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

In 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. Incremental data loads are loads that occur after the initial data is loaded into the Hub Store.

For more information about SIF, see the

Multidomain MDM Services Integration Framework Guide

and the

Multidomain MDM

Javadoc

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