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Application Ingestion and Replication
Application Ingestion and Replication can transfer data from Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and on-premise applications to cloud-based data lakes, data warehouses, and event streaming platforms.
The SaaS and on-premise applications used in your business or organization store large amounts of business-critical data on a daily basis. You can use Application Ingestion and Replication to transfer the data stored by your applications to targets that can handle large volumes of data. After you transfer the data to the target, you can consolidate the data and use it for various purposes, such as advanced data analytics and data warehousing.
Application Ingestion and Replication can perform the following types of load operations:
•Initial load. Loads source data read at a single point in time to a target. After the data is loaded, the ingestion job ends. You can use this load type to materialize a target to which incremental changes will be sent later.
•Incremental load. Loads data changes continuously or until the ingestion job is stopped or ends. The ingestion job loads the changes that have occurred since the last time it ran or from a specific start point. You can use this load type to keep data in the target up to date so that you can make informed decisions for your business or organization based on the latest data.
•Initial and Incremental load. Performs an initial load of point-in-time data to the target and then automatically switches to propagating incremental data changes made to the same source objects on a continuous basis.