Enterprise Integration Essentials

Practitioners have used a variety of techniques to integrate information silos in the past decades. In this section, three essential enterprise integration methods and corresponding technologies that have been widely applied to different integration projects are discussed. These include data-level integration, object-level integration, and application-level integration (Figure 8.1).

Figure 8.1. Three common types of integration.

Data-Level Integration

This type of integration aims at synchronizing data between different data sources among heterogeneous applications. The type of synchronized data can vary from ...

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