Overheard in the tech blogosphere » data integration http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard A Whatis.com blog Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:32:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Overheard – data federation technology http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/overheard-data-federation-technology/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/overheard-data-federation-technology/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:45:49 +0000 Margaret Rouse http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/?p=3071 Federation technology has two real benefits, a business benefit and a technical one.  It increases visibility into lines of business, and it can help reduce costs and complexity by reducing the need for an extra, expensive database server.  It also saves users time by removing the need to query multiple data sources manually.

Wendy Tam, as quoted in Data federation technology complements fragmented data warehouses

Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is data federation technology.

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