**Foundation Data Sync (FDS)** enables the structured, periodic sharing of data from provider to consumer instances. It ensures that consumers have access to accurate, up-to-date foundational data from providers, supporting better service delivery and operational alignment.

FDS is a data synchronization mechanism that enables a provider instance to share foundational data with consumer instances on a scheduled basis, such as daily, weekly, or monthly.

FDS supports all CMDB tables and the following non-CMDB tables: Asset, Company, User, Group, Location, Department, Stockroom, Product Model, Knowledge, Hardware Model, Consumable Model, Hardware, and Consumable.

- **Create and Publish an Offering** : Define the data that you, as a provider want to share with the Service Exchange consumer.
- **Receive and manage a Offering Request** : Customers with Foundation Data Sync for Consumers can request that offering from their ServiceNow instance.
- **Refine, Validate, and Send the data with Subscription Items** : Once requested, Foundation Data Sync will pre-generate the subscription items defined in the offering, which can then be filtered further by the provider if desired. When ready, a provider can then test and validate the data sharing before sending in full.