Aligning your business goals with IT is essential for your organization to succeed. Data architectures are designed to streamline business activity, and they and the business can evolve to the point that business is hindered, rather than helped. A company's product delivery, customer satisfaction and financial performance can suffer because of outmodeled data architecture.

For most companies, data architecture develops in stages. Often it is the sum total of minor, incremental changes made during a series of specific data integration projects. Unfortunately, many data integration projects can constrain data architecture instead of enhance it.

Read this paper to learn how you can maintain control of your company's data architectures to help meet business objectives. This paper details the relationship between data integration projects and data architecture concepts and practices. Highlighted topics include:

• How business and IT development processes that direct and leverage data integration projects depend on tooling
• Breakthrough methods in which data architects, business analysts, programmers and business users can collaborate to address their organization's pressing business challenges
• And much more.