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Select the Right Data Integration Tools
Info-Tech Research Group, Jan 2011
You've got 99 problems; don't let data integration be one.
Your Challenge
- 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.
Our Advice
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.
1. Understand the value of data integration and options available
Develop a data integration strategy.
- Investigate Data Integration Tools
2. Evaluate data integration needs and tools
Pick the best enterprise data integration solution.
- Storyboard: Select the Right Data Integration Tools
3. Determine if the organization can benefit from tools
Decide to continue the selection process or DIY.
- Data Integration Tool Readiness Assessment
4. Quantify the costs of data integration
Make the business case for adopting DI tools.
- Data Integration Build vs. Buy TCO Calculator
5. Identify solutions that match enterprise needs
Develop a shortlist to speed solution selection.
- Data Integration Tool Vendor Shortlist
6. Identify vendors and solicit information
Conduct apples-to-apples comparisons of tools.
- Data Integration Solution RFP Template
7. Evaluate RFP responses to establish a shortlist
Move forward with only applicable DI solutions.
- Data Integration Solution Evaluation & RFP Response Tool
8. Test potential solutions
Identify the DI solutions that best meet enterprise needs.
- Data Integration Vendor Demonstration Script
*This is a bundle package containg multiple reports
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