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Introduction
Many enterprises are unfamiliar with the benefits of data integration tools.
Use this research to get a handle on how you can best integrate diverse
source data, and which software vendors will help you manage your data.
This Research Is Designed For:
CIOs and IT managers of medium to large
firms who have informal Data Integration (DI)
processes.
Enterprises with 2+ major systems (e.g. CRM,
ERP), a document repository, and increasing
Analytics needs.
All data integration architectures.
For information on
Application Integration Strategy,
refer to Info-Techs
Develop an Application Integration
Strategy
Process Integration
For information on
Business Process Management,
refer to Info-Techs
Develop a Business Process
Management Strategy
For information on
Application Integration Middleware,
refer to Info-Techs
Application Integration Middleware
Vendor Landscape
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Executive Summary
Understand Data Integration Trends & Considerations
DI tools are intended to free up developer resources by speeding up development, testing, and deployment.
Tools offer data federation, replication, and synchronization, not just ETL.
DI as a Service is ideal for the less mature who are ready to give up hand-coding.
Big Data and Analytics insights can provide valuable information to organizations. DI tools assist in managing new and
emerging types of data that are resulting from the data explosion.
Make the case to the CIO and the CFO and get budget approval for DI tools.
Your data integration tool selection strategy is a function of your information architecture maturity, data architecture and
developer staff size.
DI tools arent for everyone, review your required features and determine which solution is right for you.
Not all vendor offerings are equal. Choose the right one to suit your needs.
Platform standardization doesnt lock you in with that vendor for tools; looking elsewhere is often more cost-effective.
Choose your solution carefully as products evaluated offer a tremendous range of functionality and target different needs.
If gaining budget approval is difficult due to data quality issues; consider tooling with data profiling and cleansing
capabilities.
Prioritize integration, include people, process and technology. And align tool deployment with existing architecture.
Develop your timeline in preparation for integration.
Introduce training early and paint a compelling picture of process ease with tools to convince developers that change is
good.
Value Award:
SAP offers the most affordable data integration tool solution with a
high-performing product at the absolute lowest price.
Innovation Award:
Talends open-source, subscription offering provides a quality
product at a reasonable price. They offer a free, downloadable
version for smaller companies, and a subscription based product
for larger enterprises.
Info-Tech Insight
1. Overcoming a hand-coding monopoly:
Developer resistance and prevalent inhouse hand-coding continue to be data
integrations greatest competitor even
though there are a number of viable
vendor tool solutions in the marketplace.
2. Its the Era of Big Data and Business
Intelligence (BI):
The benefits of exploiting BI and Big Data
insights are sweeping though companies
of all sizes. Data integration software has
come under scrutiny recently as a solution
to the data mining challenge.
3. The move towards unified platforms:
Tools dont just integrate anymore. Many
vendors are now incorporating a mix of
technologies such as Extract Transform
Load (ETL), data quality, replication,
metadata, and Master Data Management
(MDM) data federation into their DI tools
as they move their solutions towards a
single unified platform.
For an explanation of how the Info-Tech Vendor Landscape is created, please see Vendor Evaluation Methodology in the appendices.
Features
Usability
Vendor
Affordability
Architecture
Overall
Viability
Strategy
Reach
Channel
SAS/DataFlux
IBM
Informatica
Microsoft
Oracle
Pervasive
SAP
Talend
Legend
=Exemplary
= Good
= Adequate
=Inadequate
= Poor
For an explanation of how the Info-Tech Harvey Balls are calculated please see Vendor Evaluation Methodology in the appendices.
Vendors that score high offer more bang-for-thebuck (e.g. features, usability, stability, etc.) than
the average vendor, while the inverse is true for
those that score lower.
Price-conscious enterprises may wish to give the
Value Score more consideration than those who
are more focused on specific vendor/product
attributes.
For an explanation of how the Info-Tech Value Index is calculated, please see Value Index Ranking Methodology in the appendices.
For an explanation of how normalized pricing is determined, please see Product Pricing Scenario & Methodology in the appendices.
Feature
Description
Batch Integration
Data
Migration/Conversion
(ETL)
Exception Reporting
and Notification
Metadata Management
Administrative
Console
If Table Stakes are all you need from your Data Integration Tool, the only true differentiator for the
organization is price. Otherwise, dig deeper to find the best price to value for your needs.
