This chapter helps you evaluate your application level requirements against product capabilities. The term application level requirements refers to the requirements of the target application, specifically the type of data required in the target tables (including any subsetting, transformations, or enhancements to the source data), the currency of the data copies, and the consistency of the data copies.
This chapter also helps you further refine your requirements through an evaluation of your source-to-target mapping needs. After reading this chapter, you will be able to plan the time required to implement your replication solution. You will understand which requirements are met by basic techniques, and which require more advanced techniques.