Business Objects Data Integrator - Overview
The key to the success of this product is the way it achieves the integration of systems. One key feature being that the Metadata integration methodology used allows you to see the impact of changes in the source data make to the overall data picture and then be able to track back to the actual source concerned.
Three main points are:-
- The ability to provide trustworthy information
- The fact that the system maximises developer productivity
- That the system delivers extreme ETL scalability
Trustworthy Information
The system meets all compliance regulations for accurate and auditable information. Providing an integrated view of your data, which using BusinessObjects Metadata Manager ensures improved data quality, shows the impact that changes to the source data makes and allows the tracing of data back to its source.
Maximising Developer Productivity
Another Business Objects application, Composer, provides an environment for designing and managing your ETL processes. This tool provides a development area that allows you to build, test, debug and deploy all your data integration jobs, therefore giving your development team the ability to do more in shorter time frames.
Delivering Extreme ETL Scalability
No matter what the size of your organisation, Data Integrator scales to meet the demands, supporting parallel processing, distributed processing, real-time data movement as well as being able to cope with a large range of data sources and target types.
Balanced Scorecards for True Performance Management
Business Objects has a tool for the job; Performance Manager. Performance Manager boosts the ability of organisations to communicate strategy, show and manage performance, as well as providing all with the information needed in order that they can make decisions with confidence.
The use of Scorecards allows for the setting of goals and the tracking of achievements towards those goals and as well as improving collaboration with others, scorecards also provide recommended actions that will improve any organisations performance.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is the difference between data and information?
A: Data can mean a lot of things to people but we are all guilty of walking into meetings with spreadsheets of data that is really just numbers and doesn’t mean that much to people that haven’t written them. What we are looking at with information, is making it available in a format that is instantly readable and relevant to the individual person that is looking at that information. And the other side of it is that it might not be just numbers or numerical figures, it may be that information around the business; documents knowledge, and other information that we may want to look at and that’s business intelligence.
What is data Integration
Q: Is data integration the same as data warehousing?
A: Data integration is a separate area but often goes hand in hand with data warehousing. Data integration is about taking the data from different areas of your business and "pulling them together" to put them into a data warehouse, or it might be doing something a little more sophisticated, such as integrating your back end system so that your customer database talks to your sales database.
Q: What is enterprise information management.
A: Enterprise information management is another vendor derived term that’s been brought into the market to try and describe challenges that businesses are facing. Enterprise information management is about recognising there are many organisations that are struggling to try and manage their data. Whether there are large volumes of data or not they may have data in different areas or different types of data. EIM tries to address the different methods that can be used to control and manage and gain a business incite from that data. |
