As far as data integration goes, once you have all the data centralized in a primary data source, it’s time to actually present that data to those that need it to make business decisions. And of course, we ideally want there to be minimal effort on our client’s programmers, to make the process easier.
For many organizations, it makes a huge difference to be able to see all your data in one location. But creating a custom solution to integrate data from multiple sources can be costly, despite the benefit. In fact, you may have experienced the pain of developing a proprietary system, which ended up costing a lot of man hours, and then may not have even worked as anticipated.
We talked last year about Oracle's solution for companies that need to roll out a new database and application infrastructure quickly, Oracle’s Database Appliance (ODA). It utilizes a number of technologies that make it a highly intelligent solution for large networks. We're committed to the ODA as a solution when it is a good fit, and are now offering the recently released ODA X5-2.
What do we do with all this data? It seems to be coming from everywhere and there’s more of it than ever before. Each day we’re making thousands of terabytes of new data. If only integrating it all was as easy as pushing a button! But it isn’t. Let's take a look at where this new data comes from and some of the problems it causes.
Over the last year we've published a number of great articles on our blog. We realize that you may not have been a reader the entire time so we'd like to share our top 5 articles from 2014.