Vendor Landscape Plus: Data Integration Tools
Integration is the name of the game.
- Current integrations are a series of hand-coded, point-to-point integrations with little consistency on the tool or approach used.
- Multiple tools and approaches are costly in terms of licensing, skill development, maintenance, and longer project time lines, but it's difficult to justify the cost of a data integration tool.
- This solution set will help quantify the cost of internal development, costs of building vs. buying data integration tools, and help select the right tool.
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Critical Insight
- At some point data integration tools become required for business growth. They improve operations, marketing, and customer experience.
- Data integration tools typically reduce development times by 60-75%and improve efficiency and operational success. If a tool can take one developer off your payroll, it has probably paid for itself.
- Choose your solution very carefully as products evaluated offer a tremendous range of functionality and target vastly different needs. Tool effectiveness is highly vendor-dependent as many tools don’t actually reduce necessary hand-coding.
- Platform standardization doesn’t lock you in with that vendor for tools; looking elsewhere is often more cost-effective.
- Prioritize integration; start with the mission critical, especially legacy systems.
Impact and Result
- Data integration tools decimate workloads; thirty-day processes can be done in twenty minutes!
- On completion of the work outlined in this solution set, you will be able to make a rational and informed vendor selection for a data integration solution, and dramatically improve your integration process.
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