To ensure enterprise’s different needs, enterprise data integration acts to combine data from various resources. It also incorporates information sharing among different business applications. Nowadays, irrespective of the status, data integration of enterprise is a well-tested and practiced method by every company and business group in order to manage the company resources. These practices become very much important due to the presence of internet-based marketers and service providers.
The main benefits of enterprise data integration include quick data delivery and data sharing. Also, it involves:
- less time involvement in capturing data
- removal of data gathering and duplicate data entry
- cutting both time and capital required for data entry
- enhancement in customer satisfaction through better customer data integration and customer contact
- report printing and preparation
- improved product or service marketing
- real time data availability
- simplification of all procedures
- enhancement in sales force automation
Different techniques are also involved in such procedure and they are:
- Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
- Extract-Transform-Load (ETL)
- Enterprise Information Integration (EII)
- Master Data Management(MDI)
- Customer Data Integration (CDI)
When it is the matter of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), then it is considered as the data integration technology. The major processes engaged in this integration application are:
- Data propagation
- Data consolidation
- Data federation Read the rest of this entry »