Integración de fuentes de datos heterogéneas: aplicando tecnologías semánticas y un bus de servicio empresarial

Abstract

Organizations now have different information systems to support their business model. Generally the incorporation of these systems has been carried out without following a rigorous process to determine the interoperability with the pre existing systems, on the other hand the appearance of new technologies have taken to adopt different software platforms what has caused that they have islands of information within the same organization. In this environment, organizations are limited to data mining, process integration, as well as the production of knowledge and information for decision making. Information Technologyes departments remain focused on maintenance and support tasks, or on the construction of point-to-point integration mechanisms, leaving aside their mission of supporting business strategy.

It is common to find computer systems that operate autonomously, this implies that many processes are decoupled and the extraction of information becomes a real challenge since the transfer of data between applications is done using scripts, text files and in some cases manually which implies loss of time, risk of inconsistent data.

Based on the described problem, the main contribution of this work is to propose an integration model using Semantic Technologies and Enterprise Service Bus, which allows a unified view of data sources in all transactional and query operations.