Data integration tools are software solutions that facilitate the process of integrating data for organizations and allow individuals to organize and gather data. If a company employs developers, they can initiate data integration through scripts written in Structured Query Language (SQL), which is the programming language for relational databases. However, not all organizations have such specialists at their disposal. That is why ready-made data integration tools exist, assisting different types of companies and helping them quickly gather data from various sources for easier use.
Data integration tools not only initiate the process and provide the required information, but many come with additional benefits. Vendors offer platforms that also provide data replication, data cataloging, data governance, and data quality improvement. The development of technology has introduced cloud-based integration services through integration platform as a service (iPaaS). The additional features of data integration tools make them more beneficial to organizations for integration processes than relying on hand-coded scripts.
According to PeerSpot users, data integration is all about data and governance quality. Our members want to be able to transform, organize, review, and find all sorts of data (including unstructured data, flat files, etc.) quickly and easily. Data integration tools should be customizable with efficient processing, source agnostics, real-time monitoring and debugging, and provide good documentation. Reusability and connectivity were also ranked as important factors.