As these trends move forward, they will drive many corporations toward an impending crisis of data integration scalability. In this article, I examine these trends as well as the technologies and IT practices that can help you prepare for a possible data integration crisis. The greatest challenge to data integration scalability is the explosion of data volume that almost all companies are currently experiencing. But similar challenges come from escalating numbers of transactions, applications, and users. Burgeoning data volumes.
Many corporations already move gigabytes of data daily.
As companies operate more and more like e-businesses over the next few years, the daily volume of data movement will increase to hundreds of gigabytes, pushing the scalability of data integration technologies to their limits. More transactions online. The most dramatic increase, however, concerns B2B trade. Dollar value aside, the number of transactions will increase correspondingly. Because B2B online transactions typically rely on data integration technology, scalability will be an important issue.