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Beauty and the Beast: The Theory and Practice of Information Integration

Source: IBM
Date: January 2008
Type: White Paper
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Overview: Information integration is becoming a critical problem for businesses and individuals alike. Data volumes are sky-rocketing, and new sources and types of information are proliferating. This paper published by IBM briefly reviews some of the key research accomplishments in information integration (theory and systems), then describes the current state-of-the-art in commercial practice, and the challenges (still) faced by CIOs and application developers. One critical challenge is choosing the right combination of tools and technologies to do the integration. Although each has been studied separately, the paper lacks a unified (and certainly, a unifying) understanding of these various approaches to integration.


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