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3 Strategies to Make Data Integration Easier in Your Data Warehouse
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The hardest part about building a data warehouse isn’t getting data into it... It’s integrating and modeling that data to create a single source of truth. Anyone can pull data from multiple sources, but the real challenge is fitting it in to a data model. When you have different ways data can be generated and historical data from legacy systems that need to fit into a unified source of truth, not everything aligns seamlessly. However, there are a few strategies you can use to make integration easier:
TL;DR: Integration is tough, but modularizing your integration steps can make the process 100x easier. All the Best, Tucker |
Tucker Fischer | Axle Digital Solutions
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