Many enterprise applications require data sharing — integrating with existing (or legacy) systems — to realize their full potential and return on investment. Pega 8 implements real-time interfaces (such as RDB, SOAP, and MQ) to retrieve data and post transactions to legacy databases, without manipulating the existing data as illustrated below.

Smart Investigate for Payments comes with a sample database that contains typical, industry- standard data you can use to demonstrate the system out of the box, even at sites that do not have or have not integrated with pre-existing systems. These sample tables can also serve as a starting point, or test bed, from which you can develop and test business logic, modify rules and schemas, and start integrating workflows with external data sources.