The Data Integration Toolkit

Data integration is a critical problem for many enterprises today. The volume, variety and velocity of enterprise data has increased dramatically in recent years. There have been big developments in data processing technology. Together, these trends pose major challenges to enterprise and solution architects faced with requirements to integrate data. The Open Group recently conducted a survey of enterprise architects in order to understand these challenges. With over 600 responses, its results provide reliable insights and are a solid basis for planning future standards work.

Dr. Chris Harding, founder and principal of Lacibus Ltd. He formed the company to provide services based on virtual data lakes and data-centered architecture. Virtual data lakes enable applications to connect to data sources and mix-and- match the data. They provide fine-grained access control so that the owners of the data can control its use. They enable data-centered architecture of IT systems. Chris developed the ideas that led to the formation of the company while working as Director of the Open Platform 3.0 Forum of The Open Group.

Ron Schuldt is Manager of Data-Harmonizing, LLC, providing data integration training and consulting services. He is Chairman of The Open Group Semantic Interoperability Work Group which is responsible for The Open Group's Open Data Element Framework (O-DEF) standard. He is retired from Lockheed Martin where he has over twenty-eight years of experience as a systems engineer working systems design and integration.