Data Integration: It’s not a Technological Challenge, but a Semantic Adventure

Often, our fascination with technology leads us to focus on the details of our work rather than its essence; we risk seeing technology not as a means to an end but as the goal, and this is especially true when we talk about data integration.

To better appreciate the purpose of data integration, we must remind ourselves that the goal of doing so is the digital representation of phenomena in the physical world, a world that we must observe in order to understand, because without understanding, any decisions we make will be intrinsically uncertain.

Representation is also a lever for sharing, because every individual representation is always a choral action, in that each individual’s private vision must harmonize with the corporate vision, and each organization, though it serves a set of common goals, must necessarily consider the different points of view of its individual members.

Read more in https://www.datavirtualizationblog.com. Originally published on February 15, 2024.