Building a data integration team: skills, requirements, and solutions for designing integrations

"Find the right people with the right skills. This book clarifies best practices for creating high-functioning data integration teams, enabling you to understand the skills and requirements, documents, and solutions for planning, designing, and monitoring both one-time migration and daily integration systems. The growth of data is exploding. With multiple sources of information constantly arriving across enterprise systems, combining these systems into a single, cohesive, and documentable unit has become more important than ever. But the approach toward integration is much different than in other software disciplines, requiring the ability to code, collaborate, and disentangle complex business rules into a scalable model. Data migrations and integrations can be complicated. In many cases, project teams save the actual migration for the last weekend of the project, and any issues can lead to missed deadlines or, at worst, corrupted data that needs to be reconciled post-deployment. This book details how to plan strategically to avoid these last-minute risks as well as how to build the right solutions for future integration projects. What You Will Learn: Understand the "language" of integrations and how they relate in terms of priority and ownership Create valuable documents that lead your team from discovery to deployment Research the most important integration tools in the market today Monitor your error logs and see how the output increases the cycle of continuous improvement Market across the enterprise to provide valuable integration solutions" --Amazon.com.

Includes index.

Chapter 1: Integration Background -- Chapter 2: Key Terms -- Chapter 3: Team Qualifications -- Chapter 4: Finding Your Purpose: Project Deliverables -- Chapter 5: Choosing an ETL Tool -- Chapter 6: A Sample ETL Project -- Chapter 7: Platform Automation -- Chapter 8: Monitoring Results.-Chapter 9: Marketing Your Team -- Appendix A: Data Migration Strategy Plan -- Appendix B: Data Profiling Template -- Appendix C: Issue Log Template -- Appendix D: Source to Target Mapping Template -- Appendix E: Data Migration Process Flow Design Template -- Appendix E: Migration Results Report Template.