Managing Data in Motion

Introduction

What this book is about and why it’s necessary

Most organizations of middle to large size have hundreds or, more probably, thousands of applications, each with its own various databases and other data stores. Whether the data stores are from traditional technologies and database management systems, emerging technologies, or document management systems, it is critical to the usefulness of these applications to the organization that they share information between them. Developing and managing solutions for moving data between applications becomes an overwhelmingly complex problem unless addressed using a coordinated approach across an organization. This book describes a reasonable approach and architecture that enables managing the ...