enterprise information integration. The process of integrating structured and unstructured information sources into a unified information source.

Enterprise Information Integration. An integration technology that pulls and combines data from multiple systems “real time”, without storing it on a disk (“on the fly” transformation), creating a “virtual” data warehouse; eliminating the need to store or move data.

enterprise information integration. refers to software systems that can take data from a variety of internal or external sources and in different formats and treat them as a singe data source. Same idea has been around under a variety of other names like federated data management or federated query systems; see website ( http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/businessintelligence/story/0,10801,104683,00.html)

Enterprise Information Integration. A collection of technologies and best practices for providing custom views into multiple data sources as a way of integrating data and content for real-time read and write access by applications.

The aggregation of data and coordination of transactions across enterprise data sources.

Architecture where federated queries are used to create an integrated view over many databases.