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 [...]

Whether the focus of an enterprise is on “big data” or not, analytics-driven companies are faced with processing many new data sources from inside and outside the firewall. These data sources may be complex structures — or the complexities may come from other aspects such as data trading protocols and message transports. Depending on the [...]

A couple weeks ago, about a hundred of Pervasive’s EMEA-based partners, customers and industry analysts gathered to discuss best practices and trends around data integration – including, cloud, Big Data, and data quality – at IntegrationWorld-Europe, which took place at the fabulously modern Cumberland Hotel in London. The event included an informative keynote from EMA Vice President Shawn Rogers who [...]

Those who promote data integration within the enterprise typically consider the use of this approach and technology as common sense.  After all, we want to link our business critical systems together so they can exchange and externalize data.  The benefits are obvious to us. However, for those who are running the budgets, the movement to [...]