Frequently, development and production environments have different values for network settings such as server names and IP addresses. Some configuration data tables in the Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation store host names, IP addresses, and URLs. While these are valid for your source environment, when deploying this data into the target environment, the configuration must be updated with the corresponding values applicable to the target environment. The CDT enables you to automatically transform these data elements into target-appropriate values by letting you specify transformations to be carried out on the source data before it is deployed into the target.