Operational Data Integration: The Growing Practice of ETL Outside of Data Warehousing

TDWI Research shows that data integration usage – especially in the form of ETL – is growing overall, but growing fastest outside of data warehousing. This is because ETL tools and techniques are increasingly applied to operational data integration projects within and beyond the enterprise, like database and application consolidations, migrations, upgrades, synchronizations, and B2B data exchange. The number of these technical projects is driven up by business events, like mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, and sharing data with partners.