Enterprise Information Integration: Successes, Challenges and Controversies

Summary: Enterprise Information Integration (EII) enables uniform access to heterogeneous sources without ETL. Industry-authored survey of EII products since the 1990s documents successes, challenges, and controversies, with implications for data integration research. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hfc0ff919a216c503
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 7.0295581e-05
Overall Rank: 3,754 | 74.84%
DOI: 10.1145/1066157.1066246

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Alon Y. Halevy (Transformic Inc.; University of Washington)
2. Naveen Ashish (NASA)
3. Dina Bitton (Callixa)
4. Michael Carey (BEA Systems)
5. Denise Draper (Microsoft)
6. Jeff Pollock (Network Inference)
7. Arnon Rosenthal (MITRE Corporation)
8. Vishal Sikka (SAP)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{halevy_sigmod05,
        title = {{Enterprise Information Integration: Successes, Challenges and Controversies}},
        author = {Halevy, Alon Y. and Ashish, Naveen and Bitton, Dina and Carey, Michael and Draper, Denise and Pollock, Jeff and Rosenthal, Arnon and Sikka, Vishal},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '05},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1066157.1066246},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1066157.1066246},
        year = {2005}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
718	Data Integration with Uncertainty	2007	VLDB	0.00014507333
795	Model Management 2.0: Manipulating Richer Mappings	2007	SIGMOD	0.00013895182
826	Data Integration: The Teenage Years	2006	VLDB	0.00013599086
4,407	Data Delivery in a Service-Oriented World: The BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform	2006	SIGMOD	6.6022327e-05
5,152	iTrails: Pay-as-you-go Information Integration in Dataspaces	2007	VLDB	6.2375943e-05
6,834	Liquid: Unifying Nearline and Offline Big Data Integration	2015	CIDR	5.6528857e-05
7,739	1,000 Tables Under the From	2009	VLDB	5.4473764e-05
9,140	Delay Aware Querying with Seaweed	2006	VLDB	5.2082006e-05
13,038	A Semantic Information Integration Tool Suite	2006	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
13,070	Data and Metadata Management in Service-Oriented Architectures: Some Open Challenges	2005	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
14,205	Lean Middleware	2005	SIGMOD	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
174	Optimizing Queries across Diverse Data Sources	1997	VLDB	0.00026736308
14,205	Lean Middleware	2005	SIGMOD	-

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