For real-time processing, applications that are external to Informatica MDM Hub invoke Informatica MDM Hub operations through the Services Integration Framework (SIF) interface. SIF provides APIs for various Informatica MDM Hub services, such as reading, cleansing, matching, inserting, and updating records.

In Informatica MDM Hub implementations, real-time processing is used as appropriate. For example, real-time processing can be used to update data in the Hub Store whenever a record is added, updated, or deleted in a source system. Real-time processing can also be used to handle

incremental data loads

(data loads that occur after the initial data load) into the Hub Store.

For more information about SIF, see the

Informatica MDM Hub Services Integration Framework Guide

and the Informatica MDM Hub Javadoc. Informatica MDM Hub can generate events to notify external applications when specific data changes occur in the Hub Store.