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Make the business case for enterprise information integration


Garry Kranz, Contributor
08.16.2006
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Enterprise information integration, or EII, can enable IT organizations to better collect, analyze and reuse various data than other methods such as enterprise application integration (EAI) or extraction, transforming and loading (otherwise known as ETL). However, presenting the business case for EII to your CEO is not always an easy task.

"The EII approach generally relies on the implementation of an abstracted data layer that provides flexibility and efficiency to the data integration process, without changing the data sources. Queries to the multiple data sources are used to deliver the information on demand to the application callin


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g for the data," said Marcia A. Kaufman, a partner at research firm Hurwitz & Associates in Waltham, Mass.

The demand for enterprise information integration software and related services is steadily rising, with worldwide revenue estimated to hit an all-time high of $1 billion by 2007, according to Lexington, Mass.-based consultancy Infostructure Associates.

Experts advise CIOs to address the following four key points when trying to persuade CEOs of the value of an enterprise information integration rollout:

Garry Kranz is a freelance business and technology writer in Richmond, Va. He can be reached at gkranz@ureach.com.

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