How Enterprise Information Integration Can Add Value to an Enterprise Reporting Architecture

Enterprise Information Integration (EII) software is a relatively new type of data integration application. In fact, most of the EII products have been released since the beginning of the new millennium. As a result, EII is not widely understood and its definition is still evolving. This purpose of this session is to describe the how EII software can fit in an enterprise reporting architecture, complimenting the other data integration elements, enterprise application integration (EAI) and extraction transformation and load (ETL). The session also aims to describe the benefits and typical applications of EII software in the different phases of the data warehouse lifecycle. The final section of the presentation describes the different factors that are typically considered in evaluating EII software.

• Enterprise Information Integration (EII) described
• Typical applications of EII
• How (EII) fits in enterprise reporting architecture
• Benefits of EII
• Evaluating EII software

Description of What Was Presented:

Enterprise Information Integration Software has been applied in number of different applications to compliment the enterprise data integration architecture. These applications include:

• Operational reporting
• Datawarehouse prototyping
• Portal or dashboard
• Drill down to real time data from standard reports
• Application migration
• Reporting with write back
• Data service in an SOA

Case examples and a methodology for evaluating EII software was also presented.