Advanced Features
Feature
Data
Cleaning/Cleansing/
Quality
Recovery of
Integration after
Failure
Performance
Monitoring
Middleware
Compatibility
Data
Semantics/Context
Synchronization and
Data Replication
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Data Quality
Recovery
after Failure
Perf.
Monitoring
Middleware
Compatible
Data
Semantics
Synchronize
Replicate
SAS/DataFlux
IBM
Informatica
Microsoft
Oracle
Pervasive
SAP
Talend
Legend
= Feature unsatisfactory
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Champion
Product:
Employees:
Headquarters:
Website:
Founded:
Presence:
Informatica PowerCenter
2,550+
Redwood City, CA
informatica.com
1993
NASDAQ: INFA
FY11 Revenue: $783.3M
Strengths
Newest release focuses on Big Data, MDM, data quality and
self-service tools. Features include support to pull in data from
social network feeds such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn,
and a universal connector to the Hadoop file system.
Cloud offering provides the ability to move integration
workflows from Cloud to on-premise with no redevelopment
required.
Challenges
$1
$1M+
Info-Tech Recommends:
The Informatica platform is a good fit for enterprises looking for an efficient, reliable, and easy to
manage data integration solution.
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Champion
Product:
Employees:
Headquarters:
Website:
Founded:
Presence:
Strengths
SaaS offering through Amazon EC2.
Metadata driven platform provides information in real-time, on
demand, or in batch to the data warehouse for immediate
action regardless of location.
Advanced message handling supporting complex XML.
BI tools provide powerful data analysis for competitive insights
and advantage.
Challenges
$1
$1M+
Info-Tech Recommends:
InfoSphere Information Sever offers great integration functionality and impressive extensibility into
other data domains.
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Champion
Product:
Employees:
Headquarters:
Website:
Founded:
Presence:
BusinessObjects Data
Services
54,000
Walldorf, Germany
sap.com
1972
NYSE, TecDAX: SAP
FY10 Revenue: $16.8B
Strengths
Intuitive, codeless, drag-and-drop IDE rapidly develops
integration projects with the option to include data quality.
Transfer large quantities of data using parallelism, caching,
and grid computing approaches.
Trending and advanced text data processing analysis features.
Powerful data quality capabilities and support for unstructured
data.
Challenges
$1
$1M+
Info-Tech Recommends:
BusinessObjects Data Integrator is an accessible, functional solution geared towards the SMB
market.
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Innovator
Product:
Employees:
Headquarters:
Website:
Founded:
Presence:
Data Integrator
250
Austin, TX
pervasive.com
1996
NASDAQ: PVSW
FY10 Revenue: $47.2M
Strengths
Offers intranet SaaS and a broad offering of connectors.
Highly configurable. Design and deploy on-premises or in the
cloud using reusable metadata stored in an open, XML-based
design repository.
IDE interfaces are feature-rich and easy to use and administer.
Galaxy exchange marketplace for previously custom only
integration products.
Challenges
$1
$1M+
Info-Tech Recommends:
Pervasives product is a strong offering. While the suite is not as hearty as other offerings, Galaxy and
Data Integrators add-on library are strong selling points for SMBs.
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Innovator
Product:
Employees:
Headquarters:
Website:
Founded:
Presence:
Integration Solutions
400
Los Altos, CA & Suresnes,
France
talend.com
2005
Privately held company
Strengths
Talend Cloud supports all forms of cloud-based computing.
A real-time data integration platform that supports multi-user
development and employs a unified data system for seamless
integration.
Advanced event-based scheduling, additional execution
features, error recovery management, and a full set of
connectivity adapters.
Challenges
$1
$1M+
Doesnt have the bells & whistles of the larger offerings, but is
a viable option for smaller companies with repeatable DI tasks
who are constrained by budget.
Graphical User Interface is written in developer-speak so
there is a slight learning curve for less experienced users.
No hosted offering, but a full set of connectors is included.
Info-Tech Recommends:
Talend is an open-source, scalable product that can handle data integration requirements in
organizations of all sizes.
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Market Pillar
Product:
Employees:
Headquarters:
Website:
Founded:
Presence:
Data Integrator
108,000
Redwood Shores, CA
oracle.com
1977
NASDAQ: ORCL
FY10 Revenue: $2.99B
Strengths
Advanced debugging, diagnoses, and error reporting.
Open, integrated ETL architecture delivers high-performance
data movement and transformation across complex systems.
Seamlessly integrates within an SOA infrastructure.
