Gartner defines data integration as the discipline comprising the architectural patterns, methodologies and tools that allow organizations to achieve consistent access and delivery of data across a wide spectrum of data sources and data types to meet the data consumption requirements of business applications and end users. Data integration tools enable organizations to access, integrate, transform, process and move data that spans various endpoints and across any infrastructure to support their data integration use cases. The market for data integration tools includes vendors that offer a stand-alone software product (or products) to enable the construction and implementation of data access and data delivery infrastructure for a variety of data integration use cases.
MDM is a technology-enabled business discipline in which business and IT work together to ensure the uniformity, accuracy, stewardship, governance, semantic consistency and accountability of an enterprise’s official shared master data assets. Master data has the lowest number of consistent and uniform sets of identifiers and attributes that uniquely describe the core entities of the enterprise and are used across multiple business processes.