by Angela Guess
A recent article examines some of the many benefits associated with enterprise data integration. The article notes, “According to many studies, only about 10% of all enterprises have ever performed data integration, or actively support that integration. This is mostly because data integration takes a lot of time and money, and the short-term benefits are not quite as great as the long-term ones. However, once the integration is complete, this can help enterprises better survey data and decrease costs by need less people and making it easier for workers to go through the enterprise’s information.”
One benefit of integration is that it minimizes inconsistent data: ” If you collect image, text and video data from a multitude of users, you are sure to have inconsistent data. The files have different names, formats, specifications and other inconsistent factors. This can lead to a lot of problems, and it can become very difficult to go through this data and get exactly what you need. Even professional IT workers find this hard, meaning you cannot properly use the mass of data you have collected. With data integration, the format and specifications will become much less inconsistent. This enables people to find exactly what they are looking for when they need it, making it easier to use the data you gathered.”
