Data Leaders’ Best Practices to Overcoming Key Data Integration Challenges

Data leaders see shared data platforms and low-code environments as cost-effective ways to address a shortage of data integration resources and talent.

Integrating data from multiple source systems is essential for providing company stakeholders with consistent and valuable insights at scale.

However, the sheer variety of data sources that enterprises are processing today makes connecting, aggregating and governing all this data to provide trusted ‘sources of truth’ challenging.

Our research has identified a range of challenges that are impacting the ability of data teams to preserve the integrity of their data as units across their businesses integrate datasets for use in analytics.

Dan Power, MD of Data Governance, Global Markets at State Street, says: “With a technical topic like data integration, technology issues, such as affordability or staffing, or sophistication of the tool, mean the trend is definitely toward low-code/no-code.”