Enhanced connectivity to all third-party databases, data
warehouses and applications.
IDE contains mapping wizards and integrates with JDeveloper.
Challenges
$1
$1M+
Info-Tech Recommends:
Oracle Data Integrator offers a ton of functionality for Oracle-aligned organizations. The platform is
best suited to those with complex data integration requirements.
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Market Pillar
Product:
Employees:
Headquarters:
Website:
Founded:
Presence:
Strengths
Very strong BI functionality, particularly for populating Data
Warehouses and Data Marts.
High performance, customizable integration functionality that
scales according to need.
Includes a rich set of built-in tasks and transformations; works
as a stand-alone or in combination with other packages to
address complex integration requests.
Challenges
$1
$1M+
Info-Tech Recommends:
For SQL Server owners, SSIS is free, making it the most viable option, but be aware that life may not
be simpler for your hand-coders.
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Emerging Player
Product:
Employees:
Headquarters:
Website:
Founded:
Presence:
Strengths
Unique platform that combines DataFlux and SAS
technologies; the framework bridges the gap between data
quality, profiling, monitoring, and ETL tools from a centralized
location.
Data Management Studio provides extensive functionality for
developing rules and profiles that are reusable in other
projects; interface appeals to IT and business users.
Challenges
$1
$1M+
Info-Tech Recommends:
An excellent choice for organizations that are seeking broad data management functionality.
However, if data integration is your only focus, you may want to look elsewhere.
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2
3
4
Exemplary Performers
Development
Environment
Vendor
Comprehensiveness
Platform Independence
Viable Performers
Adequate Performers
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1
2
3
4
Exemplary Performers
Development
Environment
Vendor
Comprehensiveness
Platform Independence
Viable Performers
Adequate Performers
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Exemplary Performers
Development
Environment
2
3
4
Vendor
Comprehensiveness
Platform Independence
Viable Performers
Adequate Performers
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50
40
Developer effectiveness
Development estimates
Documentation quality
Report accuracy
Data quality
30
20
10
0
Data and report accuracy are factors that can be improved early in the lifecycle of the tool, whereas code reuse
and development time will improve over time.
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Sections:
Understand Data Integration
Trends and Considerations
Develop a DI Tool Selection
Strategy
Evaluate DI Vendors
Develop Your DI Implementation
Strategy
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Rework, quality
problems, manual keying,
and endless rewriting are
needless costs.
Hand-coding is unreliable
and hard to manage
across data architecture
changes.
P2P Interfaces
Tools can ensure your
changes dont lead to
data mismatches.
Tooling Interfaces
200
180
# of Integration Scenarios
Avoid
Exponential
Chaos!
160
140
120
100
P2P=n(n-1)/2
80
Tooling=n*2
60
40
20
0
2
10
12
14
16
18
20
n # of Applications
For an efficient IT shop, the tool is much more versatile and easier to maintain.
- Manager of Enterprise Services, Entertainment
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The Solution
Data Integration Tools integrate and consolidate all data
types from internal and external sources into target
destinations such as databases, data-marts, datawarehouses, and files.
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Costs Reduced
Hand-coded
Vendor Solution
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Minimized Hand-Coding
Quality of Documentation
Validity of Development Estimates
Code reusability
Development Process Consistency
0
10
20
30
40
50
% of increased success due to tool usage
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Costs
Customer Experience
Marketing
Operations
Hardware costs
Customer churn
Software costs
Reactive decisions
Poor positioning
Slow time-to-market
Operational costs
Poor marketing
Poor investment
Rigid
Opportunity costs
Strategy
Labor-intensive
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Organizations who adopt SaaS solutions without a careful data management and integration strategy will
result in degraded Data Quality. DI as a Service offers the fast path to a solution.
29
While the size of Big Data is debatable, one thing is for certain; Big Data is only important to an organization
if it can be utilized to provide results and offer legitimate insights for future direction. Big Data only becomes
relevant when an organization understands what to do with it.
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In order to take advantage of the insights hidden within Big Data, IT will create a management architecture
that guarantees effortless data flow between systems. Data integration, middleware and business
process flow technologies will become critical platforms to support this evolution.
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High
BI success is
directly related to
the quality of the
underlying data
BI Success
Low
Low
High
In todays competitive business environment, BI and Analytics are expected to drive business results in
areas where the bottom line can easily be measured.
