Forecast
According to Gartner (Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, 2014), the data integration software market will reach $3.6 billion by 2018 - up from $2.2 billion in 2013 (This is about 64% growth within 5 years.)
Challenges
Looking at this growing area, the most important challenges include:
- Real-time delivery
- Rapidly increasing volume of data
- Demands for new datatypes and more data sources
- Expanding global integration
Tools and Methodologies
The new tools and methodologies include:
- Real-time data integration
- Data virtualization
- Complex Event processing