Anyone who has combined the power of data integration and automation can tell you that it’s a game changer. Understanding how data integration and automation work with each other is key to improving your organization’s workflow processes and success.
Enhance your business by understanding data integration and automation
Data integration provides the data access your organization needs for people to do their jobs. It can alleviate access issues among various sources and prevent siloed information among departments when used effectively.
Data automation utilizes data often brought over through data integration to automate tasks. When tasks are automated, employees’ time can be freed up to do other important tasks and strategize.
Traditional vs. virtual integration
There are two main types of data integration: traditional and virtual.
SmartConnect, our traditional integration tool, easily transfers data from one system to another.
Virtual integration tools, like Popdock, don’t physically transfer data from one system to another. It allows data to be viewable and actionable in other systems than where the data is housed.
Data automation harnesses the power of data integration
For data automation to happen, data integration often must happen first.
Traditional and virtual data integration types combine and present data from multiple sources into a singular, unified view.
Thanks to data integration, data automation can effectively utilize data, streamline the process, reduce regular, repetitive, labor-intensive tasks for workers, and minimize human error and cost. By reducing manual tasks, data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) can soar in efficiency across various systems.
Data automation for integrating data
You can also set up data automation to automatically integrate data on an ongoing basis. This ensures that all data is accurate and up-to-date.
Benefits and features of data integration and automation
There is a growing number of benefits and features included in effective data integration and automation tools. The list is long and continues to grow, but here are a few highlights on what data integration and automation tools can improve for your organization.
Benefits of data integration and automation include:
Better quality and up-to-date data:
Data integration and automation reduces human error and helps clean up your data and validation processes. By setting up automated integrations, you can consistently have accurate, up-to-date data to use for insights.
Enhanced efficiency:
Automation was created to make life more efficient, and that’s exactly what it does for your business. When repetitive, monotonous tasks are taken off your plate, you have more time to strategize and take on other projects. Automation saves time, money, and resources.
Faster data analysis:
After data has been integrated, you can view clean, accurate data. When data automation is set in place to make reports, data analysis and insights offer your business a better path toward success.
More informed decisions:
When you’re able to combine data from various sources and view the entire picture of how your business operates, you can gain better insights and make more informed decisions.
Key features of data integration and automation include:
Combining data from multiple sources
Whether it’s from databases, applications, or external sources, with data integration, you can pull and combine data from different systems into a unified view.
Data transformation:
With data integration and automation, you can clean, manipulate, and work with data. This makes data consistent and compatible with whatever system in which you want to work.
Automation tools:
Skip the monotonous, repetitive, manual tasks. Data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) can all be done through data automation by using the right software tools. This not only takes the work off your plate, but it helps streamline work processes and minimizes human error.
Data quality:
You can ensure your data is consistent, clean, and accurate before utilizing it through automation tools.
Ready to learn how you can integrate data automation?
Tools like SmartConnect and Popdock for data integration and automation provide real-time, accurate insights and can handle large datasets and complicated processes, helping your business increase efficiency and accuracy.
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To learn more about SmartConnect and Popdock and how these tools can help your team integrate, automate, maximize efficiency, accuracy, reporting, and more, contact eOne Solutions sales team at sales@eonesolutions.com or 888-319-3663 ext. 1.