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Technology - Extraction, Transformation & Loading Vs. Enterprise Application Integration

Extraction, Transformation & Loading Vs. Enterprise Application Integration

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Over recent years, business enterprises relying on accurate and consistent data to make informed decisions have been gravitating towards integration technologies. The subject of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Extraction, Transformation & Loading (ETL) lately seems to pop up in most Enterprise Information Management conversations. From an architectural perspective, both techniques share a striking similarity. However, they essentially serve different purposes when it comes to information management. We’ve decided to do a little bit of research and establish the differences between the two integration technologies. Enterprise Application Integration Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is an integration framework that consists of technologies

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Technology – Personas Vs. Roles – What Is The Difference?

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Personas and roles are user modeling approaches that are applied in the early stages of system development or redesign. They drive the design decision and allows programmers and designers to place everyday user needs at the forefront of their system development journey in a user-centered design approach. Personas and user roles help improve the quality of user experience when working with products that require a significant amount of user interaction. But there is a distinct difference between technology personas vs. roles. What then exactly is a persona? What are user roles in system development? And, how does persona differ from

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Technology – A 720-Degree View of the Customer

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The 360-degree view of the consumer is a well-explored concept, but it is not adequate in the digital age. Every firm, whether it is Google or Amazon, is deploying tools to understand customers in a bid to serve them better. A 360-degree view demanded that a company consults its internal data to segment customers and create marketing strategies. It has become imperative for companies to look outside their channels, to platforms like social media and reviews to gain insight into the motivations of their customers. The 720-degree view of the customer is further discussed below. What is the 720-degree view

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What is a Private Cloud?

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The private cloud concept is running the cloud software architecture and, possibly specialized hardware, within a companies’ own facilities and support by the customer’s own employees, rather than having it hosted from a data center operated by commercial providers like Amazon, IBM Microsoft, or Oracle. A companies’ private (internal) cloud may be a one or more of these patterns and may be part of a larger hybrid-cloud strategy. Home-Grown, where the company has built its own software and or hardware could infrastructure where the private could is managed entirely by the companies’ resources.  Commercial-Off-The-Self (COTS), where the cloud software and

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What is cloud computing? 

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Cloud computing is a service driven model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on demand network access to a shared pool computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal administrative effort or service provider interaction. Related References A Road Map For Migrating To A Public Cloud Public Cloud Versus Private Cloud Major Cloud Computing Models Big Data vs. Virtualization

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Public Cloud Versus Private Cloud

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A public cloud strategy refers to a situation where you utilize cloud resources on a shared platform. Examples of shared or public cloud solutions include Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google cloud. There are several benefits associated with cloud solutions. On the other hand, a private cloud strategy refers to a situation where you can decide to have an infrastructure which is dedicated to serving your business. It is sometimes referred to as homegrown where you employ experts to run the services so that your business can access different features. There are several advantages of using a public cloud

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