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What is Data Integration?
Data integration is the process of providing a single, unified view of information by combining data that resides in different sources. The process of data integration involves a set of practices, tools, and architectural procedures.
Data integration has become a business imperative as organizations see competitive advantage in data quality, data governance, data modeling, and the challenges of isolated or siloed data. The extract, transform, load (ETL) process is a commonly used data integration model.
SAP offers a suite of data integration tools. These tools are available on premise or in the cloud and cover a variety of different use cases. Data integration tools provided by SAP include SAP Data Services, SAP Cloud Platform Integration for data services, SAP HANA smart data integration, SAP Cloud Platform smart data integration, SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server, and SAP Data Hub.
Vendors like Qlik, Quickbase, Stonebranch, Boomi, and TIBCO provide data integration capabilities for SAP customers.
What is Data Integration?
Data integration is the process of providing a single, unified view of information by combining data that resides in different sources. The process of data integration involves a set of practices, tools, and architectural procedures.
Data integration has become a business imperative as organizations see competitive advantage in data quality, data governance, data modeling, and the challenges of isolated or siloed data. The extract, transform, load (ETL) process is a commonly used data integration model.
SAP offers a suite of data integration tools. These tools are available on premise or in the cloud and cover a variety of different use cases. Data integration tools provided by SAP include SAP Data Services, SAP Cloud Platform Integration for data services, SAP HANA smart data integration, SAP Cloud Platform smart data integration, SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server, and SAP Data Hub.
Vendors like Qlik, Quickbase, Stonebranch, Boomi, and TIBCO provide data integration capabilities for SAP customers.
Benefits of Data Integration
In addition to consolidating information, data integration can also ensure that the data is clean, accurate, and enhanced for business use. It is also an important component to any effective data management strategy, and can help companies optimize analytics, ensure consistency between operational applications, share data outside of the organization, coordinate data services, and support data migration and consolidation.
Key Data Integration Considerations for SAPinsiders
- Include end users in decisions about data integration. TIBCO’s Senior Solution Engineer Iain Harfield explains that while the primary decision makers for integration strategies are often those in charge of lines of business with enterprise architects driving the implementation strategy, end users also play a pivotal role in building our an integration strategy. “…not including them in the process can put an organization at risk of providing solutions that fall short of addressing business challenges,” Harfield says.
- Blend SAP ERP data with non-SAP source data. SAPinsider’s 2021 integration research revealed that 90% of respondents need to integrate non-SAP data with their SAP data. In an SAPinsider thought leadership article, Qlik’s Vice President of SAP Business Matthew Hayes discusses the endless ways a business can benefit from integrating SAP ERP data with non-SAP source data. “The irony is that SAP data becomes more valuable if you expand it with related data from other sources,” Hayes says.
- Deploy data lakes and data warehouses in the cloud. SAPinsider’s Data Management and Data Warehousing in Cloud Benchmark Report found that deploying data in a hybrid model was a popular choice for analytics, ERP, and supply chain data. To mitigate the challenge a hybrid model can pose from an integration standpoint, SAPinsider recommends that integration be achieved, in part, by moving data into a centralized cloud data lake or data warehouse.
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Managing Data with SAP Solutions: SAP HANA and non-HANA Use CasesDec 21, 2017 — See some examples of integration solutions based on SAP-provided replication tools that you can use to integrate SAP and non-SAP applications. The tools support a wide variety of data types (structured and unstructured) and formats (including data streams). Key Concept The new SAP HANA replication and consolidation capabilities can simplify the architecture of the solution […]
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SAP’s Integration Solution Advisory Methodology (ISA-M) for the Intelligent EnterpriseNov 21, 2019 — by Matthias Allgaier, SAP SE A solid integration strategy is crucial for providing the flexibility and agility organizations require to meet rapidly changing business needs. When building this strategy, enterprise architects must take into account a variety of pervasive integration requirements. For example, leveraging intelligent technologies to advance business outcomes — becoming an Intelligent Enterprise, […]
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Boomi World 2025 is “Unlimited”May 15, 2025 — Steve Lucas, CEO of Boomi, introduced the 'unlimited' theme at Boomi World 2025, emphasizing the significance of AI in organizational transformation and the evolution from integration to orchestration, while unveiling new tools for AI agent management and announcing the acquisition of the managed file transfer platform Thru.
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Precog Delivers Analytics-Ready Data — from EverywhereSep 8, 2023 — Data is essential for companies that want to work in a forward-thinking way, as organizations need information to power their analytics. However, many organizations struggle with data management. Most organizations surveyed in SAPinsider’s 2023 SAP Data Management Strategies Research Report said that their data management strategy meets their requirements either only partially, slightly, or did not at all meet their data requirements.
To address the data issues that many organizations face, innovative solutions provider Precog created a platform which automates the extraction and loading of API data sources. The platform leverages an AI based approach to automatically generate analytics-ready tables, endpoints, schemas, primary keys and much more needed for the automation of API data flows for analytics.
In this article, we will examine the benefits of Precog’s platform, and highlight some of the essential data management issues that it helps to address.
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Data Sheet: CCH Tagetik – SAP IntegrationJul 1, 2020 — Discover how when you combine CCH Tagetik with SAP, you can have it all: intuitive, fast, accurate and easy-to-use CPM that addresses the needs of both Finance and IT. Find other insightful content from Wolters Kluwer | CCH Tagetik on their Vendor Showcase
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Lay The Foundation With A Flexible Data Infrastructure For AINov 12, 2025 — AI is reshaping enterprise data environments, necessitating scalable, high-performance infrastructure capable of seamless hybrid integration to support demanding AI workloads while ensuring energy efficiency, security, and governance.
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Unlock Data’s Value in SAP Integration ProgramsDec 8, 2021 — SAP system integrations go beyond SAP – 90% of organizations support non-SAP to SAP integration, while only 78% perform SAP to SAP integration, according to SAPinsider research. This means that when defining a data integration strategy, organizations need to prepare to work with data in both their SAP systems and non-SAP systems.
Unlocking the full value of data in SAP system integrations does not necessarily mean transitioning it from one system to the next. An intelligent API-led approach can bring everything into view on a single platform.
Additionally, machine learning drives deeper insights and business agility, the primary drivers for SAP integration. For example, organizations can train a machine learning application to understand the errors in data and improve quality amid SAP technology transitions.
SAP customers often struggle with integrating their SAP data, applications, and processes. Poor data is a foundational problem, but equally important is access to the data. Data quality is another issue in the transition from one system to another.
"By bringing everything into a single platform and intelligently unifying the data through data management tools, an organization can get a single trusted view of the data, and by extension, its entire business," says Iain Harfield, Senior Solution Engineer at TIBCO.
In this Technology Insight, SAPinsider’s Vice President of Research Robert Holland talks with Harfield to discuss:
- What organizations need to consider as they build out their SAP integration strategies.
- The primary business drivers for SAP integration and the role that business leaders, architects, and users have in setting the SAP integration strategy.
- Implementing a strategy that provides a better IT landscape and allows for better connectivity of applications, application data, and business.
- TIBCO’s Connected Intelligence platform, which is built on three critical pillars of capability – customer intimacy, operational excellence, and business reinvention.
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