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Enterprise Information Integration: A Pragmatic Approach

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Real world IT managers are usually faced with a mish-mash of new and old systems, tight budgets, and demanding customers. "Rip and replace" solutions are often neither possible nor desirable.

JP's work provides an easily digestible roadmap that shows how IT decision makers can leverage existing corporate information assets in building surprisingly new and powerful functionality. Starting with the importance of understanding data, Enterprise Information Integration provides useful insights into how emerging technologies and practices such as SOA can build "composite" applications merging what-already-works with what-is-needed.

The book is well organized and written. It's also a useful communications tool that IT managers can use to explain these concepts to senior corporate executives.

Dan Grosz
Director of Technology
VIP Parts, Tires, & Service

This book bridges the gap between management summary/overviews and tutorial/how-to books. It starts out with an introduction to the basic concepts and differences between EAI, EII and ETL. The book later explores issues associated with the "single view of the customer" problem and metdata management. The book includes several case studies and ends with a step-by-step review of how a model driven approach could be utilized to address a classical EII problem. Highly recommended.