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60
% of Respondents
50
40
30
20
10
0
Gaining
Budget
Approval
Selecting
Vendor
Platform
Tools aren't
Robust
Enough
Developer
Resistance
Organizations with poor data quality have difficulty getting budget approval. Integrating bad data results in more
bad data, and the cost of cleaning up data before attempting to integrate it is prohibitive. DI tools can help
organizations improve their data quality and therefore should be a worthwhile investment where this is an issue.
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Often at six-figure salaries, developers can cost you more than many tools on the market today.
*Talend offers a free open-source data integration tool, though Info-Tech does not recommend that version
for enterprise use.
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Situation
Enterprise applications,
including Salesforce.com are
integrated through hand-coding,
resulting in high development
times and effort.
Need an FTE to run every
integration batch manually.
Action
Brought in consultants to
document the business case for
integration tools.
Results
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A mid-sized manufacturer of
office furnishings had unreliable
analytics after their CRM system
was migrated to a cloud-based
solution.
Results: Improved BI
After a relatively small
development effort, the IT
department produced a reliable
analytics data source for
marketing and product
development users.
People throughout the
organization did not have to
change their silo mentality. The
CRM and Supply Chain
Management systems stayed
as-is, optimized for their users
rather than for data quality.
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Operational Success
Development Time
MDM Structure
Code Reusability
Process Predictability
Process Efficiency
Data Accuracy
Versatility
Cost Effectiveness
Process Satisfaction
Solution Satisfaction
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Sections:
Understand Data Integration
Trends and Considerations
Develop a DI Tool Selection
Strategy
Evaluate DI Vendors
Develop Your DI Implementation
Strategy
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Youve heard the pitch, now decide if tools are right for you
Data Integration Tools arent for everyone, and within the space there are
many options for many issues. Determine which, if any, are right for you.
Consideration
Build
Buy
Initial Investment
Lower
Higher
Operations Cost
Higher
Lower
Support &
Maintenance
In-house IT
Vendor-managed
Requires high
maturity
Less required
Data Cleansing
Limited
Often included
Limited
Often included
Source-to-Target
Connections
Single/Single
only
Multiple/Multiple,
Multiple/Single,
Single/Multiple
IT effort
Vendor-managed
Complex
Transformations
Limited,
taxing
Comprehensive,
supports user code
One-Time Integrations
Ideal
Overkill
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To
When
Data Modeler
Selection Tips
Selection Tips
Selection Tips
Purchasing a full suite may be
more costly in the short term but
the level of support and
functionality is higher than
with cheap and easy tools.
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So you can
Functionality
Number of
Developers
Information
Architecture
Maturity
Data Architecture
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Next Steps
Situation
Nothing
Architecture
Informal
Maturity
Lite
Enterprise
No MDM processes or
tools are in place. Data
integrations are fully
point-to-point.
Start developing an
understanding of your
data integration needs
before jumping into
tools.
Pick an architecture
based on your
processing load
bottleneck and select
a tool to support it.
Data Integration is necessary for providing consolidated and accurate data for decision making. Without
integration tools, MDM and BI initiatives will fail.
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Use your developer team size to pick the licensing model thats
right for you
Lower numbers of developers may be less costly to license by seat than a
server/processor based licensing model
1. Pick the Right License
Per Developer Licensing:
Tools designed for smaller shops typically use per
developer licensing. All else equal, these are
typically most cost effective for shops with four or
less integration developers.
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Not all vendors are created equal; pick the right one for your
circumstances
70
60
% of Respondents
While tool satisfaction is uniformly above handcoding, it ranges dramatically across stack vendors.
50
40
30
20
10
0
Gaining Budget
Approval
Selecting
Vendor
Platform
Tools aren't
Robust Enough
Developer
Resistance
I want
Info-Tech Recommends
Informatica Cloud
Talend
Microsoft SSIS
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Sections:
Understand Data Integration
Trends and Considerations
Develop a DI Tool Selection
Strategy
Evaluate DI Vendors
Develop Your DI Implementation
Strategy
Appendices
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Market Overview
How it got here
Data integration continues to be an evolving practice even
though it came into existence more than 30 years ago, when
computing became distributed. The objective of data
integration is to collect data from numerous, different sources,
merge it, and display it to the user in such a way that it
appears to be a unified whole.
