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Building a Data Integration Team

Skills, Requirements, and Solutions for Designing Integrations

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  • Other technical guides focus on the use of a specific integration tool (ETL, scripting) rather than the actual framework itself—this book offers a strong foundation for promoting these tools and enhancing teamwork

  • Educate business users on the nuances behind assigning the right staff to the right tasks

  • Design the integration team with a strategic approach from the outset of a project rather than a last-minute afterthought

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxx
  2. Integration Background

    • Jarrett Goldfedder
    Pages 1-12
  3. Key Terms

    • Jarrett Goldfedder
    Pages 13-25
  4. Team Qualifications

    • Jarrett Goldfedder
    Pages 27-48
  5. Finding Your Purpose: Project Deliverables

    • Jarrett Goldfedder
    Pages 49-73
  6. Choosing an ETL Tool

    • Jarrett Goldfedder
    Pages 75-101
  7. A Sample ETL Project

    • Jarrett Goldfedder
    Pages 103-126
  8. Platform Automation

    • Jarrett Goldfedder
    Pages 127-162
  9. Monitoring Results

    • Jarrett Goldfedder
    Pages 163-186
  10. Marketing Your Team

    • Jarrett Goldfedder
    Pages 187-206
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 207-237

About this book

Find the right people with the right skills. This book clarifies best practices for creating high-functioning data integration teams, enabling you to understand the skills and requirements, documents, and solutions for planning, designing, and monitoring both one-time migration and daily integration systems.

The growth of data is exploding. With multiple sources of information constantly arriving across enterprise systems, combining these systems into a single, cohesive, and documentable unit has become more important than ever. But the approach toward integration is much different than in other software disciplines, requiring the ability to code, collaborate, and disentangle complex business rules into a scalable model. 

Data migrations and integrations can be complicated. In many cases, project teams save the actual migration for the last weekend of the project, and any issues can lead to missed deadlines or, at worst, corrupted data that needs to be reconciled post-deployment. This book details how to plan strategically to avoid these last-minute risks as well as how to build the right solutions for future integration projects.


What You Will Learn

  • Understand the “language” of integrations and how they relate in terms of priority and ownership
  • Create valuable documents that lead your team from discovery to deployment
  • Research the most important integration tools in the market today
  • Monitor your error logs and see how the output increases the cycle of continuous improvement
  • Market across the enterprise to provide valuable integration solutions


Who This Book Is For

The executive and integration team leaders who are building the corresponding practice. It is also for integration architects, developers, and business analysts who need additional familiarity with ETL tools, integration processes, and associated project deliverables.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Vienna, USA

    Jarrett Goldfedder

About the author

Jarrett Goldfedder is the founder of InfoThoughts Data, LLC, a company that specializes in data management, migration, and automation. He has significant experience in both cloud-based and on-premise technologies and holds various certificates in Salesforce Administration, Dell Boomi Architecture, and Informatica Cloud Data. He also served as a technical reviewer of the Apress book by David Masri titled Developing Data Migrations and Integrations with Salesforce: Patterns and Best Practices.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Building a Data Integration Team

  • Book Subtitle: Skills, Requirements, and Solutions for Designing Integrations

  • Authors: Jarrett Goldfedder

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5653-4

  • Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA

  • eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books

  • Copyright Information: Jarrett Goldfedder 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-5652-7Published: 28 February 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-5653-4Published: 27 February 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXX, 237

  • Number of Illustrations: 87 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Computer Applications

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access