Data Integration

Almost every major business initiative results in a new IT system requiring data to be taken from existing systems which were originally designed for an entirely different purpose.

Data Integration accounts for 60% to 80% of the overall implementation effort for the new system. Incredibly, only 1 in 10 projects manage to deliver to time and budget.

Overspend is typically 66% more than the budget, and a third of projects are actually cancelled long after the project deadline and budget have expired. The massive increase in planned project costs are usually dwarfed by the cost of lost business opportunity.

X88 Pandora is a unique technology that automates the Data Integration design process by allowing people who understand the data to create fully working and validated prototypes of their Data Integration processes with no technical skills.

The result is to bring forward acceptance test prior to build with a 100% validated build specification and a complete set of full-volume test data derived from the actual source systems.

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Reasons why Data Integration Projects fail

• Lack of understanding of the existing data due to constant business change
• Data Integration design is a manual, paper-based task and cannot be validated
• Lack of time in analysis and design results in many assumptions
• Difficult to validate that the implementation matches the requirements
• Issues are found during user testing, when remediation is at its most expensive
• People who understand the data cannot build data integration processes
• People who build data integration processes do not understand the data
• Data Integration build is repeated up to 10 times due to design errors

Using X88 Pandora ensures all Data Integration designs are right first time.