Getting it All in One Place: Data Integration Strategies
Panel Presentation at the NTEN Regional Conference in Washington, DC on October 11, 2005 by:
- Gary Bond, Director, Information Services, Human Rights First (HRF)
- Yasmina Mudarres, Assistant Director, Field Operations, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA)
- Usha Venkatachallam, Solutions Architect, Beaconfire Consulting
Organizations solve data related problems in myriad ways. This session outlined three data integration approaches that were successful:
- Use custom scripts to get your online system to send data across to many offline systems
- Use web services to get two systems to integrate and exchange data between each other
- Use automated bulk import/export utilities to get all online and offline systems to send data to a single data warehouse
Panelists talked about how to plan and implement data integration and also shared best practices and lessons learned.
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