCS '00 Proceedings of the The 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems ( ICDCS 2000)
Data propagation as an enabling technology for collaboration and cooperative information systems
Computers in Industry - Special issue: Knowledge sharing in collaborative design environments
Champagne: data change propagation for heterogeneous information systems
VLDB '02 Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Very Large Data Bases
Synchronizing copies of external data in workflow management systems
CAiSE'05 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
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Today, it is common that enterprises manage several mostly heterogeneous information systems to supply their production and business processes with data. There is a need to exchange data between the information systems while preserving system autonomy. Hence, an integration approach that relies on a single global enterprise data schema is ruled out. This is also due to the widespread usage of legacy systems. We propose a system, called Propagation Manager, which manages dependencies between data objects stored in different information systems. A script specifying complex data transformations and other sophisticated activities, like the execution of external programs, is associated with each dependency. For example, an object update in a source system can trigger data transformations of the given source data for each destination system that depends on the object. Our system is implemented using current XML technologies. We present the architecture and processing model of our system and demonstrate the benefit of our approach by illustrating an extensive example scenario.