BigDataFr recommends: Data Integration Tools – Market Study

[…] This post is a brief review of leading Data Integration tools in the market. Heavily referencing from the Gartner 2016 report and peer reviews from my circle

The Market

The data integration tool market was worth approximately $2.8 billion at the end of 2015, an increase of 10.5% from the end of 2014 [2016 Gartner Report – Data Integration Tools].

Key data integration responsibilities-

1.Data acquisition for business intelligence (BI), analytics and data warehousing— extracting data from operational systems, transforming and merging that data, and delivering it to integrated data structures for analytics purposes.
2.Data migrations/conversions — although, traditionally addressed most often via the custom coding of conversion programs, data integration tools are increasingly addressing the data movement and transformation challenges.
3.Data consistency between operational applications — Data integration tools provide the ability to ensure database-level consistency across applications. […]

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By Kashif Saiyed
Source: datasciencecentral.com