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A new report from Philip Russom, senior manager for TDWI Research, breaks the hard problem of data integration (DI) down into an easily-digestible checklist of ten DI recommended practices. The report, Top Ten Best Practices for Data Integration, is available for free download.

At the top of Russom's list: the importance of recognizing (and understanding) DI diversity. It might seem obvious, but -- in an industry where ETL is still used interchangeably with DI and deduplication is synonymous with data quality (DQ) -- it doesn't get said often enough.

The city of Indianapolis and Marion County have embarked on a $16 million technology overhaul designed to improve business processes, standardize technology and drive down costs.

Under the planned three-year effort, the city will replace its ancient mainframe-based backoffice systems with technology based on Oracle Corp.'s PeopleSoft enterprise resource planning suite.