What Is Your Strategy for Data Virtualization? | Virtualization Journal

What Is Your Strategy for Data Virtualization?
— Data virtualization is a versatile data integration solution that can be deployed to solve a wide range of data integration challenges. Based on nearly ten years of successful implementations, several common usage patterns have emerged to help guide your enterprise’s data virtualization adoption strategy.
Historically, BI data federation has been the most popular data virtualization starting point. Data virtualization is an excellent way to expand BI reporting to sources beyond the existing cubes or data marts. Popular BI vendors such as IBM Cognos and SAP Business Objects have promoted this approach and even embedded data virtualization offerings in their BI solutions to simplify this method of adoption. The benefits of this approach include both more complete and actionable information and faster time-to-solution.