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Data Integration &
Engineering

Data engineering involves designing and building pipelines that transport data from various sources to a destination where it can be used effectively. These pipelines also clean, validate, and format the data, ensuring it is ready for analysis or machine learning. Data integration, a subset of data engineering, focuses on merging data from different sources into a single, unified view, making it easier to see the big picture.

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Data Engineering & Data Integration•

AUTHOR – BRAM VANHEES

Increased efficiency and high-level accuracy

These techniques address challenges associated with data scattered across different systems, stored in different formats, or using multiple standards. The primary benefits are increased efficiency and high-level accuracy. With robust data engineering and integration, we assure you that you can make better decisions more quickly and with fewer errors. Data engineering and data integration are both crucial fields in the realm of data management, but they serve different purposes and involve distinct processes.

Data Engineering

Data engineering focuses on preparing and making data usable for analytical purposes. It encompasses the entire lifecycle of data, from collection and storage to analysis and intelligent archiving. Data engineers are responsible for the architecture that supports data collection, storage, processing, and analysis. Their work enables end-users to combine data from various sources as needed, facilitating advanced analytics and informed decision-making.

Data integration ensures that data is accurate and consistent, ready for data engineers to build systems that support data analysis and business intelligence workflows.

Data Integration

Data integration, a subset of data engineering, focuses on collecting and combining data from various sources into a cohesive and usable format. This process involves ingesting, transforming, and integrating both structured and unstructured data, and then delivering it to a data warehouse. It utilizes ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tools and methodologies to consolidate data from different sources into a single data warehouse. The goal is to create meaningful and valuable information from disparate data sources while ensuring data quality, governance, and compliance.