An edge data integration is an implementation of

data integration Data integration involves combining data residing in different sources and providing users with a unified view of them. This process becomes significant in a variety of situations, which include both commercial (such as when two similar companies ...

technology undertaken in an ad hoc or tactical fashion. This is also sometimes referred to as point-to-point integration because it connects two types of data directly to serve a narrow purpose. Many edge integrations, and actually the vast majority of all data integration, involves hand-coded scripts. Some may take the form of

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(web application hybrids),

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s, or other browser-based models that take advantage of

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technologies to combine data in a Web browser. Examples of edge data integration projects might be: * extracting a list of customers from a host

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application and writing the results to an

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spreadsheet * creating a script-driven framework for managing

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feeds * combining data from a weather Web site, a shipping company's Web site, and a company's internal logistics database to track shipments and estimated arrival times of packages It has been claimed that edge data integration do not typically require large budgets and centrally managed technologies, which is in contrast to a core data integration.

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