Enterprise Information Integration
Enterprise information integration (EII), is the ability to support a unified view of data and information for an entire organization. In a data virtualization application of EII, a process of information integration, using data abstraction to provide a unified interface (known as uniform data access) for viewing all the data within an organization, and a single set of structures and naming conventions (known as uniform information representation) to represent this data; the goal of EII is to get a large set of heterogeneous data sources to appear to a user or system as a single, homogeneous data source.
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He led his regiment from behind— He found it less exciting.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
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—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
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