What's in a name? Data integration can refer to a few functions. It can comprise a set of extract, transform and load (ETL) functions that gather information from databases. Or it can perform as an enterprise application integration (EAI), where applications communicate across platforms and pool data. Then again, data integration can be a Web services project, where one application can grab and manipulate data from another application.
Or it could be a combination of the three. IT departments have multiple ways to pool, share and distribute data. The question isn't whether you can break down your old data silos, but how you do it.
Taming Data Chaos
Stories in this report:
- Taming Data Chaos
- The Story So Far
- Merging Data Silos
- Beware of Data Overload from External Data
- Learn to Manage Data, Not Crises
- Data's Tower of Babel
- Extracting Dollars From Data
- Why ROI is so Elusive
- Collections of Data: Bases, Marts, Warehouses
- The Power of Location
- Seeding for Data Growth
- The Search is On
- The Data Designers
- Demise of the Disk Era
- Dawn of a New Database
- Keeping CFOs Happy
- Case Studies in Data Management
- Hot Issues: Scalability and Data Integration