Information Integration: Inbound Integration Landscape
by Lavina Thakur
A selective adoption and orchestration of concepts and strategies as outlined in this paper will lead to a successful and value-driven Information Integration within an enterprise.

The Essential Roadmap to ETL Tool Migration
Migrating from one ETL tool to another presents significant challenges to an IT organization. Here is a checklist of ETL migration issues, challenges and questions that an organization should consider and answer before an ETL migration project begins.

Forrester Market Overview: Open Source ETL Tools
The latest trend in open source, community-driven software is the development of open source extract, transform, and load (ETL) data integration. Forrester takes a look at open source ETL vendors in this white paper.

Accelerating Data Integration Initiatives with Automated Data Discovery and Rapid Prototyping
This paper discusses the challenges these processes pose and describes Sypherlink’s productivity toolset for automating these tasks, accelerating project timelines, reducing project risk, and providing a faster time-to-value.

Joins and Aggregates Are Critical for Achieving Faster Data Retrieval in a Dimensional Data Warehouse
The process of preparing data for a dimensional data warehouse can be significantly reduced by the effective use of aggregation and join processing, performed by a tool optimized for fast sequential processing.

Speeding ETL and Processing in Data Warehouses
Today’s real-time business world demands the capability to process ever-increasing volumes of data at lightning speed. This white paper describes how DMExpress speeds long-running ETL processes so that applications finish faster saving you time and money.

Converging Text and Business Intelligence
by Clarabridge
This content mining platform avoids the pitfalls of previous approaches to unstructured analysis.

Implementing or Upgrading SAP? Don't Forget the Data
Addressing the challenges and risks of data migration.

Accelerate Application Data Migration with Informatica
Enterprises should look to proven migration solutions to ensure projects stay on budget and are successful.

Data Integration: Using ETL, EAI, and EII Tools to Create an Integrated Enterprise
by Colin White
A sequel to TDWI’s 2003 Data Integration Report, evaluates the recent evolution of data integration tools and methodologies, from both a data warehousing perspective and an enterprise-wide strategy standpoint.

The Right Information to the Right Person at the Right Time: Making it a Reality
A look at the unique way in which truly successful organizations view technology. With this best practice in mind, you will discover how you can achieve effective enterprise information delivery and data ETL at a small cost.

Third Generation ETL: Delivering the Best Performance
by Christopher Dupupet, Yves de Montcheuil
The process of selecting an ETL (extract, load, transfer) software solution is typically a complex one, during which many features need to be evaluated. This Sunopsis white paper presents the different generations of ETL tools and their architecture.

SQL is the DNA of Data Movement
by Joe Celko
We have been transferring data with tools for a long time now. This white Sunopsis paper discusses the history of data movement, how SQL can be used extremely efficiently for ETL processes. Actual performance data is also presented and discussed.

Is ETL Becoming Obsolete?
This Sunopsis white paper discusses the key issues with ETL tools today, and how an "E-LT" architecture combined with a "business-rules-driven" approach is better.

A Global Vision for Unified Integration
by Alain Dumas
This Sunopsis white paper discusses the key issues with integration architectures, and presents a global vision for unified integration - an architecture that provides fast and reliable integration with an optimized return on investment.

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