“Data integration is the process of transferring data between different storage types and locations. This typically includes extraction, cleaning, loading into target data repository and verification.”
Anatella.com’s Data Integration page.
Whilst cross-referencing some data integration work that I was doing recently, I came across this great web-page with helpful icons and descriptions for the different types of data integration, as follows:
Before seeing this page I’d never even thought of classifying my data modelling / mapping exercises into different categories like this. The terminology does make more sense though, so this becomes my new terminology baseline for data integration.
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