Data Discovery & Mapping

The Challenge

"Data discovery and integration steps take between 50% and 80% of any business intelligence effort… and are where many initiatives fail.” - Forrester Research

Data discovery and mapping are critical to any data integration effort. Yet, these functions rely heavily on the availability of subject matter experts (SME) and/or tools that are not designed with the integration process in mind. As a result, the overall process is typically:

  • Time-consuming, costly and error prone;
  • Limited by what humans can accomplish on their own (ie, field-by-field, source-by-source mapping, which requires an iterative process); and
  • Incomplete - as implicit relationships are often missed and undiscoved without deep analysis.


    • The Solution

    Sypherlink Harvester enables organizations to quickly discover their critical data and its key attributes, and automatically determine how data sources and fields relate to each other.