Data integration is the extraction, transformation and loading of data from disparate systems into a data warehouse or data mart for the purposes of manipulation and reporting. Data integration has traditionally focused on manipulating and analyzing historical data, either to detect trends or to support "what-if" queries by adjusting some of the values.
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