The food and service industry can benefit from real time data synchronization, and we're headed to the National Restaurant Association conference in Chicago to prove it. Everyone from chain owners to independents to distributors will gain from advanced data integration and synchronization. Let's look at some of the advantages it brings to business.

Join JumpMind at NRF and discover real-time data integration for retail with SymmetricDS. So much data is available in retail that can be made into actionable information. Retailers have access to pricing performance, loyalty activity, and shopping behavior of their customers. Using real time data integration gives retailers immediate feedback to make better decisions and offer new kinds of competitive services to shoppers.

SymmetricDS not only supports the synchronization of database tables, but it also supports the synchronization of files and folders. Using one tool and one interface, users can now synchronize their database and file system. This tutorial will walk through configuring SymmetricDS Pro to sync files.

A change data capture system like SymmetricDS will extract changes from the source and apply them at the target database. With logical replication, the user can conditionally sync data and create subsets to sync. But what if you want to hold back changes until a condition is met, then sync the change, plus all its dependent data? With some clever usage of features available in SymmetricDS 3.5, I'll show you how.

JumpMind will be promoting SymmetricDS at the Oracle OpenWorld 2013 conference in San Francisco from Sep 23rd through 26th. Come visit us at booth #3418 in the exhibition hall! We're looking forward to learning, networking, and engaging with everyone. Here are some reasons we're attending -- and we think you should too.

The professional edition of SymmetricDS 3.5 will be released soon, and it includes some great new features and improvements, including file synchronization, Sybase database support, and user interface enhancements.

We are about a week out at this point from the Percona Live MySQL conference, held in Santa Clara, California, and JumpMind is getting excited about it. As one of JumpMind's founders, I will be presenting a session on SymmetricDS at the conference, and JumpMind will also be revealing its newly-designed exhibit booth at the conference as well. We are putting the finishing touches on our presentation currently, in fact. The presentation will include a good summary of all the features and ways to use SymmetricDS and will also reveal a few new features and dialects that many people do not yet know about! Watch for tweets throughout the week of April 22nd as we reveal upcoming features, both big and small, in SymmetricDS.