{"id":11860,"date":"2007-03-05T08:56:16","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T07:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.220.58.236\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2007-03-05T08:56:16","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T07:56:16","slug":"data_integration_and_web_mashu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/data_integration_and_web_mashu.html","title":{"rendered":"Data Integration and Web Mashups on Collision Course?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting Techcrunch post on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/03\/02\/5-ways-to-mix-rip-and-mash-your-data\/\">5 Ways to Mix, Rip, and Mash your Data<\/a>&#8220;. It includes Yahoo! pipes that I <a href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/yahoo_pipes_etl_for_the_web.html\">wrote about<\/a> a couple of weeks ago, but also several other ETL-like technologies. <\/p>\n<p>One in particular, called&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.protosw.com\/\">Proto<\/a>, has the ability to mash together local data with information from the web (e.g. &#8220;map my Outlook contacts&#8221;), and the interface and choice of transformations (avoid null values, etc.) is very close to traditional data integration tools (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.protosw.com\/products\/intro-movie\">video<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no reason why this functionality can&#8217;t be offered by the established DI vendors &#8212; how long before one of them&nbsp;decides to purchase one of these vendors?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting Techcrunch post on &#8220;5 Ways to Mix, Rip, and Mash your Data&#8220;. It includes Yahoo! pipes that I wrote about a couple of weeks ago, but also several other ETL-like technologies. One in particular, called&nbsp;Proto, has the ability to mash together local data with information from the web (e.g. &#8220;map my Outlook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[160,161,204,335],"class_list":["post-11860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bi-20","tag-bi","tag-bi-20","tag-business-intelligence","tag-data-integration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-35i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}