Data Integration does have a Purpose Built Solution!
When you're like me, you have tons of experience in the beautiful world of Data Management and Data Governance. Perhaps even in demanding enterprise organizations that carry the burden of many compliance regulations. You know that it is easy to start up a project but as time progresses, it becomes more and more difficult to keep up with all the governance and traceability requirements that keep the organization from being fined by regulators.
You've come across all of the potential solutions:
- Traditional Data Warehousing;
- Data Lake approaches;
- Best of breed self-built integrations.
I'll bet however, you haven't yet had the pleasure of working with a Purpose Built Solution that takes all the hard work out of your work...
This is where I'm amazed by the shocking simplicity of working with the MarkLogic Data Hub. You know, I've worked with them all: MongoDB, Cassandra, Hadoop even relational databases, but in the end... They are just that... Databases. Mechanisms to store data and that's it.
Now fast forward to the 21th century where enterprises start to realize that they need more from their data landscape:
- They need traceability to keep control of provenance and lineage and how information flows through the organization so they can use that for auditing and regulations;
- They need data centric security so that the data knows what it can be used for and for whom;
- They need data redaction to allow for easy data sharing between business units and external organizations;
- They need data to be nicely catalogued using metadata so that data analysts and data analytics teams understand the data and don't have to guess about it's meaning;
- They need an agile environment that allows for no, low and full-code harmonizations from upstream source data to meaningful business entities like Customers, Orders or Contracts;
- They need a simple way to solve Master Data problems based on factual data, unlike the megalomaneous programs that we have come to know from the current MDM providers.
All of this and much more is available by default in the MarkLogic Data Hub.
Yes, that is correct, no need for a painful exercise of trying to get Data Management and Data Governance right while years go by and millions are spent!
And then there is even more because the Data Hub also supports all the must-have modern techy stuff like:
- Integrated NoSQL data storage (native JSON, XML);
- Integrated Graph store (allowing for SPARQL queries);
- Integrated Search engine (allowing for structured, unstructured and Google-like queries);
- Integrated App server (allowing for server-side processing of data);
- Integrated REST extensibility (allowing for interfacing with everything);
- Integrated ODBC interface (allowing for easy BI integrations);
So, people, please, please, please stop spending your life and money on systems that have not been built from the ground up to solve your Data Integration problems!
Instead just turn to a purpose built solution that has been proven and does it all for you. This means you can get business value out of it quickly and be successful!
