Data Integration at Scale: From Relational Data Integration to Information Ecosystems

Our world is increasingly data-driven. The growth and value of data continue to exceed all predictions. Potential for business opportunity, economic growth, scientific discovery, and even national security lie hidden in the vast and growing data collections distributed across our Digital Universe. Harvesting the value of data requires finding, integrating, and analyzing data distributed across our Digital Universe. Failing to integrate data could be as mild as losing business through a lack of an integrated view of relevant business opportunities and threats or as serious as not anticipating the most serious terrorist attack on America through an inability to integrate relevant information distributed across 17 US intelligence agencies and 28 intelligence databases. Due to data being distributed across both entities and data repositories, data integration has become perhaps the most important data operation but certainly the most costly accounting for up to 40% of data processing budg...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: AINA
• Authors: Michael L. Brodie
• Keywords: AINA 2010, Business Data, Computer Networks, Data Integration, Data Processing