In today's rapidly changing global economy, a critical issue facing every organization is the freshness of their business data. Knowing about your business sooner, rather than later, provides a competitive edge and enables you to better manage through unexpected situations.

Sponsored by GoldenGate Software, this study explores the cost factors of acquiring low-latency data from transaction systems into the enterprise data warehouse. The study explores five typical architectures for data acquisition and estimates the cost factors for each. Although subjective estimates were used in this study, they are based on first hand experiences with several large systems in production today.

Learn why the accepted industry wisdom about low-latency data is rapidly shifting.