Data integration provides many opportunities, including the opportunity to touch data as it moves from place to place, system to system, database to database.  In many cases, I would suggest you leverage this ability to check both data integrity and data quality. Most data integration products support data quality operations, including the ability to manipulate [...]

Data Quality seems to be caught in the middle of two extremes:  one that wants to ensure that all data is trust-worthy and reliable to be used by any and all business processes; and the other that wants to get away from complex solutions that take too long to implement and turns on the notion [...]

Those who recast their careers in the data integration space typically get there by accident.  They get tasked to create a data integration strategy within their organization, or they are tossed some data integration technology.  Once they run with it, another data integration subject matter expert is born. The path to develop your “mad data [...]

As more applications and services proliferate in the Cloud, it may well be that this overall Cloud tech arena will be instrumental in demonstrating the increasingly important role of data integration for meaningful and timely business processes and operations. Enterprises have already made a start with using Cloud services for on demand BI and analytics, [...]

Oracle has completed its acquisition of RightNow and RightNow is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle. The combination of Oracle’s leading marketing, sales, ecommerce, search and business intelligence software with RightNow’s leading service capabilities, helps companies power great customer experiences in a seamless, personalized way across all channels and customer touchpoints: including on the [...]