Transactional data that are high volume and shared across locations should be centralized. Additionally, if the data for all locations must be current, centralization becomes mandatory. Some organizations have tried to work around this by replicating updates to distributed databases in remote locations with limited success. Using a replication approach increases the complexity of an organization's data architecture and results in increased network traffic. If any of the following criteria are present within your organization, a centralized database strategy is mandatory:
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