AI has entered many aspects of data integration, including data mapping. AI data mapping involves smart identification and mapping of data from one place to another. Sometimes, creating data pipelines manually can be important. The process might require complex transformations between the source and target schemas while setting up custom mappings.

Picture this: You are part of a BI team at a global garment manufacturer with dozens of factories, warehouses, and stores worldwide. Your team is tasked with extracting insights from company data. You begin the ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) process but find yourself struggling with the manual effort of understanding table structures and revisiting and modifying pipelines due to ongoing changes in data sources or business requirements.

The year is 1424. You’re shipping goods across the world, and the ship in question gives you a bill of lading. It’s a piece of paper containing details about what your goods are, where you’re shipping them from, and where they’re headed. Fast forward to 2024. You’re shipping your goods across the world, and the shipping company gives you a bill of lading. It’s still (most likely) a piece of paper.

Data pipeline automation plays a central role in integrating and delivering data across systems. The architecture is excellent at handling repetitive, structured tasks, such as extracting, transforming, and loading data in a steady, predictable environment, because the pipelines are built around fixed rules and predefined processes. So, they will continue to work if you maintain the status quo, i.e., as long as your data follows a consistent structure.

Remember the early 2000s, when data was difficult to make sense of? It was like an exclusive domain of a few selected IT experts. Because back then, accessing and understanding data was a monumental task, loaded with delays and complexities. Today, data is a strategic asset for technical experts and business users. This shift is driven by the fact that we need answers NOW.

How are AI governance and data governance related? Better still, what’s more important for an organization to focus on, AI-powered data governance or AI data governance? These are important questions, but before we answer these, let’s understand how AI and data governance are related to each other.

It’s a new world—again. Data today isn’t what it was five or ten years ago, because data volume is doubling every two years. So, how could ETL still be the same? In the early ‘90s, we started storing data in warehouses, and ETL was born out of a need to extract data from these warehouses, transform it as needed, and load it to the destination. This worked well enough for a time, and traditional ETL was able to cater to enterprise data needs efficiently.

EDI stands for electronic data interchange, the automated process of exchanging business documents, such as purchase orders (PO) and invoices, between a company and its trading partners. EDI standards, like ANSI X12 and EDIFACT, ensure that these documents follow a consistent structure, streamlining communication and accelerating transactions.

A cloud database is a database stored and managed on a cloud computing platform, rather than on local or company-owned servers. his setup allows users to access and manage their data remotely, using a range of tools and applications provided by the cloud service. Cloud databases come in various forms, including relational databases, NoSQL databases, and data warehouses.

Imagine a multinational business that deals with multiple suppliers and customers scattered across the globe, each with their own systems and processes. How does it ensure smooth communication and transactions with its business partners? The answer is Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), a standardized method for exchanging electronic documents between businesses.