This article was originally published on April 10, 2012 in TDWI’s BI This Week. Reprinted with permission of 1105 Media, Inc.
A mainstream billion-dollar industry for nearly two decades, data integration (DI) is one of the core competencies and necessities of business intelligence (BI) programs and typically accounts for 60 to 70 percent of a BI budget. However, DI has historically lacked a management discipline of design and princip