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Information integration in the enterprise

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A guide to the tools and core technologies for merging information from disparate sources.

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          Aligning the information model across an enterprise is complex. Held across many applications across an enterprise, providing the information in a business-usable form is tough?and getting tougher due to the ease with which new systems can be created. Bernstein (of Microsoft) and Haas (of IBM) provide a sophisticated, yet very accessible, overview of the different techniques available to bring together information across the enterprise. The paper provides a practical, worked example that illustrates the challenges of information integration for a car dealership. This example really brought the paper to life and made the content accessible to a much wider audience. Many tools are considered in the paper, such as data warehouse loading, virtual data integration, message mapping, object-to-relational mappers, and document management. They also refer to core technologies such as Extensible Markup Language (XML), schema standards, data cleansing, schema mapping, information extraction, and dynamic Web technologies including mashups. Finally, the authors consider some future trends. The proliferation of new information repositories across organizations, emerging both monthly and daily, creates new challenges. The importance of understanding and achieving information integration for business use across the enterprise has never been more important. Online Computing Reviews Service

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            cover image Communications of the ACM
            Communications of the ACM  Volume 51, Issue 9
            Enterprise information integration: and other tools for merging data
            September 2008
            124 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/1378727
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