The City of Lodi, maintains its financial and planning system data in disparate databases shared across internal departments. Historically, data maintenance and integration relied on a hand-coded intermediate Access database, which became increasingly inadequate as the city's systems expanded. To address growing complexity and ensure secure information sharing with businesses and taxpayers, Lodi aimed to implement a more scalable, automated data integration solution, such as Astera, to streamline data extraction, synchronization, and management across systems while enhancing operational efficiency and data security.

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