Data federation is a relatively new form of data integration, but it has achieved a significant role in today’s data management strategies. Data federation allows data integration teams to quickly create virtually integrated sets of data for many purposes—business intelligence (BI), customer relationship management (CRM), master data management (MDM), and so on.
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