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Data Integration: Beyond the Data

Data Integration: Beyond the Data | Business intelligence, data warehousing and analytics editorial from DMReview

All of these applications have one thing in common and, in order to maintain all of these functions, one needs to find the common thread. All of these functions use some form of hierarchies to logically organize their data. Hierarchies may include the corporate charts of accounts, product catalogs, legal organization structures and customer groupings. The challenge for the support organizations then becomes how to keep these hierarchies synchronized across organizational and application boundaries. This ensures everyone has the required views of the data while maintaining an environment that provides access to one common set of data across all of the disparate systems and functions.