A Perspective on the Benefits of Data Virtualization Technology

Providing a unified enterprise-wide data platform that feeds into consumer applications and meets the integration, analysis and reporting users' requirements is a wish that often involves significant time and resource consumption. As an alternative to developing a data warehouse for physical in...

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Published in:Informatica economica 2011-10, Vol.15 (4), p.110-118
Main Authors: Bologa, Ana-Ramona, Bologa, Razvan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Advantages
Business intelligence software
Data collection
Data models
Data service
Data virtualization
Data warehouses
Information-as-a-service
Integration middleware
Metadata
Middleware
Queries
Software services
Studies
Virtualization
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Summary:Providing a unified enterprise-wide data platform that feeds into consumer applications and meets the integration, analysis and reporting users' requirements is a wish that often involves significant time and resource consumption. As an alternative to developing a data warehouse for physical integration of enterprise data, the article presents data virtualization technology. There are presented its main strengths, weaknesses and ways of combining it with classical data integration technologies. Current trends in data virtualization market reveal the great potential of growth of these solutions, which appear to have found a stable place in the portfolio of data integration tools in companies. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:1453-1305
1842-8088