The need for data integration arose from mergers,
acquisitions, and organizations maintaining numerous
databases and applications that housed different data
aspects necessary to business operations. For many years,
organizations tried to consolidate their data into one system
by relying on developers to hand-code scripts to connect the
various sources, but that practice often resulted in quality
issues, lengthy development times, and unreliability one
error in a line of code can bring an entire system down.
Data integration isn't just a component of an IT project
anymore. It has become a core practice that requires
consideration from the start if an organization is going to
make the most use of their data.
As the market evolves, capabilities that were once cutting-edge become default, and new functionality
becomes differentiating. Batch integration has become a Table Stakes capability and should no longer be
used to differentiate solutions. Instead, focus on data quality and real-time integration to get the best fit for
your requirements.
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SAS/DataFlux: The platform is a unified design, development and execution DI solution that enables data
quality, integration and master data management (MDM) from a single interface.
IBM: InfoSphere Information Server is a comprehensive platform that provides seamless data integration to
support initiatives across MDM, data warehousing, Big Data and migration projects.
Informatica: An inclusive, unified, open software platform to access, integrate, and manage any type of data on
any processing platform.
Microsoft: SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) platform features a flexible data warehousing tool that aids
in data integration and workflow applications.
Oracle: Data Integrator is a broad integration platform that addresses all data integration requirements,
including seamless batch and real-time integration and data warehousing.
Pervasive: Data Integrator is a highly configurable integration platform that performs extraction,
transformation and flow of nearly any kind of data between sources throughout the organization.
SAP: BusinessObjects allows the organization to profile, extract, transform, and move data in real time and at
any interval anywhere across the enterprise.
Talend: Provides open source, subscription based data integration solutions designed for business intelligence
and data migration and synchronization.
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Features
Features
Affordability
Usability
Architecture
Architecture
30%
30%
20%
Affordability
Product
50%
Vendor Evaluation
50%
Viability
Strategy
Reach
Channel
20%
Usability
Vendor
Viability
Channel
25%
30%
15%
30%
Strategy
Reach
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Informatica
IBM
Talend
Pervasive
SAP
Oracle
SAS/DataFlux
Microsoft
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An RFP implies stable requirements and an intent to buy use this tool to help select a supplier, not to
develop a shortlist.
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To get the most value out of the RFP process, use the
Data Integration Tools RFP Scoring Tool
A standard and transparent process for scoring individual vendor RFP
responses will help ensure that internal team biases are minimized.
Use Info-Techs
DI Tools RFP Scoring Tool to:
The Info-Tech Data Integration Solution
Evaluation & RFP Response Tool comes
pre-built with important scoring criteria for
vendor RFP responses.
This tool includes modifiable criteria across
the following categories:
Operational Requirements
(debugging, exception reporting)
Support
Adjust the individual category weightings to
customize this tool to business priorities.
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Software Installation
Initial Configuration
Diagnose/Repair/Uninstall
Adjust the individual category weightings to
customize this tool to business priorities.
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Sections:
Understand Data Integration
Trends and Considerations
Develop a DI Tool Selection
Strategy
Evaluate DI Vendors
Develop Your DI
Implementation Strategy
Appendices
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Info-Tech Insight
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Next Steps
Situation
011001
010010
100010
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Point-to-Point
Tightly coupled
connections between
software applications.
Federated
The data store does not
actually store any data
only rules to direct and
coordinate data between
systems.
Distributed
Uses agents positioned
between the system and
data store to reduce
system processing load.
Most DI Tools support all three structures. If you are looking to upgrade to
one of the structures, tools will enable and simplify this process. The decision to
pick a hub, rules engine, or intermediaries will depend on where in your system
you would like to process load.
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Not all DI projects are created equal, but they share common
attributes that may drive different solutions
Real-time or
Batch?
Though real-time and online integration is supplanting batch-oriented, this is not always
appropriate and can significantly increase costs and bog down performance. Unless upto-date real-time data will drive business value, batch integration remains entirely
appropriate.
How do I address
huge data flow?
More advanced tools may provide parallel processing and workload balancing. Both
are useful for enterprises with large data volumes and overcome performance
issues stemming from bottlenecks in peak frequency times.
Dont overlook data quality; it is key to data integration success, as integrating bad
data is ineffective. Many offerings include this functionality directly or through a third
party extension; in most cases the difference is negligible. Keep in mind the ratio of costto-effectiveness, as 100% accuracy is rarely worth the investment.
Whats Impact
Analysis?
When do I
Debug?
