Four Mistakes Enterprise IT Makes with Cloud Data Integration
August 26, 2014
Grazed from IT BusinessEdge. Author: Loraine Lawson.
Software as a Service (SaaS) is nice and all, according to 92 percent of the 350 IT executives surveyed conducted by Dimensional Research, but it would be much better if integration weren’t such a concern, the respondents said, according to an Integration Developer News report.
“The ability to avoid SaaS silos and easily obtain consistent data integration and data quality across on-premise and cloud-based data is definitely a top concern among those IT decision makers we surveyed,” Richard Broome, CIO of Host Analytics, told IDN. Overall, 88 percent reported “challenges” with SaaS business applications and 67 percent specifically cited data integration problems…
Host Analytics, a BI vendor, sponsored the survey so IT leaders were also asked about BI’s potential role in solving the integration pain points. Most, 74 percent, said they thought having SaaS application data in a common BI solution would add value…
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