The process of combining or linking two or more data sets from various sources to facilitate data sharing, promote effective data gathering and communication, and support overall information management activities in an organization.
The combination of databases or data files from different functional units of an organization or from different organizations that collect information about the same entities (such as properties, census tracts, street segments). In combining the data, added intelligence is derived.
The process of combining two or more data sets together for sharing and analysis, in order to support information management inside a business.