http://data-integration-blog.apatar.com Data Integration and ETL Blog Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:56:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The IT and business alignment is a widely discussed challenge of data integration. The major data integration problem adds up to this: define customer. Data from different functional areas doesn’t join up: sales orders are associated with the newly contracted customers, but the marketing campaign data is associated with prospects. Is ... http://data-integration-blog.apatar.com/data-integration-challenges-define-your-customer.html iPaaS (integration platform-as-a-service) is a development platform for building integration applications. It provides a set of capabilities for data integration and application integration in the Cloud and on-premises. There are very few vendors offering iPaaS solutions at the moment. Although Gartner recognizes and uses the term, it still sounds confusing to ... http://data-integration-blog.apatar.com/ipaas-a-new-trend-in-data-integration.html Salesforce.com and Intuit have signed a partnership agreement to provide Salesforce integration with QuickBooks to Intuit's four million customers. The companies promise to finish developing the integrated solution in summer. The solution is going to make CRM processes more convenient and transparent by displaying customer data along with financial information. Salesforce ... http://data-integration-blog.apatar.com/salesforce-integration-with-quickbooks-out-of-the-box-solution-on-its-way.html Spring is a good time to get rid of the old stuff and check out something new. This might as well be the time to upgrade your data integration tools. How can you learn if your data integration solution is outdated and should be replaced by something more productive? May ... http://data-integration-blog.apatar.com/is-your-data-integration-technology-outdated.html One of the great values data integration provides is a possibility to gain a deeper insight into one’s customers. It is not surprising that data integration with CRM (customer relations management) systems is one of the main directions in the industry development. As more companies choose managing customers electronically, it ... http://data-integration-blog.apatar.com/the-key-data-integration-strategies-for-successful-crm.html Data governance initiatives in an organization are intended to cover data quality, data management, and data policy issues. These activities are carried out by data stewards and a team that develops and implements business rules for administrating the use of data. The focus on data governance is essential when the company ... http://data-integration-blog.apatar.com/how-can-data-governance-serve-data-integration-projects.html The terms data conversion and data migration are still sometimes used interchangeably on the internet. However, they do mean different things. Data conversion is the transformation of data from one format to another. It implies extracting data from the source, transforming it and loading the data to the target system ... http://data-integration-blog.apatar.com/what-is-the-difference-between-data-conversion-and-data-migration.html A survey by AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) states that although SharePoint is being rapidly adopted by organizations, at least half of the companies that are implementing the platform don't have business use in mind. This might be a reason we don’t see millions of companies shifting their data ... http://data-integration-blog.apatar.com/data-integration-in-sharepoint-2010.html The data integration discipline has undergone an impressive expansion over the last decade. Up-to-date data integration practices influence various business processes across organizations. I have talked a lot about the value of data integration for decision-making, sales, and customer service. What else can data integration add to the way the ... http://data-integration-blog.apatar.com/the-additional-value-of-data-integration.html Many data management professionals agree that the increasing volume and complexity of data require a new approach to data integration with its traditional tools and methods. Organizations today are expanding their usage of information-as-a-service (also called data services) to support new business requirements, such as real-time data integration, creating data ... http://data-integration-blog.apatar.com/data-services-in-data-integration.html