One of the common challenges facing IT organizations today is to provide a consistent version of organization data across all systems.
This challenge extends to our drupal projects when we need to exchange data with legacy enterprise resource systems, on a secure and structured way.
Examples on this scenario would be product catalog and order synchronization,bulk client migrations on drupal commerce sites.
In this session, we'll introduce you to a series of data integration tools for your Drupal projects:
- Feeds, the most popular data import/export module suite
- Pentaho Data Integration an open source suite that comes with data extract, transform and load (ETL) capabilities, a graphical design environment, and an open and standards-based architecture.
- Drupal Commerce, a commerce framework in Drupal. See also pcambra´s session for an introduction: http://bit.ly/Nzw7Or
We'll present you first-hand experiences that will help open a friendly discussion of this approach over proprietary and homegrown data integration tools.
There are no stand-alone solutions. It's drupal, so be water my friend.
