Put Aside Some Time To Address Your Data Integration Issues

Thursday, 9 December 2010 | Jason Slater

In this article I’m going to get all evangelical about business data and more specifically the area of “data integration”. This is because the problems resulting in what I’m going to talk about don’t need to be there at all and yet they can quickly spiral out of control and become the most frustrating part of a computer system. Fortunately, there is help out there, but first…

How many times have you had to re-key information into secondary (or more) computer systems and thought “I could be doing something way more useful with my time”? I know I have, many times, and during the time I spent working in application support I was asked, on a number of occasions, if there were better ways of handling this sort of “will-sapping” task – and this answer is … yes, there are better ways.

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