Impact analysis (i.e. tracing the impact of source data changes on reports or analysis)
requires metadata integration and data lineage and allows for development of what-if
scenarios. This functionality is recommended for enterprises with complex
integration architectures. (e.g. a target field is derived from multiple source fields).
Debugging environments, often included, are useful for error-checking when
developing integrations, especially if staffing less experienced developers.
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Operate
Prioritize integrations.
Start automating crucial integrations that are deemed
mission critical to the business. If you are using legacy
systems, start there, as these integrations are in most
urgent need of replacing.
Updating other lower priority integration points should be
undertaken as a subsequent phase.
1.
Implement
Quality Control
2.
Create
Connections
3.
Automate
Integrations
4.
Test
Procedures
5.
Execute
Plan accordingly: More complex integrations will have a lower reduction in development time.
Simple
With Tools: 8 days 80% reduction
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1.
2.
Overcoming negative SaaS perceptions is still an issue. When surveyed, 61% of Info-Tech respondents
believed SaaS to be more difficult to integrate than on-premise applications.
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Research has shown that developer resistance is fading. Developers are finding that the tooling improves
their development processes, estimates, and outcomes. It is also freeing them up for more innovative
activities.
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Summary
At some point data integration tools become necessary for business growth.
They improve overall operations, marketing, and customer experience.
Tools now provide broader functionality beyond traditional ETL and measurably improve efficiency and operational
success.
DI as a Service (DIaaS) offerings are a viable option for organizations that are beginning to look at data integration and
have lighter integration needs.
Big Data, and how to manage it, has become a key IT strategy; however, organizations first need to determine if they
actually have a Big Data problem, or simply a classic data problem.
The overall value of BI is being recognized, but many solutions are still constrained by data quality issues. IT departments
need to utilize DI tools to ensure continual data quality as BI increases its role in decision making.
If a tool re-directs at least one developer from maintenance to innovation, it has probably paid for itself.
Organizations with poor data quality have difficulty getting budget approval. Make the case with the CIO and CFO that
data is an organizations best investment, and implementing DI tools will provide significant ROI.
Developing a data integration tool selection strategy is a function of your information architecture maturity, data
architecture, features needed, and developer staff size.
Tool effectiveness is highly vendor-dependent as many tools dont actually reduce necessary hand-coding.
Prioritize integration, include people, process and technology. And align tool deployment with existing architecture.
Develop your timeline in preparation for integration, and automate as much as possible.
Get user and stakeholder buy-in by scoping the project thoroughly and providing early training.
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Appendices
Whats in this Section:
Glossary
Vendor Landscape methodology
DI tools survey demographics
Sections:
Understand Data Integration
Trends and Considerations
Develop a DI Tool Selection
Strategy
Evaluate DI Vendors
Develop Your DI Implementation
Strategy
Appendices
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Glossary
Business Intelligence (BI)
Processes and applications that provide a holistic view of business operations that are
used to support decision making.
Business Process
Management (BPM)
Data Agility
The ability of a piece or group of data to be easily manipulated and adapted as needed
Data Architecture
The design of data, systems and tools that support an organization or business
function.
Enterprise Application
Integration (EAI)
Enterprise Information
Integration (EII)
Creating a single interface to view data from more than one source.
The process of extracting data from an outside source, transforming it to meet needs
and loading it into the end target.
Legacy System
Old hardware or software that is still used and contain valuable data.
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
Service-Oriented Architecture
(SOA)
The process of building scalable distributed systems that treat all software
components as services.
Data Modeling
The process of defining and analyzing enterprise data to better manage data and
improve business processes.
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Includes development and production, licensing and annual maintenance for 3 years. In addition, any additional benefits that may be
associated with the integration scenario i.e. ancillary licensing and/or training and professional services.
Company information:
10,000 employees , 15 locations, 120 IT staff that includes 20 internal developers dedicated to development/integration
Infrastructure information:
6 dual processor mission critical application servers located in a central data center and 2 quad processor database servers 1
runs SQL, the other runs Oracle.
Separate backup site that includes redundancy for all mission critical solutions.
Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance
Salesforce.com licensed for 3000 users within the company
Other applications in use include: an ERP system, an HR system, a Finance system, Exchange , 5 additional internally
developed software solutions (including the company website, which is hosted internally).
All 10,000 employees have access to certain components of each of the systems.
Info-Tech Research Group
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IT Employees
67
Industry
68
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69
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71
IT Employees
72