Proposed Tools for Data Integration

Abstract

Currently, in most of the companies, for performing certain business operations and primarily to make decisions, large volumes of data must be handled. This information is located in various data repositories with the result that it is decentralized with errors and often repeated in different sources. Because of this, the integration process becomes complex and it takes time to search data source directly, requiring to know the structure of each one. Very often the effective use of information has helped organizations to reduce costs, optimize processes, offer new products and improve service to its customers. However, many obstacles arise for strategic management of information, being probably the two most cited the dispersion and heterogeneity. This also makes it difficult the information integration process in a way that it can be accessed by external applications, which hampers its efficient use by organizations’ managers. This investigation aims to study the information integration levels and data integration techniques to perform an approach to the state of the art of the information integration. This research also does an analysis on the use of data integration tools in an enterprise environment, in order to arrive at concrete proposals. The objective pursued is that organizations that have similar problems to those described above, can discover the existing solutions and know how to use them depending on their needs.